My friend Jim has a farm. He has a lot of cows and he sells their milk. He does not milk the cows by hand: he has an electric milking machine. He gets up very early every morning, milks the cows with his machine, lets them out into the fields, gets the milk ready, puts it in very big cans, washes the milking machine and the buckets, puts the milkcans out in the road, and then has his breakfast. At about 8 o'lock a big truck comes and collects his milk cans.
After breakfast, Jim goes to his desk and writes letters and bills and other things. When I visited him last year, he said to me, "Do you know, Bill, a farmer has a lot of paperwork now. He is like a clerk in an office."Jim loves his farm, but he hates paperwork.
After he has finished, he cleans his cowsheds and then goes out into his fields to look at his cows, or does some work in his vegetable garden. He is always very busy and his wife is too.
