CORRESPONDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 30, 23 August 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Farmers' Clubs We are not responsible for the opinions of (our correspondents. TO THK EDITOR OF TUB STAB Sir, — I should like, through the medium of your Taluable paper, to offer ■a suggestion to the farmers of this diatnct. That is. the formation of a I Farmers' C'lb. The benefits wjiieh. ! arise from such ft club, directly, or. inj direc'.ly, may be seen in the wonderful I assistance which the Grangers Clubs rendered to the cause of farmef* .in America ; and to come : 'nearer honto, I may mention the New ' Zealand FarfhWM* Co-operative Association, in ; Canterbury, which was started by the Amberley Farmers' Club. I was for many' years a member of one of the oldest clubs ot the kind in Canterbury, and hare seen the great advantage accruing to farmers from meetings and the consequent diffusion of ideas arising therefrom. A club such as I suggest could obtain a room ia the town where meetings might be held at certain times, and which would act as. an exchange for the members, and where books and papers of Qse to farmers might be kept. At the meetings, members would read papers on any subject pf interest that might crap op, the consequent discussion of whfrh would certainly benefit the members at large. Then again there is the subject of agricultural shows, the great utility of which to. a district requires no comment from me. Such a club as I suggest might very well inaugurate a show which, although at first perhaps small, would soon develop larger proportions. To demonstrate from what small proportions such an institution may grow, I will mention that to which I belonged. In 1877, when we held our first show, the membership of the dub was about 20, and the Bomber of entries, if I remember right, 40. Last year the roll of members showed 70 and the number of entries at the s&ow comprised oftr 400, while the club has bow a ■howground of its own with yards and a public dip rained at £300. 1 am sow tha> jf you took the matter wp we should soon see a Farmer's (Jab itt^fatt taring <ia this district, and I wonid • suggest that a meeting should be called to- consider the , establishment of such a club. In such a ease I should be very glad to obtain for the promoters all the information relative to the best method ot working. I am, &c.. B. C- Tjukuco. Feilding, August 19th, 1884.