JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13720, 29 April 1910, Page 8

JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Splendid weather now pr«-||fm' j South Canterbury, and fanßei_l___F'" pushing on with farm wbrk m ii]k§gK? tinns. Prevent indications -jtt-jjjU big area being sown iv wheat*arf^^K'' •Au-stralia will soon- set dard for the- worlds * prophecy v.a> voiced, by tha' _tS-J_i * lor " Agriculture hist week tci3_BVHawkesbury tNe-w South WaW-ri-BB'. l cultural College, after variola-SB £| had been given to the '-"'VmbP-i late Mr I'arrer. Mr H. W. pSjSB'l [erred to the* deceased cxperaj3__B!-'' as a man of extraordinary _hi]jE_§H\|j intuitive genius, to whom -Mj3B-f and the world owed an - in*-*VJBHM tlebt. For twenty years and laid thc foundation of tmSmWfz wheat-breeding. Though liiaiily ton aids Australian fSsHH nients. the thoroughness 4y__B_ nu-tliods and tiie wide"" scope --33__K voj-ti gat ions, wero productive'"«sE|Ki able results to evencountry in thc world. Ha enthusiasm rendercel no exacting, and no detail t(» _jjjj£j|jß* cant: and the wheats of his now liold pride of place thro—Sß? Australia. Tim*> and again his !n3Bh won first- and champion -n»>.-~Sfig»ff Royal Agricultural e<hows. M_«Bjs appealed to the wheat-rainer* m__BjF in raising the money necessary «£B_ Farrcr scholarships at the <*o_t_ts-B__* r uas tho way Mr Farrer have choseu to Ik* remember—V<aSMfT An American writer dealing Hnflß problem of congested cities -_tc||K. settled rural lands, as it educated man, sums up: Th_l|S|Jst| of the problem is that must be made sufficiently pHf-SK. and pleasam to compare" fa*<liMSß| or at least equal with other For when a man with the of work can make as much make it with as little the country as in the city, t_Sßß|j lem will disappear. Takiiig iiwiSjßl sideration that which he v oukf2ffl|B4 in the city the normal retun_^SB J ; men receive from work in tensions, the prices for ducts must go even higher are to-day before a first-rate J that matter, a second or mau will consent to profession. When tho prices risen, intelligent men will faim. The high.r prices such men to limit their or nine hours a day, with awßMp and still live, which they VAySBM\[ now. The improved tempt others, and tho the city back to the land TO-pM^E, 1 but until prices for do so rise, no cannot back to the land" any more fhjffim* can educate them to throw W__|J|k3 sclary in order to accept a -^PsffiHv