RURAL ENGLAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2351, 18 November 1908, Page 2

RURAL ENGLAND.

AN AUSTRALIAN’S VIEWS

A delightful picture of rural England is . presented to colonial readers in the pages of the ‘ ‘Sydney Daily Telegraph” by Mr. Harry Gullctt, an Australian journalist of distinction. The scene is near Dorking, .'in Surrey, only twenty miles from Loudon, where one looks across ‘.'miles of meadow lands and cultivated fields, across a ! beautiful expanse of this historic soil, wth its little clearings, itc clumps of elms and beeches and chestnuts, and many other trees we have hitherto known only as aliens,” where the eye lingers on manor houses and farmsteads and thatched cottages, church towers and old mills, and one feels more completely than in either St Paul’s or the Abbey “what it is to be one of this breed of Englishman.” The smallness of everything astonishes the Australian. The tiny fields with their hedges seem too small for a team of horses; the little flocks of sheep feeding or lying on little lawns provoke laughter, and are reminiscent of the Australian motherless pet lamb which lias grown “cheeky” .about the homestead. One marvels at the adaptability which enables the Englishman bred “in these beautiful, irregular, tiny gardens” to make himself at home in a very few years in the great space of the colonies. The difference between ploughing in Surrey and ploughing on Australian wheat lands is like the difference between navigating a barge in the crowded Thames and taking a liner across the Pacific. The Surrey farmer is old-fashioned. His implements are of an old type, and he is wasteful of land and labor. His straggling hedges are often .a chain wide, and j his teams waste much time in turning in the little fields. An Australian would probably at once root up half I the hedges, .and so effect a consider-

able saving*in land and labor. The characteristic of the landscape is contentment. Everything on four legs in England seems to be “rolling fat.” Mr. Gullett lias not seen an animal out of condition since lie arrived in the country. In one .respect, at least, the English farmer sets an example to the Australian. Provision lor winterfeeding is one of the first principles of English farming, a principle which the Briton generally forgets when he emigrates. In Australia he is caught napping in a year of drought, and failure to store up feed often costs Kim his stock, and sometimes his fortune. “If the Australian grazier and farmer went to one-fifth of the trouble to store fodder against tlm occasional but periodical drought which the, Englishman takes against every winter, he would turn what is in a lot of our light rainfall country a game of chance into an industry as safe and regular in its returns as British Con- ! sols, with the difference that his dividends would be ten or twenty times greater.”

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