The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913. THE MAN ON THE LAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 94, 20 December 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913. THE MAN ON THE LAND.

1 lie 'United States Commissioners who ivent to Sydney to urge Australia to take; part in the Panama Exposition of 1915 were entertained by the Million Club and at the function some talking was done. (Governor Adams expressed the view that to attain their object and get a million people in Sydney city the best course to follow was to got a million settlers to go upon “a great unpty hind.” When they once secured those million settlors their requirements and productivity would give them the million city men that they needed—they would represent progress, healthy and permanent. It was the tillers of the soil they required, ft was the man who ploughs, plants, ind reaps that was the imperative lecessity of civilisation. That was die man who, in the scales of the Almighty, would outweigh all the Napoleons of finance, who gathered in he marts of trade and manipulated he price of food. The man of the ■oil, and not the city man, was the nition. Th farm was the feeder to ■he city. He would rather look upon i continual vista of -Kl-acrc farms than m one farm of 40,000 acres. When hey got these small farms, where a iimily altar had been reared, and a amily was being developed, they would mve the props upon which empire hands. It was not the man in a dress nit. hut th<> man in overalls, who ilants , the foundation of a country. 1 't was also the man on the land who ook a strenuous part in the defence if his country. The dearest victories if freedom had been won hv the fa huts of England and America. In Aus-, ralia they had an empty land, with I 'ood soil and a good climate—all hey wanted was a million to develop, Is natural resources. All that A us-; ralia had to do was to tell the world chat she could offer. I

BLACKLEG REGULATIONS. The recent prosecutions which have boon brought against stockowners in this district under the regulations for the prevention of blackleg among catlb' should be a warning to owners of young cattle. Several deaths from blackleg having taken place throughant the district, it is most essential hat tin l regulations be conformed with in their entirety, and all pronressive owners of stock should use their best endeavours toward this end. Whilst the majority of farmers are keenly alive to the advantages of vac'ination, there are a few recalcitrants. \ho by their ana thy and carelessness, ire responsible for the continued existence of this contagions trouble, The

Department of Agriculture, through its officers, is indefatigable in its endeavour to cope with the disease and its ultimate eradication, and we are given to understand that any contravention of the regulations will he dealt with in a summary manner.