A FARMER ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1421, 23 April 1912, Page 8

A FARMER ABROAD.

SOME INTERESTING IMPKESSIONS. The fact.that he never once during.bis recent tour of the. Old Country saw at any of tlfe shows he attended a display of New. Zealand products, or-a stand containing exhibits from the Dominion, was mentioned by Mr. G. M. Watt in n recent address before- • the Waikato . Farmers' Club. Mr. Watt said he had several talks with young men who were thinking of. leaving the.Old Country, and they seemed to know all about Canada, and nothing about New Zealand..except that in the latter country, one could get nothing but leasehold land, and that was no good to.them; they wanted freehold. At Ottawa Mr. M att visited the Experimental Farm, and was greatly struck with- what ho saw there. They, had a splendid herd of dairy cows, including most of the woll-knowu dairying. breeds. Each cow's milk was weighed and tested every morning and' evening, the work all being done by boys who were sent there to learn farming, the rales that if any of them were found cheating or not praperlv attending to their work they were dismissed at once. Cheeso and butter making .were dene on the farm. All kinds of pigs were kept and weighed weekly, each week's weight beinK marked up; their food was also weighed and recorded. The pigs that had done best there were what thoy called the Curly White. On the farm there were fine horses and sheep; tee and poultry keeping and gardening were taught, and the boys 'seemed to take great interest in their work. In Mr. Watt's opinion the railways in Canada were better managed than those of New Zealand. Goods and cattle trains are" usually rim at night. In railway construction Canada was far ahead ot New Zealand. For instance, before he left Auckland the line-makers wero working with wheelbarrows, but in Canada they were working steam diggers, which threw the earth into trucks. In the back country they mado the railways thero before they asked the people to settle in it.