FARMING IN NEW ZEALAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9535, 6 July 1909, Page 7

FARMING IN NEW ZEALAND.

A Morayshire farmer who recently settled in the Oamaru district writes to the "Scotsman" an interesting letter in the course, of which he says:—"l have never seen anything like the crops there are in some oi the paddocks around here and there are such large areas under crop that on some of the farms a gross total of £5,000 from'grain crops has been recorded this season. On some of the new settlements lately broken up by the Government the settlers will be able to make a splendid start. I j have now travered by foot and bike nearly the whola of the district around here and all I can say of it is that it is a splendid country. ferhapS it is still rough and rather treeless, but in time this will be remedied. Meantime the whole country is in a prosperous state; one cannot fail to see this in passing through the agricultural lands. It is true, the land is not farmed so thoroughly as is done in the Old Country, but I have no hesitation in saying that the farmer here knows his business better than the farmer at Home. His up-to-date implements, his six-horse ploughs and drills, and all other machinery give him a great 'pull' over I his brother farmer in the Old County. Many a hint could the Home farmer take from the New Zealander. All the latest cereal and green crops are tried by the farmer immediately they are introduced into New Zealand, and farmers seem to he always on the path of progress. Even their horses seem to ke better adapted for the work than agricultural horses at Home, for it i<< marvellous (o me, the hills I have seen-a six-horse go up, arid the drays a six-horse team can pull.''