IN TOUCH WITH NATURE.
"The man responsible for running any large mixed farm cannot help being in the closest touch with life; life from seed to comT pleted plant, from embyro to mature animal. He uses the instincts and exploits the ecstasies of the creatures on his ^ land. He is a sort of ' little god disposing of their fates, inodifying them within liinits to human purposes, assisting evolution. Why, the very wheat and other cereals have been hnmanly 'selected' from wild grasses: the kales and beets derive from small, wild specimens on the seashore. New 'breeds' of potatoes emerge, at the experts' hidding, every few years as the old varieties tire out. Farming is very near to Nature; hut not 'natural' — that is to say, it does not merely slide Natnre's way; there would be no progress so . . . For a farmer who cares to 'cud it over' and think out the meaning of things, these facts (and others) yield a variety of fascinating ideas that plumh some of the depths of life."— Mr W. J. Bylton in his hook, "Thf Rolling Year."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 4
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182IN TOUCH WITH NATURE. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 4
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