MORE GRIT AMONG FARMERS.

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

MORE GRIT AMONG FARMERS.

TARANAKI SUGGESTIONS, Mr. W. L. Kennedy, of Taliora, Taranaki, thinks co-operation is ono of tho greatest needs. H© writes:— I.—Our primary schools aro doing good work in the training of our boj-s and girls, but it would be an advantage were they to be more impressed with a love for rural life, and the great need of more producers and fewer parasites. 2.—farmers will not got tho best returns for their produce until there _ is more co-operation in all things, relating to buying and selling. . 3.—ln a young country such as ours, we cannot expect perfection. More is wanted to be done towards opening up tho back country. 4.—Wo have nothing but praise for tilio Postal Department; the telephone system wants expansion; it is one of the great needs of tho baok-country settlors. s.—Agricultural Societies aro doing good work. Tho benefits, of course, are more or less indirect. •G,—Yes,y tho Department of Agriculture is of direct benefit. 7—Thero is. no buying and selling organisation. . g—'Wo have no tenants savo those of tho Crown. Many of them in the early days liavo a hard struggle. Much of tho rough Crown lands is priced too high, and wliat with tho high wages and scarcity of labour, and also tho high cost of living, and grass seed (unless they start with a considerable capital), aro heavily handioapped. U.—No; labour is very scarce. 10.—Yes; 10s. per day, and hard-to get at that. ' 11.—Moro grit among tho farmers themselves. Co-operation to advertise their needs,-and legislators who have an earnest desire to help to make life easier and brighter for'the struggling settler, ■