A PHILOSOPHER FARMER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1012, 27 February 1912, Page 4

A PHILOSOPHER FARMER.

The N.Z. Dairyman (Wellington). which Mr Fred. Greville so ably and successfully conducts, has struck a clever patch in a new series of articles appearing in, his journal. They read almost as i drawn from Mr Greville’s own wide experience, and bear the title, “Letters of a Self-made DairyFarmer to His Son.” The letters are written from “Out-back Farm” by “John Dairyman” to his sou who is studying in Wellington, and are full of good phrases and sound philosophisiugs, “You may become so great a modern that you will never be seen again upon the land.” “We dairy farmers are just as eager today to get 136 s per cwt. for our produce in the London market as in any previous year in our existence.” “We wear no coat of arms save that which carries the arms of our coat.” “All we have to pride ourselves upon in the way of a printed record is the brand we register in the Herd Book.” “Both your parents belong to the stock known as hirst Settlers.” “Take advice, my sou ; but always act on your own findings.” “I would rather have you broken into the ways of the city than have the city break you.” “Walk straight, my son, and look straight. ... I would have

you lean your neck right back on your collar.” Good stuff that. No wonder the Greville Letters are being talked about.