DIFFICULTIES OF FARMING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1033, 12 August 1879, Page 3 (Supplement)

DIFFICULTIES OF FARMING.

Jtuch has been saitl and written about ! o cultivation of land and the rearing of if®, stock, and great! improvements have Vim effected from the ingenuity of men ; Hi-t.s and science ; but for alt that has said and done, there is often such a Jiwrsity of opinion on "knotty points" moiiSist eminent men. that a man of 'inilucato intellect is often baffled which "jiiuiutt to adopt, aa being best calculated Jj'i pi-miiote his interest. Some think that IIV . one may farm land, and that there is I,'t,nmch to think of to ensure success. U ; ii hiW» always- been, and stilt are. uf a Jilforent opinton,. and betieve thf-re is as Imielf scope for the exercise of i'nteljectnal w '„rs in' ngritfulturo as there is in f.-l-iiiivinu' up any other art or scicnso in the Itni'kl. To tiio studioua farmer every day brings for til something new, arid the oldest and iiicst experienced admit, when there fiii'wi' i» n«fl« am end. that they were only |)i.»inniniC to know a little of fclws laws of Vivtui'o- A farmer, like the general of an ' inl )y, wiptipßS tn bo continually on tbe «jli!h: new difficulties daily arise; he Certain thing to-morrow ; weather, or some other elements "j.jch hint to shift his position tanit hav--continuiiliy new and tin fori seen ditlicities to tiieet, his anxiety increases. ?nd ism ind expands to meet the clifficnlty. IVith all these troubles before him, I'm rises early and enjoys much pleasure in vatuliixuf tliO' progress of experiments ia [jisgrowing crops ; sees his stock of ivll iiiiiis continue to increase : spps the th-his in all their loveliness ; and hears the son;.' J the'sweet warblers in the wood* niciiMurns which go far to make tip for his l; ,nl toil and stormy blasts.