THE ENVIED DAIRYMEN(?)

Otaki Mail, 31 January 1923, Page 4

THE ENVIED DAIRYMEN(?)

i PitOITTS OVBiv-fISTIMAT.nI). ■ j When I lie city man reads about tin parijcularlv line animats possessed bv » ; certain fnrmers, tlio record bullerfai • : yields and the remarkable good dairy iug season experienced. lie is apt lo or ten envy the man on the land and tlit 1 - fortune he things the fanner is making j but i lie denizens of the cities are not , acquainted with the losses Hie tanners : experience from time to time, and di not know of the long hours of tedious toil ami the anxieties concerning lln , possible failure of crops. If all these ! facts wre knovf?, to the man in the • town, he would not envy the farmer. “It*s it jolly shame that so mm-ii of j lis e things got into the papi r.-, ’ ’ ;■ aid one farmer llie o 1 tier day when dkriisj; sting the ’ see. so . tlaiitcd by fanner. . Bile went on to say that when a farmer a had u particularly tine cow with a good IbulteiTat record, the news of it is published in tlie papers in glowing terms. “Bui they never tell of the losses.” he continued, “and the man in the I own thinks that the farmers are making tons of money. If these things arc boomed too much it enures the poor innocent beggars who don’t know to get .*a deluded idea of farming.” He also said tliai a city man earning a steady five pounds a week was often enticed on Io a farm under llie delusion that there was a foriune in it. only to »" sadly disappointed. Perhaps, when one thinks ol it. this farmer is right, and the city man should know more the the trials and tr» ddes of the “cookie” who is -n'd to be the backbone of this country. ItoMslim: iii tin hay paddock.- in the summer in the ray.- of a merciless sun and shivering while plodding often knee deep in slush during the wilder, the farmer's life is not an enviable one. With the severe losses and setbacks which come from time to time, ; and w ith the struggle lo pay the interest "ii the heavy mortgages on highpriced land bought in during the boom period, the average farmer is not able to” make the “fortune” v--P : -li the ri'y folk imagine he is accumulating. I