FARMING IN ENGLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 4

FARMING IN ENGLAND.

Bfchfer Dooglaa McLean, of Hawke's Bay, SpSrt® has just returned from % tour of pilqti Britain and the ' Continent of jp'j£uap*t in an interview with a Kapier jtennattar. said:—"ln England, 1 visited EffWHie estates in Leicestershire and Lin-' and saw something of the [KJPf -n which farming in carried on. The IratjmeJi differs very considerably bom glpMn, one of the points being the large «pnditare for buildings used for houaRlDf'CtOek and for winter feed. Xo doubt Kftfca eare the farmers take of their ani&"jnal» aeeounts for the prices they get, gigftttt ttili their profits are not so good |§>iia night be expected considering that have the largest market in the fifc jmrld at their doors, As a whole farm--SfNlg i- 1 is not in a very satiscondition. There is a tremenIf dona and increasing competition, and y, it Mt ns io me that the land has to bear 100 1 rge a proportion of the rates and fpt'lalei Ko doubt these charges were fcj/jnipo 3d and grew up when tarmiug a a much more prosperous condi- §,*?« now. As to foreign competi- j Button, - notice at Smithfield that a great had taken place. At one time frozen meat could only be seen , in a 'ew stalls, but now it is practi- » sally n every alternate one. At Smith- - field, 1 gathered that there has been a - very Teat improvement in the quality .* if tk Argentine beef and mutton, as is

when we consider the enormous • muck Ms of atud stock Great Britain owl elsewhere to improve Argentine !;jpod» anJ herds. As for New Zealand \ '«eat. ita >ile has • very wide support. • 3fott ay see it in the windows of gro- ' ten. i > well as butchers, and, of course, 'it is ery favorably thought of. Judgjag 1 oat the number of times i saw I CanU bury lamb advertised, I was i.iLrw l with the conviction that more ' "wab s said to be imported into Eng- ' IpH rom the province of Canterbury • tian ' rem all other parts of New Zea- ' bad . "gether."