OLD FARMER HODGE.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 136, 10 June 1926, Page 6

OLD FARMER HODGE.

HIS GENERATION PAST. No Slowgoers Now. A Scientific Industry. “ Country people used to be looked upon as a slow-going lot,” said Mr. A. E. Missen, president of the Jersey Breeders’ Association of New Zealand, When lecturing before the Matamata Jersey Breeders’ Club recently, “ but, believe me, that day is past. The time is coming when the townspeople will be brought to realise that the farmers are the backbone of the Dominion. Our exports prove that. New Zealand is a new country, but is progressing rapidly, and the tremendous improvements effected in connection with the dairying industry are astounding. I can well remember the old slush-and-mud days, but superfine butter was not made then. New Zealand is now in tire forefront as regards farming conditions. Delegates from abroad have been amazed at our progress and have said that the factories of New Zealand were an object lesson to Canada and other countries. Australia found that their factories had to be brought up to New Zealand standard if their butter was to keep. They bad spent over £600,000 in this object, and New Zealand would have to look to its laurels and maintain quality, otherwise they must take a secondary place.”