Original Correspondence.

Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 72, 24 August 1865, Page 9

Original Correspondence.

Dear jSir — Wiil you permit me, through the medium of your valuable paper, to' say a few words' on a subject which seems to me to have been of late very mnch neglected :" I ' mean ou r Ploughing Match. "It ;i has "been • with "feelings of disappointment that I have for the last few weeks vainly perused your columns to find traces of some steps being taken to promote so worthy an object. It does seem very strange tha.t one of the,fineat agricultural districts in the Province, 1 and one of the first too to adopt Ploughing Matches; should not now be able to produce: a single individual able and willing to take up the matter in a way alike creditable to himself and the district to' which he belongs. " ; I;, well remember at the close, of our last Ploughing Match Dinner that a gentleman' (at present one of pur noble M.P. C/s) Vby . some means or other succeeded in getting into a state of. great enthusiasm, , and would hav.e an Agjjjcultural Society formed there, and then. The object was laudable, and many, believing in the sincerity of its promoter, put their names to a piece of paper which was procured for the ptirpose, but where the enthusiasm, and the. piece, of paper went to must at present remain a mystefyy at all events neither were ever more ' heard Ol ■•■ : -' ■• V ' '■ ■■■•- ; v/. : '. ;',.;•;■'■'"'" As Editors are always supposed to know everything, perhaps you will be good enough to inform your readers the'reason why iherj^ has been no match this season. Is ■ it for'; want of funds'? %I, for onei'do no^think'tha^ -■•■'■. .■ ; . <;'i. ■ . . ... V . . ; ■"- . ■ "■■•."

— '. .. ... .'--'. — - ...>; ■.. .. i- * : . .-.';-:... ..:. rgason gufflciently ppwerfull Is it be»a;tise tKeire is a gcarcijfyof good. ploughmen ? . Ido not believe. -there" we're ' ever .fetter plough.men orinpre of them on the Plain than there •a^e at, the present moment :, or is. it because wfe ia^e % all too busy niinding pur pwii affairs tfijait we *f canna be fashed" getting \ it up ? Tlien the sopner we .get rid of . su'pli . sielfish.n^sa the better will it be. for us all. Sincerely hoping that some one. may take; the matter up, -ere it-be too late, and thus prevent us i beGoming. a reproaph .and a byeword among our neighbors, is earnest wish of v - [\ Your obedient Servant. SPEED THE PLOUGH.