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<blockquote data-quote="Cowmangav" data-source="post: 6737729" data-attributes="member: 44502"><p>I read this book in my teens and can still remember parts of it , so it made an impression on me - but then I was at that age. When my grandfather ( retired tenant farmer born 1892 and who made money in WW2 , and became quite savvy on the Stock Market ) saw me reading it he said , perhaps unfairly " Oh , the man who never made a mistake !"</p><p></p><p>The things I remember were 1) his ambition to be a £1,000 a year man , the salary a business man would expect but not what farmers could earn in the 1930s.</p><p>2) His tale of being at a farm auction where there were young sex linked RIR X LS chickens being sold. The auctioneer explained the sex link process ( gold cock crossed with silver hens produces silver males and gold hens ). Unfortunately the auctioneer got it wrong and thought the offspring were the same colours as the parents, and proceeded to sell the brown female chicks as males. When G Henderson tried to correct him he was told that if he had come to disrupt the sale he could make him self scarce . So Henderson bought the cheap chicks, as he had done his best to prevent the error. I think Henderson claimed that because he read a lot , he was better informed than the other farmers there.</p><p></p><p>3) His dairy cattle ( Jerseys ) - he said the land was too thin to dairy in summer so he devised a system of rearing Jersey heifers and calving them out , selling them then to dairy farmers , and rearing the offspring to keep the herd going. However 75 years or more before sexed semen I couldn't work this out. Did he keep enough heifers with faults and problems to milk to rear the calves with , and calve them again? Can someone with the book tell me if there's an explanation? Just buying in heifer calves would be dodgy , as a good few would be getting sold for a reason , and diseases would come in if done regularly. I suppose he could buy young calves at dispersals , but they are often the dearest trade of all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowmangav, post: 6737729, member: 44502"] I read this book in my teens and can still remember parts of it , so it made an impression on me - but then I was at that age. When my grandfather ( retired tenant farmer born 1892 and who made money in WW2 , and became quite savvy on the Stock Market ) saw me reading it he said , perhaps unfairly " Oh , the man who never made a mistake !" The things I remember were 1) his ambition to be a £1,000 a year man , the salary a business man would expect but not what farmers could earn in the 1930s. 2) His tale of being at a farm auction where there were young sex linked RIR X LS chickens being sold. The auctioneer explained the sex link process ( gold cock crossed with silver hens produces silver males and gold hens ). Unfortunately the auctioneer got it wrong and thought the offspring were the same colours as the parents, and proceeded to sell the brown female chicks as males. When G Henderson tried to correct him he was told that if he had come to disrupt the sale he could make him self scarce . So Henderson bought the cheap chicks, as he had done his best to prevent the error. I think Henderson claimed that because he read a lot , he was better informed than the other farmers there. 3) His dairy cattle ( Jerseys ) - he said the land was too thin to dairy in summer so he devised a system of rearing Jersey heifers and calving them out , selling them then to dairy farmers , and rearing the offspring to keep the herd going. However 75 years or more before sexed semen I couldn't work this out. Did he keep enough heifers with faults and problems to milk to rear the calves with , and calve them again? Can someone with the book tell me if there's an explanation? Just buying in heifer calves would be dodgy , as a good few would be getting sold for a reason , and diseases would come in if done regularly. I suppose he could buy young calves at dispersals , but they are often the dearest trade of all! [/QUOTE]
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