The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1890 A Defence

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 98, 11 February 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1890 A Defence

There is just now a good deal of " blow " in certain quarters about what the Yaukees do, and the vigorous style in which they push enterprise, and so ou and so on, as compared with the people of this and the sister colonies ; but like any other reputation whose foundation is based on similar gaseious matter, it won't bear close investigation. In America from the nature of the climate, farmers and others eau, and do, ouly work about seven months in the year, while , for the remaining five months they either hybernate or depart for some warmer part of the world. Which ever they do is of no great conse quence, because their movements or inertia then have nothing whatever to do with the point at issue, as tbey are uot accountable for the weather. Now, in the case of the New Zealander, he has to work twelve months in the year, and keep at it all the time, so that if you take the number of hours put in by a New Zealand farmer and compare it with that of the Yankee, the latter has to take a seat a long way back. The New Zoalander can work for at least 2400 hours in the year, but the Yankee only 1600, therefore he needs to be in a hurry, while our more fortuuate laborers can go fair and easy and get more work done in, very probably, a much better, if more liesurely, fashion In our grandfather's days it used to be said : " They do these thiugs hotter inFrance," and now we say: "They do these things better in America," and we are just as wrong as were the "dear departed." That the average Englishmau is not so good as the average Yankee is pure buncombe.