BUDGET NO. IX.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1801, 14 July 1913, Page 4

BUDGET NO. IX.

The. questions as originally published in tho Country Life Issue of The Dominion ore as follow 1. Aro the Schools in your neighbourhood training boys and girls satisfactorily for life on the farm?- • а. Do the farmers in your neighbourhood get the returns they reasonably • . should from tho sale of their products? ' • 3. Do the farmers in your neighbourhood'receive from tho railways and roads tho service they reasonably should expect P 4. Do tho farmers in your neighbourhood receive from the postal service, • rural telephones,, etc.; tho service they reasonably should expect? 5. Are tho farmers in your neighbourhood obtaining direct benefit from tho holding of Agricultural Shows? б. Has tho work of the Department of Agriculture been of direct benefit ' . *.:to the farmers in your neighbourhood? 7. Are tho farmers and their wives in your neighbourhood satisfactorily organised to protect their mutual buying and selling interests? . 8. Aro the renters "of farms in your neighbourhood making a satisfactory * . living? : 1 9. Is'tho supply of farm labour in your neighbourhood satisfactory? 10. Are the conditions surrounding wage labour on the farms in your neighbourhood 'satisfactory ; to the labourer? ,U WHAT, IN YOUR JUDGMENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE THING TO BE DONE FOR THE GENERAL BETTERMENT OP ' ' COUNTRY LIFE?

Letters in answer to the questions to farmers published in the Country Lifo 1 issue of-'The Dominion of Juno 11 Inst still '. continue to reach this office dnily. i The greater number of . those now coming to handle from remote .and inaccessible ) 'localities,'dnd in this morning's installetters the ; views of the far-out back-blocks, settler will be found fully itatetl; -J It is proposed, to publish one morti budget of letters and then close the correspondence, after- which a general rc-jiew-pf the replies will be made; ; : : , ■ j , 1 1