Farmers' Ingenuity Overcomes Obstacles

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 28 (Supplement)

Farmers' Ingenuity Overcomes Obstacles

Examples of the will to supply whole milk despite tremendous obstacles are apparent all over Taranaki. Two illustrations will suffice to show how sincerely farmers have responded to the appeal to foresake the easier life of the home separator for the labour of handling and transporting whole milk. On the Surrey Road, a farmer has been busy for weeks constructing a miniature viaduct across a deep gully that barred wheel access from his cowshed to the road. When it was a case of taking out cream only, this barrier presented little difficulty, but, faced with the need to move several big cans of 200 gallons, he got to work immediately on his bridge. Having neither the means nor the inclination to let a contract, he felled some tall pine trees, and, with infinite labour, succeeded in swinging these sub-

stantial stringers over the gully. Thus he built his bridge and thus he brings out his daily load of brimming milk cans. Another farmer, also in the Inglewood district, had no all-weather road leading to his cowshed. He could not afford to metal a roadway, but waf inspired by the news from Britain to do something. From various sources he procured the necesary timber to construct a wooden tramline running from his milk stand to his road gate. Then he built a trolly So well has the line been laid that he is able to push the laden trolly unaided to the road and later to return it with its complement of whey. He is on one of the collecting routes of his factory, and therefore has no need to hamess up horses or bring out a lorry in order to complete the journey to the factory.