WON'T FARMING PAY? [From the Wanganui Times.] Of course it won't ; I tried it years ago, and I tell yon, sir, it won't pay. Such is the conclusion at which a large number of our settlers have arrived, and a man might as well try to stop the tide with a broomstick as try to set the plough and harrow agoing m these districts. There are, however, a few facts which go to prove that times and prices have considerably altered since agriculture would not pay, and the sons of many of our settlers, who were then mere boys, are now young men, but how many of them could yoke a team of horses and plonch a piece of land m a business-like manner ? With-
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Timaru Herald, Volume V, Issue 156, 24 November 1866, Page 3
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