LARGE SCALE FARMING.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 475, 21 April 1920, Page 6

LARGE SCALE FARMING.

"Black Watch's" reply is a clever adjustment of words, but flinches from fairly meeting the position raised in favor of large scale farming.

Cows can be milked iv small n.mnbers in separate sheds and fill all the requirements to class it as mass production. In the Socialist State, the delineation of the farms will be in accordance with the natural conformities of the country. Cows will be milked on the rich flat and undulating land. Sheep will be relegated to the poor land and hills.

Waive the claim that in order to secure the best results dairy farming requires part hand feeding and winter stabling, and it' requires three acres to pasture a cow. Style mass production a herd of two thousand cows, which needs an area three miles square to maintain tbmi. Admitted, they can't be milked in one shed. But one tractor and operator can do all the ploughing and A couple of teams and a set of harvesting machinery would suffice where now half a hundred are in use, or, rather, idleness. One trained mind with a specialised knowledge could supervise the application of scientific principles. Under small-scale farming, fifty would have to devote the best years of their life to acquire this knowledge.

Providing the necessary production has been achieved, their time and energy would yield a richer reward if spent in different studies.