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Farmers and conservationists must live together
IT is surely the un usual diversity of the B r it ish landscape which makes it so very attractive. It is difficult to travel
machinery, like the early motor car, really only
even a sh or t distance w i th o u t moving from one type of scenery to ' a n o th e r . P e rh ap s you could keep in s imilar surroundings by moving along the Pennines, but move across them and even the roses change colour!
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reasons for this diversi ty. The geology itself — the underlying rocks and
There are two, main
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B o t h c omb i n e to Farming methods have
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. The enclosures and the
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beginnings of more sci entific management of the land enabled produc tion to be increased to feed the rising popula tion.
T h e e a r l y f a rm
replaced the horse with an engine. But as it has developed and as the sci ence of husbandry has developed, so farming practice has had to alter in order to remain effi cient . and competitive. We could no more revert to pre-war, methods now th a n th e Army could revert to cavalry.
There has always been
change and there always will. The countryside is a living thing. Its ap pearance has been cre ated by the way it has been farmed and' cared for and it cannot be fos silised without dying.
land as a factory floor to produce food th a t has made the landscape we see today. I t is a chang ing landscape because it is living landscape — but th a t is precisely what makes it so attractive.
I t is the use of the
in conserving the beauty' of tiie countryside is the conservation of the Brit ish family farming struc ture. This can only be done by ensuring th a t it has the ability to develop in accordance with the changing circumstances of the real world.
The first requirement The second req u ire
ment is to .ensure tha t th e re is goodwill bet ween the farming com mu n i ty and c o n s e r vationists so th a t amic able voluntary arrange ments can be made to protect the special areas where they are needed.
■ its energies to making sure th a t these require ments are met, so th a t th e h uma n scale and aesthetic beauty of our . c o u n try s id e wi l l co n tin u e under the g ua r dianship of those who have created and cared for it for so long.
The NFU is devoting
Family affair at Twist on
, IF rabbit and chips was among the most popular order at hos- tel r ies and eating houses, then Thomas Fielding would be one of the Ribble Valley’s happiest men.
Fielding is one of the country’s few rabbit-meat specialists.
and slaughter house at Twiston, Mr Fielding, helped by his wife and sons, markets 250-300 rabbits a week.
From his breeding unit
ting people into the rabbit-eating habit and thinking of the meat as an alternative to beef or pork, leading Mr Fielding to look into the possibility of marketing his product abroad.
The main trouble is get For 47-year-old Mi-
chicken, and once people taste it they, invariably come back for more. It is low in cholesterol and, ac cording to cut, costs from £1 to £2 a pound,” Mi- Fielding says.
“It is very similar to
two separate companies at Fernside Barn — breed ing and marketing — in volving Mr Fielding, his wife Sylvia and sons John and Alan.
The Fielding family run
land whites and Califor nians which are specially suitable for the commer cial market.
They breed New Zea
does on the farm, each producing in a year about seven litters of eight or nine.
eight or nine weeks to reach the required weight of just over four pounds.
The youngsters take
will not have a harsh word said about the qual ities, goodness and value for money of rabbit meat. \
Not unexpectedly, he
packing, the product is either taken to Manches ter Meat Market or sold to local shops.
After slaughter and There are about 300
(Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Bu rn ley 22331 (Classified)
waging”war ON THE TICK
• sheep farmers millions of pounds of lost pro duction every year. On the wild fells bet
SHEEP ticks cost
ween Chipping and. Ab- beystead a scheme is underway to try and reduce the damage caused
by these insects. ' If it is successful it
by Peter Ashworth, Agr icultural Advisory Officer, Accrington
could be good news for sheep farmers in many of the hill and upland areas of Britain. Some farmers have
been trying to reduce tick numbers for many years. A new a t ta c k -w a s launched in 1979 when 20 farmers and eight land lords joined with the Ag ricultural Development and Advisory Service of the Ministry of Agricul ture in an experiment to control the tick popula tion.
suitable chemical when the ticks are about to become active.
Sheep are dipped in a
means two extia dips in the year, ,one around lambing time and one in the late August. The cost of these extra dips is shared between the Minis try and the landlords. The ticks are parasites
For most farmers this
feed on sheep and if the dipping can be timed to coincide with the feeding time for the ticks, then it should be possible to reduce the population di-amatically by killing the ticks when they climb on to the
sheep.There are problenis m knowing when to dip be cause the activity of the ticks depends on the . weather and varies from
blood.Infected lambs die or become very ill and only grow slowly. Heavy infes tations of young ticks can severely affect grouse and other wild birds and animals. Most fully-grown ticks
year to year. On some of the farms
regular visits are made by staff of the advisory ser vice to count ticks on a selection of sheep and also on a small group of sheep that are left undipped throughout the year.
me is working there should be no more ticks
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If the dipping program
on the undipped 3heep than on the dipped sheep The ticks are counted by examining the sheep when they are brought down off the fell. The ticks tend to feed
and spread disease from one animal to another when they feed by (Suck ing very small amounts of
on the hairy parts of the sheep not .in the thick fleece. These days it is very rare to find more than 10 ticks on a sheep. Some of the farmers can remember when sheep had up to 100 ticks on them. The scheme is just en
• been as obvious in the number of ticks seen in the early autumn. Another part of the
tering its fourth year. So far there seems to have been a reduction in the tick population that is active in the spring. This reduction has not
scheme is an attempt to relate tick activity to ob servations of weather con ditions. This involves en tering weather records into a computer which predicts tick activity. If this can be done ac
good i summe r , but perhaps we are winning the fight against the tick.
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enthusiastic about the scheme. Last summer very few lambs died or were affected by disease carried by ticks. Perhaps it was just a
curately it should be poss ible to advise farmers on the best time to dip. Fanners in the area are
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the farm is :| iness and wives have! to form a prl in the Ribbll Secretary!
years, they I bed and breg modation, if November tg running, iij their 100-acl a licensed i | guest hout from an old The busil
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