28 June 1951 : The much-talked of state-owned experimental abattoirs have not been built HEREFORD: With the departure of the high winds, rain has come again in a steady, dreary drizzle. To-day we should have been hay-making: it is as well that none is yet turned and that not much is cut. Rams are sitting each against the trunk of an apple tree: the sheltering branches form big green umbrellas. Nasty selfish creatures. Janice seems to think, so I have brought her back to her old nook against the

Country diary 1951: Animals left to wither away outside inadequate slaughterhouses
Gwen McBryde
