INTENSIVE FARMING.
NORTHERN EUROPE POSITION.
CONTRAST WITH DOMINIONS.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
WELLINGTON, Monday.
The banking member of the Rural Credits Commission, Mr. P. H. Cox, who returned to Wellington to-day by way of Australia, has some interesting observations to make upon things seen in the course of his world tour.
In commenting on the conditions of rural life prevailing in Northern Europe, Mr. Cox said to-day that farm life there .was so much simpler than it was in New Zealand. For a farmer to own a motorcar was the exception rather than the rule. Every inch of the ground was cultivated to its full extent. Everything possible was obtained from even second and third-class land by intensive cultivation and manuring. Countries like Belgium, Denmark and Holland were really at the end of their tether. They had too large a population and the ground could not possibly be made to produce more.
"Contrast that," said Mr. Cox, "with New Zealand, Australia or South Africa, where the ground has been hardly scratched. Think of the possibilities before us."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19384, 20 July 1926, Page 14
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