FARMING IN WAITAKI.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 878, 7 February 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)

FARMING IN WAITAKI.

(From the In the essays on '< liotation a published in tho Hew turist, and one of which wo P where, wo discover no, the circumstances which have being written, or of the exact forms the subject of discourse. of tho essay by '■ nem" will discern therein g believing that tlie North tion has expressed a desire essays on the system of a.? r ' c adapted for the district of such comments as we shall essay before us will be assumption. The writer ' lils oyer tho, threshold before e inculcate the exerciso of caution, foresight and seems to imagine that tho bod} he is writing is anxiously Waitaki one of the granaries of and he wisely cites the warning" which " teaches that not one o<*H countries which produced com lands in the past have MU . „■ makers." Foresee in this, tlie tually says, the probablo fut "lM country, if you direct your growing of corn for other " Great Britain has contributed towards rendering lands of the United States «■ which have supplied her with cisely as ancient Rome robb^? e Sicily, and the rich lands of coast of their fertility. Do ff fo»M author, " not exDort both meat 1 What equivalent do ' ve "jM The warning note here re yjM been struck many times in tw The Australasian. Almo A thought of the various Gov !*sM these Colonies has been how'. most effectually tho prad« in quantities sufficient f° r e X^ e less of th<s teachings of which, declare that a co " ntr^; s tfi3lM exports wheat must at n° b.ecome, agricultiirally) a I 1

H countries" aStti'nMW* wew ■ «*"?"■ f I "wise for €fr« ? at, f'rvtom, w»TJ ■ by' l "" 1 " ~,-., ol'laud in Smith Australia, tli»so" i:t '" ! "' ' ~u i tbo othwr great wnwat- ■ th« Wl "" m i 'tpi'et* o" Victoria, render ■ | ■•>*)««. j,,',,] U p„n: whieh they are mt * ril ° Tit thov continue to gmw wheat W '"vfpß.wly in- the wlu.lo of ■ ..'f " sp "Ai; ( .rn and south-eastern ♦.'otomes ■ thrtw,*"'.'' , tmi ..t»„t country which art- ■ may ll " 'l, ,„u,tu«.ge(ouf ""* " f - «&» ■ *TIWm ™ '<D si "'Ply hrwuia^tflO ■ ttiiiil nrsf [ it „ inabdity to continue I w That it has not been rendered ■ barren- as some of the ■ 10 IIC ,:,,.,,.,, the Romans drew their ■ P'"I"'* 1 "'* () f "rain « owm <*' to tb * ■ BUVpI IOS . . "briefer duration of the ■ u«»'l»«? B ' (L lvl 'J, ll . BIM , and to the earty ■ Hooiifgni!-. intn ii u(i ■ n ' 11 "'" "t iiiu'so the idea that the land rwI l l,t "","!'' pirtimrugo has lost nothing in ■ tlirm mUi'ue. or that it is losing nothing ■ e!l " '"' tpivu Mhi tive stock carried nothing I n "*' ■„ their bono «" tshwir wool; does ■ »** y h rtioii of milk not impoverish the ■ *?, l 'Z is anything done to afford comI s( " 1; for the robbery! ft has been ■ P°Tlnd with considerable truth, that the I f L which, in our dry .climates, yield ■ bwTt "i wheats aro not adapte.l for I ( thi' systems of rotation, which I * tlitf oli"J-*»>t« of Britain have become I ~i!i»'d as adequate to the maintenance I T'fhut.d's fertility. The author of the ■ "' " „lsuwhortJ tias recognised the fact ■ V ?K w> vm ! »" /st * :<n ' vi rotation can ■ Mv answer the requirements of ■ ?T™nt kinds of soil, under different ■ a T„t H tv to say that any one system is I f"Set one and the other two I iiff " Wne mere circumstance may H ffrt J'lhim in accepting the three years I Jl !wn, l»i» l '^ !vt hand neigllboc may with H * J ',al iu»bi«w accept the four years plan, H 'tl lub left hand friend may shrewdly H "limfec tilo fivo y mc> * "°*"' l ' ,i,>n ,vs f,iu ' bv»t H Sim. 'P' u ' l ' o art ' tsm "* t ' wh<> will millii - | y!is ß(ivts that one certain cereal must of H ( «e»ity. iu & w & ' Mra ™!* v follow another H 'lrtaiii liovoal,. and that to depart from this ■ 1|« in mi infringement of an established ■ y,, nmkmg no all.>wanci> for possible cir- ■ -ißulwiw* This is objectionabfe. U ■ i« in tllo highest degree objectionable. He I #)i(i aoiitiimcs to farm successfully during I lißiWßHnwMon, lind Ko wt:, h' x & land in as ■ „ W iil condition—at* fertikv cleani, iwid prt>I (luotivu us when it camo into his hands ■ will lli' v) ' ouruud th» satisfaction of feeling ■ thatliu luis made himself master_of the ■ ohitiwti'r and requirements of his parI tioilliu' l>l" ,jit ' IUU * tnufe ' it} l! * d,m * f s I (liitysiicuimsftiily. libit ho is not on that I uucuunfc tc proclaim that ho has discoveredI n systuni of farming which all should I fiiliuw, i>r which, if they do so follow, will I result us happily as in his case, speaking I inniuKilly. a long series of potation—one in I whivtl ijnvin crops occur with comparative I tflrity,"and in which green crops and I grasses liu-goly predominate—aro calcuI liitwl ti> luave lund in the best condition in I thtf long run. in the last column of the I nam* will he found suggestions on this I mint which deserve to bo carefully I (ligosUnl.