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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 59, 7 September 1893, Page 2

We are not altogether surprised to learn that the attempt to form a Farmers' Club at Ashurst has failed. Whether it is in " Alice in Wonderland "or " Through the Looking Glass " we do not remember, but in one of them may be found the lines : " No birds were flying in the air, Thero were no birds to fly." Substitute fanners for birds and —there I you are. The Manawatu Times says on ! the subject, that a number of the settlers 1 are comparatively new to tho work of I farming, and he cannot understand why the farming community should be so slow to recogniso the advantages to be gained by associating themselves together. For ourselves we are gradually forming the opinion that farmers, whether inexperienced or the reverse, know very well what is good for themselves, and in the end generally manage to get it. What they do not like is to have anything forced upon them, and sometimes these clubs are such a direct attack upon their pockets that a little shyness is, to say the least of it, pardonable.