Our Stides.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 61, 5 February 1883, Page 2

Our Stides.

'" ' -■" A (Itangibra Standard.) \.- The strides made during theVpast 'four or five years m New Zealand by_tbe farming interest, was really wonderful. In the Northern a^tricb the' enormous quantity of laud wliich has been sown down this seasan will surprise : even thbse who. are residing here, when it is ,made known through the, Government' Agricultural returns. Not only haije^ the representations . of r » ■» number of' American Reaping, .and Binding Machine- manufacturers succeeded m getting oflF ? a large number of American machines, but- English .makers are* entering 'the field, whilst t\e welj« known. .Ne-TT^ealaod^ agricultural- iirplement- ■manufact^dters; x messrs Reid and G,r ay* are m, tha y running " with a capitally itrbng prbMcti«n. At the very least there must have been an uutlay of some £100,000 on thesja machines this year alpne, ,to say nothing of the vast quantity of other j agricultural machinery that has hadtj be procured. New Zealand 'is making (herself felt as a;graip prodnciqg country, thanks to the policy inaugurated undfer Sir Julius Vogel's regime . We are advancing with rapid strides, but yet we,;shoulj£nofr be carried ; awftTiwjt]&) the idea that nothing can now restrain our :.progres3, simply because we have got 'the ball at our feet at the present time.