THE AUSTRALIAN FARMER.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13744, 6 April 1915, Page 3

THE AUSTRALIAN FARMER.

I Will Law son writes in the "Sun":— I An Englishman who visited Aus- ! tralia last spring as president of the I agricultural- section of the Science Congress, Mr A. D. Hall, "F.R.S., has been giving his impressions of the Australian fanner, at a meeting of the Farmers' Club in London. He gives the Australian farmer credit for being the no.it courageous and resourceful of men, aurl in comparing him with the Eriglisn farmer, who is admitted to be the best scientific farmer in the Empire, e'eploros the lack of the qualities of courage and enterprise in John Bull. Mr Hal] says:—"l see in the Australian farmer the hardest worker on the continent, by whoso toil has been built and is sustained the very real prosperity of Australia." These are sentiments in which ary observant traveller in Australia will concur. Could Mr Hall see manj of the Australian farmers now, with the draught staring- in the face, bravely struggling on in the firm belief that rain will soon fall, he would ad trre this courage even more. These ;>.re the real Australians, those wiry, hardy, lean countrymen, the flower of whom are already enlisting for the war. The life they lead in the open, in a land of almost perpetual sunshine, taking hardship and ease as they come—and it is mostly hardship even in prospe ••.-us years—is moulding .them into a differ ent pattern from that of the ease-lov-ing citizens of Australia's imwielJly! cities.