FARMERS AND THEIR NEEDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1793, 4 July 1913, Page 4

FARMERS AND THEIR NEEDS.

MORE COUNTRY LETTERS.

AN INTERESTING AUCKLAND REVIEW. BUDGET NO. VII. « 1. Are the Schools in your neighbourhood training boys and girb satisfactorily for life on the farm? 2. Do the farmers in your neighbourhood get the returns they reasonably should from the sale of their products? S. Do the farmers in your neighbourhood receive from the railways and roads the service they reasonably should expect? i. Do the farmers in your neighbourhood receive from the postal service, rural telephones, etc., the service they reasonably should expect? 5. Aro the farmers iu your neighbourhood obtaining direct benefit from the holding of Agricultural Shows? 6. Has the work of the Department of Agriculture been of direct benefit to the farmers in your neighbourhood? 7. Are the farmers and their wives in your neighbourhood satisfactorily organised to protect their mutual buying and soiling interests? 8. Are the renters of farms in your- neighbourhood making a satisfactory living? 9. Is the supply of farm labour in your neighbourhood satisfactory? 10. Aro the conditions surrounding wage labour on the farms in your neighbourhood satisfactory to the labourer? 11. WHAT IN YOUR JUDGMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE THING TO BE DONE FOR THE GENERAL BETTERMENT OF COUNTRY LIFE?