BETTER FARMING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 168, 3 August 1937, Page 6

BETTER FARMING

'"Many people have been tempted, in times past, to make short cuts to prosperity, to beat. their ploughshares -into swords and to live in luxury by the sweat of their slaves and oaptives. But this plan, apart from proving ruinous to their morals, has not proved a permanent sucpess. The greatest object lesson on the other side is to.be steen in Denmark or Holland. There men have fought their battles not with their fellow men, but with the moor and sea. Their ♦ achievement is not small. They have come aear to abolishing poverty; they have won leisure and education, comfort and freedom. And the foundation of the whole ediflce has been better farming. We ourselves have squandered a good deal of land in these past sixty years — poisoned the soil with smoke, covered it with slagheaps; let our rivers silt up and drown the land that our grandfathers pain-' fully laid 4ry; we have let the thorn and bramble come again on land they cleared with much sweat. But at last we are beginning to be a little ashamed, and are giving a measure of encouragement towards repairing the damage. The damage can he largely repaired." — Professor J. A. §cottJjVatson and May Elliot Hobbs in Great Farmers.