AFRAID TO GO BACK!

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 237, 21 September 1914, Page 7

AFRAID TO GO BACK!

A CANADIAN’S DILEMMA. Professor Creelman, president of the Canadian Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario, returned to V. eilington on Friday to catch the Sydney boat, lionie- - ward bound. I Mr. Creeiman has just returned from I a visit to the Taieri Plains, Otago. j “What do 1 taiuk of it? Marvellous!” said he to a Christchurch Star ; reporter. *',)iiy, you are ju:,t play ing ■at farming. Yons don't know what , you’ve got. I'm afraid io stay here, s If 1 stayed here a montn i eoiud never I cut loose. Seventy bushels of wheat Ito the acre, and the ground just | scratched. They won’t believe me. it s j the Ananias Cliib for me the moment 1 i open my mor. th! Seim busiieis to i the acre and the seed just thrown into ; the ground. And wiien i tell them t.;ax 'you chuck the turnips and grass down ! together and eat oft tm> turnips while I the -sheep are manuring the grasswith the sunshining three hundred days of the year and tne grass six inclie:.high right on the tail of winter! No, they won’t believe it! It’s Ananias for me. And the ground just scratched! And when I tell them that 1 have seen boulder country fn-ding tare - and Four sheep to the acre, and the ’.‘p w>tn two land's each hiding behind boulders! Well, it’s m> use. No winter feeding m> barns! Why. in Canada we build barns bigger and better than our houses—have to! Ami our implements laid up eight months of th< year while we go about on sledges and keep, the live stock housed and stall-led. )\ bile yon chaps are just joy-riding round on motors and going to the horse tracks. You don’t know what you’ve got! And our fellows making a living tm a hundred acres. It beats me how it s done.

. . . An ideal country tor hogs, and not a hog in sight. I suppose it’s becaus ■ you cen’.s ride round them with horses? Well, I’m going to get some picture-, of your country and take them along, and when the chaps from England torn it up, as so many ol them do lie'-aiis-’ they can’ .-ndlire the cliinnte. "Il just head them oft to Eldorado. Weil, goixi-liye. I’m just boltin" aw lx ■■ur:e I’m afraid to stop. (»7t- and «'.beat eiineked into the gi*<>im<L atm '■■.•tellty hll-11 - •