Natal Natives Take Readily to Lessons in Modern Farming

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 16

Natal Natives Take Readily to Lessons in Modern Farming

DUEBAN.— Advancement in agricultural methods and a bid to maice better husbandmen of the Natal natives are showing gratifying results. H. J, Every, Assistant Director of Native. Agriculture, Natal, has just returned from inspecting locations, where ho found marked improvement in cultivation. The system followed is to place a demonstrator in an area. He has to find natives there who will give him a plot to work, to get into close contact with the inhabitants and gain their confidence. The agricultural department provides each demonstrator with a" plow, harrow, cultivator and planter to carry out the work. The properly cultivated field side by side with plots tilled on old-fashioix-ed lines provides an eloquent object lesson by its contrast. The stage has now been reaehed when some of the plots are equal to that of the demonstrator. By a new and comprehensive scheme, every distriet — the worst are being tackled first where congestion and oversloeking are most prevalent — is to be surveyed. Eecommendations will be made by tho Natal officials to the department as to which should beresidential areas, which for grazing and arable land. A great deal of feneing will be put up. Angus MaePherson, most suecessful undertaker in London, went home to Scotland on a visit. The little old town was uuchanged and the people honoured him with a banquet. In appreeiation he got up. and said: — - "Ladies and gentlemen, I want to do something for this community. There is only one thing that I do well. That ia to bury people. The MaePherson is known all over tho British Isles for its thoroughness. So I am going to give a free and complete first rate burial to the first person in this town who flies.' 7 Then he sat down and everyone went home. That night thirty-six Scotsmen committeed suicide.