A PHILOSOPHER FARMER.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1727, 23 February 1912, Page 1

A PHILOSOPHER FARMER.

The "\ T .Z. Dairyman (Wellington), which Mr Fred. Greville so ably and successfully conducts, has struck a clever patch in a new series of articles appearing in his journal. They read almost as if drawn from Mr Greville's own wide experience, and bear tho title, "Letters of a Selfmade Dairy Farmer to His Son." The letters are written from "Outback Farm" by "John Dairyman" to his son who is studying in Wellington, and are full of good phrases and sound' philosophisuigs. "You may become so great a modern that you will never be seen again upon the land." "We dairy farmers are just as eager to-day to get 136s per cwt. for our produce in the Loudon market as in any previous year in our existence." "We wear no coat ot arms save that which carries the arms of our coat." "All wo have to pride ourselves upon' in the way of a printed record is the brand we register in the Herd Book." "Both your parents belong to the stock known as First Settlers." "Take advice, my son; but always act on

your own findings." "I would rather have you broken into the ways of the city than have the city break you," "Walk straight, my son, and look straight. ... 1 would havo you lean your neck. right back on your colar." Good stuff, that. No wonder the Greville Letters are being talked about.