EXIT THE LOGS AND THE STUMPS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 861, 6 July 1910, Page 10

EXIT THE LOGS AND THE STUMPS.

M MANAWATU IMPROVEMENTS

[y. Between Halcombe ... and Feilding* !■. /writes ■; our travelling - correspondent) };v-' : 6 considerable area of-land ha's'already sr ploughed, and a-good quantity of-oats iV.EOwn. The paddocks have been, in capiK.tal condition for,agricultural operations. f Just enough rain has fallen to put the f-Boilinto its best/state for turning'up. i' Asl rode along I saw very few (com;■':''paratively) standing"stacks. ■ Not'much1. is. now left for cutting into chaff. Had ('the season been-like some we have had i. in recent '.years, when there was pi-artic-le Blly; no grass feed; there would have ;':;been a much heavier demand for chaff j than has been the case. j : Between Feilding and Palmerston I b Eaw: : signs in many-places where the I. long reign of stumps and logs is com- : I .ing'to an end. Many farmers have, '.v'; after years and years of logs, stumps, arid rushes, found that such a style'of land-wasting is not profitable. Land of ''. the value of this, in proximity to two I Jarge towns, and near the railway,.cani not be allowed to remain in its unim-!-/proved state much longer. • I well re- '■:.' member, when -spending a night with ' an old farmer friend of over thirty I years' acquaintance,' asking him why : ; he did not break up his paddocks. "Oh, ? no;" he said, "if I-put more improve- : ments on my farm 1 shall have to pay . more taxes. As it is, I can make a *(~:\ comfortable living, and put money in : the bank. What more do I want?" Of L 'course he was one of the old school, '..and either would, not or could not sec • that by improving his land in tho way i~ suggested he would be doubling its [.[carrying capacity.