FARM LIFE
Sir-Your article "Microbes or Human Life" set me wondering if Dr. Blair has given ‘thought to community farming as a solution to the farter’s life problem. Would this not give the man on the land the amenities the town dweller enjoys? Country roads would improve, small towns would spring up with schools, theatres, libraries, etc., to say nothing of the impetus to better farming. It is hard to make the present farmer realise that his lot in life is infinitely more real and natural than the life of the city dweller, because when the farmer comes to town, he sees the street full of people, presumably on pleasure bent, in reality _ scuttering around to find the cheapest market in which to buy their goods, Consider the monotony of a tram or bus driver's life, @ factory workér or a shop assistant closed in from sun and air five days a week, the dweller in flats and room with liberty of movement restricted, and then contrast the independent life the average farmer lives among natural surroundings. Small farm communities would do away with that isolation that surrounds the big farmer and prevents him from getting the company, the pleasure and the knowledge needed for mental stimulus.
CITY
DWELLER
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 194, 12 March 1943, Page 3
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209FARM LIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 194, 12 March 1943, Page 3
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