FARMING METHODS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 14, 12 December 1929, Page 2

FARMING METHODS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In your farming column in Saturday’s issue “Ploughshare” provided some very instructive reading as it relates to tne general adoption of a more intensive system of farming. The future of this district, commercially and otherwise, being inseparably associated with the revenue obtained from the land, it follows that the more efficient uses to which it can be put the greater will be the revenue available for distribution. By the employment of more advanced methods than formerly used, farmers are now learning that small area farms can be worked economically and with greater profit than under the old haphazard systems. The suggestion put forward for the introduction of small farm competitions is worthy of support and, if taken up earnestly, must do a large amount of good. The Longburn property mentioned in Saturday’s paper provides a most instructive example of increased production under good management, and it is very desirable that an extension of this intensive system of farming should be encouraged until the majority of farms are brought up to or near that standard. The resources of this district are far from being fully developed and this can only be done successfully by ter farming. The formation of boys’ and girls’ calf rearing clubs is also to becommended. I have personal knowledge, of their success in other places and hope that the day is not far distant when all interested in country development will combine their efforts to bring about a more lively interest, bv creating a desire among the rising generation an inclination toward the adoption of farming pursuits as an interesting and profitable occupation. Here is a splendid opportunity for the Manawatu. A. and P. Association, supported by the institutions connected with farming and commercial interests, to give a lead which I am sure will have the support of farmers. In mv own small way I am willing to assist as soon as the initiative is taken by some responsible body that will direct the management on lines successfully adopted elsewhere. —I am, etc., “PROSPECTOR.” Palmerston North, 12th December, 1929.