AFRAID TO GO BACK!

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 6

AFRAID TO GO BACK!

A CANADIAN'S DILEMMA.

Professor Creelman, president of the Canadian Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario, has just returned from a visit to the Taieri Plains, Otago. He was hurrying away to catch the boat for Sydney, when ia Christchurch Star reporter asked him what he thought of his southern visit.

"What do I think of it ? Marvellous 1 j Why, you are just playing at farming. You don't know what you ye got. I'm afraid to stay here. If I stayed here a month I could never cut loose. Seventy bushels of wheat to the acre and the ground just scratched. They won't believe me. It's the Ananias Ulub for me the moment I-open my mouth! Seventy bushels to the acre and the seed just thrown into the ground And wnen I tell them that, you chuck the turnips and grass down together and eat off the turnips while the sheep are manuring the grass—with the sun shining three hundred days of the year and the grass six inches 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 I have seen boulder country feeding three and four sheep to the acre, and the sheep with two lambs each hiding behind the boulders! Well, it's no use. No winter feediug, no barns! Why, in Canada we build barns bigger and better than our houses—have to! Aad our implements laid up eight months of the year while we go about on sledges and keep the live-stock housed and .stall-fed, while you chaps are just joy-riding round on motor-cars and going to the horse tracks. You don't know what you've got! And our fellows making a living on a hundred acres. It beats me how it's done! . . . An ideal country for hogs and not a hog in sight. I suppose it's because you can't ride round them with horses? Well, I'm going to get some pictures of your country and send them along, and when ths chaps from England turn it vp —as many of them do, because they can't endure the climate— I'll just head them off to Eldorado. Well, good-bye. I'm just bolting away because I'm afraid to stop. Oats and wheat chucked into the ground and seventy bush !"