FARM WORK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3113, 18 June 1917, Page 8

FARM WORK

making the best op things. ''Naturally farmers are making the y best of things, and are pxisliiujj on -wit.h s their team work while they have the s chance," says "Apricola" in the "larmiers' Union Advocate." "For the past d ten <la,vs thero has been a lot of proe gross made; indeed, some fanners have s got in all the wheat they intend 'to sow e before winter. A few acres will go in When the spring cornea., but it is safe to say that the bulk of the grain is now sown. Of course there are some belated men who are not much further ahead than at commencement. It will serve some of them right if they are caught. Others have been hindered on account of the difficulty of filling places that have been vacated by men called up in the ballot. It is felt in many quarters that the Minister of Agriculture was not speaking with the consent of the Minister of Defence when ho said that the ! men who would put in wheat could ; exemption. Of coarse, the near approach of the calling up of the Second Division is causing some pressure to bear on the Military Appeal Boards to pet in all the First Division men that they can. But it would • have been better to have never made, a promise <hat could Jiot. be fulfilled .than to have led some to entertain Jalso hones. The sowings that have been made during the past, ten days or • more- have been- : mnde under pood conditions as far as the state of the land is concerned, and the crops that are coming un are looking exceptionally well."