"COUNTRY LOOKING WELL."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 923, 16 September 1910, Page 8

"COUNTRY LOOKING WELL."

■, .A .'FARMER'S OBSERVATIONS. teSii: "The .country,"" said? afarmer vyesterr ' day, who had travelled through a mun|vSj,i,'l)er of, the'; principal:agricultural districts vli'iK":of the North Island, and some .parts .of [S?;i&the■■ South: Island; "is, on.: the whole, look--'ins very WelM cannot, stty''exceptipnally ! ty?'|/;iwdl'/-because::"it ;:is:.:not;;oxce]stionai;,;for i', . New Zealand to;look well. • • J:: : -vfaking•:• things nil^ through/. New, Zea-. j . '.land has had; a. good ;winter, and while. f'S'&pne '.hears; .complaints; in > some quarters 'concerning ■somethinj; . effecting a, particu-'; ' Jar locality, thero .is ' really very little ,< - grumbling. rip4/;/"A;noticeable::thinglis-.that/while'the; t eeasoh;is latein/some /respects;/it. .'is, early: in others. . In a good many districts tho ( fi?.^V:cows'are; coming and,'perhaps, ih;: ; tho isame districts the, grass crop is late. :?T. noticed' that- there: are' milch larger 1 herds'; this ■ season..than ever 'there/were.before, andiri,some : .,oases,; tho "herds;iare; much'/younger;: owing ! tb: '.: .' tlje older cows having been disposed of. "In tho. matter, of i milking-sheds; it - is; 6vf imperfectly yere.never ,as ; up-, at ./any other period in; our'/dairy-. /:v;/ /ing. history. l / Driving; along /roads,, which' ifi"- I kneiv well a few .'years ago, I failed to fc'Xftsea {the/ 'miid-yards./'and'ytne. sloppcd-up, S®>leaky-looking' sheds whichj/used i; to i ; -: be .. there, in thoso days. ;Pn most 01/ the., firms iwhicKjljyisited I; found that; z/:':there ; .liad/been '•' splendid,«changes., 1 .The i;*'-; Scow-sheds' /ivere '.-comfortable,:_ well.lighted; .// // airy, modern buildings, with cqncrote /// • /floors ia'nd good ;drainage., What f .ii?/also/ |:V/ : '.C? a;plea'sing (feature is: that, the milk-stands Zaire >aire now being erected a reasonable, disC; ' tanoe./Away. from tho. shed's. . . ..' :. '• ,"Ia moving among the dairy .farmers. - could.;/ not' help.' being struck -with:.;,thfe i fact thatttheSold' problem ,'of:"tutter:■ y.>;| cheese /is still unsolved.,.-ift- '/, /t'/Withbnt /one : exception' every dairyman, "conversed/,mthk-wasllopldhg forward; to •'; Certainly, things: are • cheery now, but one. noyer • lnows:'how • consistent ; or. . inconsistent • . .London is B°' n S to he!-' '• : /~X ife?..".' *Iri'^;Hawke's.\Bay ; :'and the/iWairarapai"; Sl/iliadfbusiness,Vto do.:/OTth/somft:bfz,/the| 0' sheep-farmers.and they.'too se'onicd.liopej; ful./of■.the-.result','of the.season's.'/.trans-i ?;,aotibn£/Spme^/bf?the:;bigrunholders;;iii:: •;V ; tthe .Wairarapajwere heavy: losers/' through • . the recent, severe slqrm,. but-, others " ap.'•//.;pear to' have escaped, rather lightly. . '-.industry which: is .'going, to; Stf/;^read^''is\/ ; . ; . inent's proposal to employ prison, labour ~/ • /.to. extend the. industry has not been well V ,Z;/-'received' in/ some": of the/chief-; districts,/ •/ and among "the individual growers there is plchty. of.eTidence-of. a desire to ; protest 1 against-the -movement.. From what -J , have heard, 'I am-of .tho opinion'_that /held} at?;Hastings:rnext.; mratli/vfill jbe ""I'"a very-;interesting, gathejing;":;.. .- .