APPEALS TO FARMERS
| ’ Sir-Why have the farmers been singled out to be the unwilling victims of the latest radio propaganda campaign? Why suggest by implication that farmers are a group of easy-going folk who need continual stimulation if they are to do any work? Most cow farmers whom I know object to being urged to work, however good the cause, by smooth-tongued -announcers’ who probably don’t know-which end of a cow produces the milk. On this farm the day begins at 5.0 a.m. and ends at 7.0 p.m. with one-and-a-half hours off for meals in between. Why choose the busy hay-making season to urge yet more effort? Why not attend to the backslidings of some of the 40-hour week people who think they are overworked if they actually push a pen for more than 35 hours? Farmers know when and how to make hay. They have been doing it for years-and honeyed advice from the city fastness of 2YA is not only unnecessary but often borders on presumption, in spite of the good intentions behind all this radio "flap." One other matter-the morning weather forecast, repeated now at 9.0 a.m. for the benefit of "farmers, yachtsmen, etc." O.K. perhaps for yachtsmen, but most dairy farmers are in the dairy at 7.0 a.m. and have left the house after breakfast at 9.0 a.m.-a fact that should be known’to the programme arrangers. Eight o’clock is the logical time for a farmers’ forecast, especially when such forecasts are of vital importance in making hay. The service is appreciated, but the thing is all wrong.
HAYSEED
(Hamilton)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 5
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263APPEALS TO FARMERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 5
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