IMMIGRATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13937, 24 June 1909, Page 7

IMMIGRATION.

A; BIT OF GROUND BAIT. A Morayshire farmer, who. recently settled in the Oamaru district, writes to the "Scotsman" an interesting letter, in the course of which he says: — " I have iiever seen' anything like the crops there arc iu some of the paddocks around here, and there arc such large areas under crop that 011 some of.the farms a gross total of £2soo.from grain crops has been recorded this season. ;On some of the new settlements lately - broken up by the Government, the settlers will be able to make a splendid start. I have now traversed by foot and bike nearly the whole ol the district around here, and all I can sa~ of it is -that it is a splendid country. Perhaps it is still rough and rather treeless, but in time this will be remedied. Meantime the whole country is iu a prosperous state; one cannot fail to see this in passing through the agricultural lands. It is true jthe land is not farmed so thoroughly as is done iu the Old Country, but I have no hesitation in saying tiiat the farmer here knows his business better than the farmer at Home. His up-to-date implements his six-horse ploughs and drills, his latest tlnVshing mills,-and all other machinery give him a great ' pull ' over his brother farmer in the Old Country. Many a hint could the; Home farmer take from the New Zealander. All the latest cereal and green crops are tried by the farmer immediately they are introduced in New Zealand, and farmers seem to be always 011 the path o.f progress. Even their horses seem to be better adapted for the work than agricultural horses at home, for it is marvellous to me the hills I have seen a six-horse plough go up and the dravs a six-horse team can pull." '