ADDRESS TO FARMERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1710, 29 March 1913, Page 8

ADDRESS TO FARMERS.

; SOUE 'IN'PERESTING QUESTIONS. - (By Telesrapli.—Special Correspondent.) .;'.ii' Christchurch, ■ In,his address at 'the fift'cehtli* annual ■meeting ofHie'; Canterbury A. and P. Association last night, Mr. J. D. Hall, the' retiring president, compared the objects of the association, according to the Agricultural i hiid Pastoral Societies Act, ■.with''the'.'."objects of the Royal Agricul-, tural Society of England, inaugurated 'in 1838, and said , that one clause, in*'the; latter might well bo included in the former, the clause being "to promote the comfort find welfare of labourers and encourage the improved management of their cottages and-gardens." ' ' Referring to the annual showY Mr. Hall remarked that the point-blank refusal by the,'implement-makers to join with the farmers 1 in their efforts to make the annual show a success, no .matter what collisions wets' made to them, did not augur well for the future, nor was it quite consistent with the implement-makers in endeavouring to obtain funds to enable them to fight'their own: battles agivlnst another.'section.of the community whom' they Were pleased to denounce as striving for syndicalism," Socialism, and anarchy. ' .After." comparing the yields of produce in other, countries, the comparisons being in favour of Germany,.Mr. Hall said that as a result of a comparison of this kind American agriculturists had been making inquiries as to the reasons for the larger yields .from German lands, and they had come to -the .conclusion that they were due to (1) the active and effective work that the.German Government had done to develop 'agriculture; (2) the excellent systetn of agricultural education that had been developed and the extensive system of scientific .research through agricultural stations that had been maintained in Germany ; -(3) the rapid development of efficient business; organisations that the farmers''had' perfected along co-operative lines,, particularly- in regard to credit. German, farmers to-day, through their land mortgage associations, wore carrying •£200,0011,000 in. farm loans, and they did notpay over 4 per cent, ifor any of .it, and in many cases .riot'over 3 per cent. A moments thoiHit' would convince anyone that the work of tlie New Zealand Government in tho"past,-so.far as developing agriculture was conccrnedX had been neither ac-tive-nor effective, and i"t was pood news to hear that the present Minister pro-, posed •to effect some changes by creating a, Board ..of .Agriculture which unisjht passibly: have the effect of convincing him that .'it was .'just .as desirable at the preseut, time, to,-develop methods which would result' in ■•materially increasing the yields from;, their ..arms in Canterbury, as it n'aS-.to;'settjfl. (lie back-blocks. With regard' to' the ■ third reason given for the increased yields of Germany, viz."The development;''of business organisations along co-operative lines, especially with regard to "agricultural credits," ho need hardly say that at the present time every farmer in the community would welcome any organisation which would provido him with money at 3 ner cent., or even ■I per cent., and if thcro was a possibility of -making provisions of this kind. It was. extremely desirable that farmers should' endeavour to ascertain what it was .th'at.'Jgoverned and controlled the .siipply of money available for .mortgage loans-to "farmers. Different people who theorised "nif the subject assigned different reasons responsible for the variation in the'siipply of money, such as (1) the financial operations of the Government in borrowing large sums for various public pnrj>ososV(2) 'tho methods nf bnnjvs which carried ■mi business in Australia.as well, lis Now Zealand,' and divert New Zealand moneys for use in the .Commonwealth; (3) the increase or decrease ef our <'Xpoi't's".as compared with our imports; <4) the subdivision of large estates, and tho subsequent' l.withdrawnl" of the procteds 'of the sales consenuewt themeon from New Zealand. ■ Whatever the reasons might bo, "it must be admitted that tho farmers, who were the borrowers, were the "neonle who had. to pay, and there could be little doubly that there were somo .Tiinrieiers who had considerably more information on the point than the farmer, and that when it wa.s a case of financier'.v.. farmer, tho_ odds would generally bo on the financier.

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