LONDON’S FARMER BOYS
CARING FOR CITY’S LIVESTOCK. FOUR THOUSAND ACRES BEING * USED. The heart of London is now getting from its own farms hundreds of tons of meat and vegetables a year for the hospitals and other institutions of the Metropolis. . . London’s citizens are the farmers of 4 000 acres, mostly within the Green Belt, and in the midst of the “blitz" area. They owh 1.500 head of pedigree cattle. 3 000 pigs. 7.000 head of poultry and 550 sheep. In the year of the “bltiz” these farms, run by the London County Council, produced more than ever before: 360.000 eggs, 550,000 gallons of milk, 351 tons of meat, 1,608 tons of vegetables and 81 tons of fruit. They are even “digging for victory” in London's famous parks. Two hundred acres are being worked by borough councils for food growing. Sheep graze on 600 acres. And in the centre of London alone / individual Londoners are raising food from their allotments on 450 acres.,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 5
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163LONDON’S FARMER BOYS Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1941, Page 5
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