"SIDE LINES” ON FARMS
ENGLISH WRITER’S VIEWS From time to time farmers are heard It lay that they are doing this, that tr the other as a bit of a sideline; but, frankly, remarks an English writer, I do not like the word when It Is applied to agriculture, as it augseets something which is not given Bach attention, and it may or may tot turn out satisfactorily, according to circumstances. To mention a speoiflc case, poultry keeping has too long and too often been treated as a mere sideline on many farms, just as if the production “teggs and table birds was something »Mch did not call for serious consid station or much attention. But surely this and similar ideas of sidelines are wrong, and if any crop * worth keeping it becomes a part •f the whole scheme of the farm, and a deserving of as much attention as ay other. There is a good deal to be said for the mixed farmer who hasn't got all his eggs in one basket, but assuming that each branch is worth doing where should be no meetion of any one being treated tnerely as a sideline.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 27
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