Problems of the Farmer

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 59, 2 December 1933, Page 9

Problems of the Farmer

Sir, —I politely suggest that your correspondent “John Bull’’ displays a sadly neglected education. His remarks on the subject of farming are not even intelligent.

“John Bull” is indeed a very clever man if he can prove that New Zealand is not a primary producing country, worked in the main by gentlemen who, strangely enough, grow the wherewithal to justify this description of the land of our birth. Further, his fortune is made if he is bold enough to go on a lecture tour of the country demonstrating that weird statement of his that farming is a part-time occupation. When he has done that, he may purchase some of that £BO an acre land he mentions, first of all realising that this is not the year 1839, and that the Canterbury Plains do not represent all the New Zealand soil there is to be had. Perhaps he will also discover who is responsible for bread and meat being at “too high a price for people to purchase in sufficient quantities.” For “John Bull’s” benefit, I would like to say in conclusion that if a business or industry other than farming had io carry half the liabilities that farming has to, thanks to (he parasites which exist, that business or industry would “go out” in a week.—l am,etc., NO, JOHN, NO! Pahiatua, November 29.