FARMING ABROAD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 April 1929, Page 7

FARMING ABROAD.

ANTIQUATED METHODS. Alter observing flic methods oi 1 arming employed jn Gieal If lit.ain, America, the Uuntinent of Europe, Egypt, and l iKiia . Al r E. Earle Valle, 'VUo returned Horn a year A trip admail today, is more than ever lmpressied with the New Zelaaml I armor and his achievements. "I can positive'iy assert that the small Jarmor in New Zealand is tin? ha t dost working and most intelligent of liis kind.” he said at Auclv.a.nd. ‘One New Zealand tanner will do aa much work as two in England, or as three on the Continent, or as 20 in India. This it is that enables ns to lai-e produce, ship it 13.000 miles and he; 1 1 tiie European farmer in his own market. It England were as vvedi farmed ;1 s i lie Waikato there would be hut simall need to import, 'food into England." ’I lie use of anticjualed machinery in England and on the Con I inenl w on; d surprise New Zealand tanners. The average English farmer, by using' two large dcaught horses. ‘*a» large as elephant s.’’ in single-furrow plough was quite content to plough two acres a dav. Mr Vailo was. much struck by tl.e scarcity of good butter in India, and the United States, in both of which countries he felt there might be possibilities for new markets for the Dominion. The butter served on the i able-’ in the host hotels in India would he used solely for cooking purposes in Now Zealand. There was nothing produced in England to touch New Zealand blitter. The high respect with which Dritisli people were regarded nlirnad a'.xj impressed Mr \ ailc ; even her late enemies regarded her with admiral ion. . , “In Germany the Englishman ie treated with the greatest courtesy," lie said. ••The 'Gott strafe England' attitude i.s an end. G-er-mans recognise that not only does England not strike her enemies when they are- down, but also she will not a Tow others to do so. Throughout the wor.d the Englishman is trusted. In any part of the world he can buy any poods lie wants and pav for them with Ids rr-r so mil ••hcoue. It. is ext'-aordm-Di-v ‘the confidence foreigners have m ii?'. and T hope no Eng’idrman is ever mean enough to abuse it.