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Story: Farm families

Feeding the calves

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Feeding the calves

A farm wife and her daughter feed milk to calves on a Te Aroha farm in 1970. Although women’s role on farms was mainly domestic they did continue to help out part-time. This was especially so on dairy farms and also when seasonal pressures were acute, such as at lambing or calving.

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Emma Dewson and Jock Phillips, Farm families – Women in the rural family, 1880–1970, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19837/feeding-the-calves (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Emma Dewson and Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.