AGRICULTURE IN HAWKE'S BAD.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 534, 16 December 1867, Page 2

AGRICULTURE IN HAWKE'S BAD.

To the Ed-tor of the Haicle's Bag Times.

Sill, — The Herald on Tuesday ha* * leader adcocuUny ayncud arc, but 1 handy agree ic'dh some oj the ideas therein contained on this very important subject. It is doubtless the thing that is tea,dal in this Produce, but where small farms are eonji ssedlg a failure, larye ones run nut sneered. I! e canid not grow an oak ia a ... .7 where the awn. iconid iu i geruuuo.de. rad (he sapUng wither. Agriculture is an oak, and ich'de the arrangements of the place are such that if cannot grow, it Is Idle to talk of large farms. 1l r e mast hare tittle farmers first, and if a man on a small piece of land cannot earn a sufficiency by firndag, the eight policy of the Produce aud Cidon/p is to muse a state of things where such a fuel is pujssible. If a netc rhioii amn-'s ! farms ticenfif arrrs vf\ hull', aid thriras t.g it. if is J,l,lilt Hull he is jU’'ug\ huns:lf Joe a h.-rg v far, a. and as his eupiUJ. and , e.cp nance in,■inane. he is the ,nnn who ic'/l get .v.'.v steam plough* and ee d'entors, for tools eiW Ti/i----t/u: hand that will use than'. The .Product: has jneafy of land, horses, men, and rn.aflon, bat ij t ••■, oa siua.e 0/ t/'/r.n time at such Jaiadans prices that (hag can nut be. used for j the prodci loin of food, nw cannot a.i'n ’at ugrandi arc Ito Jirosji. r. Ercrg ok tempt id if if late yews has been a failure, a,hi the parent of Hod fail < re is land specniatwn. Lane l mast be sold, like potatoes, fur as meeit money as d will fetch, and mutton must be sold at what d is worth before the new \vhnrf has a cargo of Eujiicr-groicn corn on it. The real curse of the place is those who rnouopotue the hind, and th us p’under the firmer of his profit. ’ The Herald (hoiks settlers are oblidons to the tad that (he place is being drained of cash fur the purchase of farm, produce , but sett'yes are very well aware of it, nor could any he e.rtwdcd to attempt to pretend it when he benefits everybody else dud himself by the transaction. I bcliece the na/ices hare already more money ' than (hey earn, and leasing then' land mol making 'it into farms would be only enriching them. I think if they can't earn their own maneg they ought to be beggars, as paying them rent for their waste land is Just keeping them drunk for the sake of--patriotism, I could not afford it, and I hare no doubt tent there are many others in the same case. I think if a natiec can get money for what cost him nothing he ought to think himself wed off, without getting it ercrg yegr. I agree that the enl/lcation of wheat is the thing I that is wanted—hied is, wheat muei be grown at -ir per bushel, and pug the farmer as well as any oilier ‘ undertaking. Food is the great necessity ; if the place cannot grow its own food it can never thrice : j and if the land and tabor cannot be used for this] ■purpose it has very Utile value hi reality, though fictitious prices may took different. The money for I a hag of wheat represents the labor it is worth to\ I vroduee if. !

Then if Ihc bag of wheat costs more money than it will fetch, the difference is the amount of humbug the farmer has to contend with. I beticee a bushel of wheat here costs about (!.» Gd to grow, and is worth about after it is grown. Now, if wc cannot grow the bushel of wheat for 3,? or 6d, it is tittle use to c.rpect people to farm. People come here to make money , and that must be the basis of the question. Let all Hie farmers in ike Province see that growing wheal will nay them better than anything else, and the whole thing is done—every one wilt grow it.

I think the Meanec and Pukctapu districts well suited for farming as a whole, but then are not farmed because settlers fnd that they arc only | sinking their money without any return if they cnltivate. Therefore, having tried it, they sow i! in grass, because it is less expense. What is true of the Meanee and Pukctapu districts, is true anywhere else. If corn cannot is grown profitably close to the port , where the land is fenced and broken, how can it pay to go farther away to spend money in fencing and breaking up anew ? Surely that too would end in grass as soon as the new settlers found out the facts of the case.—l am, s~c., ISAAC £. SUTTON, Meanee, 13 (k Dec.,- 1567.