BACK FROM THE ARMY TO AGRICULTURE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2837, 31 July 1916, Page 10

BACK FROM THE ARMY TO AGRICULTURE

.—* _ Tlio" War Office recently consented to exchange some of the older men who in the early days of tlio war left the farms to join 111 Army for men between the a»cs of 1!) and 110 who are required for service abroad. 'Die War Office and tho Board of Agriculture had agreed that farmers should be left with "One able-budied man to every team of horses, the team to bo the number of horses required lo plough any particular holding—a two-horse.or three-horse team. . "One able-bodie man to every twenty cows in milk, with the assistance of a boy or woman "One able-bodied man to every fifty stall-fed cattle, with similar assistance. "One able-bodied man to every 200 sheep on enclosed land, exclusive of lambs. "One able-bodied man to every SOU sheep on hills." AVhere application is made men of '10 and over will be released who might bo of great use to agriculturists generally. In the early <!ays of the war a larpe number of older men, some of them old soldiers and family men, attracted by the separation allowances, joined the Army. Where those men are serving at Home tlio War Office is prepared lo arrange an exchange for men" between the ages rf 1!) and 30.