ENGLISH FARMING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 September 1927, Page 16

ENGLISH FARMING.

SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBUTE

When leaving for Home, Mr W. Robinson leader of the South African farmers who recently visited England, paid a tribute to British fanning. He added that before coming to England, they bad toured France, Germany, Denmark, and Holland, and, much a-s they appieciated the hospitality of those countries, and also of London, they felt they were at home when they came to South Lincolnshire. Speaking of stock, he said they regarded the animals as wonderful; and in the Fens they had seen the highest cultivation witnessed anywhere on the tour. English farmers did everything that was best for agriculturists to do, hut the labour problem and prices seemed to be against them, caused through dumping from other countries. The English farmers had to pay more for labour, but failed to get any better prices for their stuff Farmers were producers, but they did not- fix there price. It was unfair, he -said, for farmers to have to send produce to London at a high cost, and then have to meet unfair competition. For horses . and cattle, he was quite sure England could not he beaten, and- the fields of potatoes in the Fen country were better than they had seen anywhere else on the tour.