ENGLISH FARMING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 951, 19 April 1930, Page 25

ENGLISH FARMING

THROUGH CANADIAN EYES Criticism may not always be pleasant. but it may sometimes be useful, states au exchange. At any rate, whether always deserved or not. it can do no particular harm. A Canadian farmer who was over in England remarked that he did not vender that some British farmers found it difficult to make both ends meet. There were two things, he said, which struck him very forcibly soon after he got there. The first had to do with the amount of time spent by certain farmers at neighbouring markets, ‘‘At different markets.” he said, “you meet the same men time aud again. Some of them must spend half the days of the week at markets and, judging by the amount of time they spend talking to one another about things in general, one would imagine that farming to them was just a sideline, or a hobby instead of their real business in life. Carelessness was another point he raised, particularly in regard to ini plements and buildings. As he went along in the train he had noted the deplorable state of farm buildings and also the number of implements—self binders and what not—left about in the fields just where they were last used weeks or months ago. “There must be a sight of good capital lost that way,” he remarked, “and if any of my men left things lying about as they seem to be allowed to do over here, there would be some trouble. I can tell you.”