Edition Bobbett2. Speeches and statements by Elizabeth F. Bobbett
1950 Ashford, Meeting of the Irish Farmers’ Federation
Source: Wicklow People, 13.05.1950
Miss Elizabeth Bobbett said that as one of the original promoters of these trips, she was very happy to see them all enjoying themselves. She spoke of the lovely time which the Devonshire farmers had given their members last year and how impressed they had been by the farming methods of Devonshire, envying their lovely grass, well-manured lands and up-to-date equipment. Their members had learned a good deal and had imitated them in providing for themselves improved conditions and methods. She thought that farmers in many countries forgot that they were the most important section in the community of a country. They should unite in making other people realise what they owed to the agricultural community. Everywhere now there was talk of over-production, with reports side-by-side of peoples starving for want of food, and there were people in need of food who had not the money with which to buy it.