HUANGARUA SMALL FARMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 81, 10 February 1879, Page 2

HUANGARUA SMALL FARMS.

?'o the Editor of the Waibabapa Daiit; ; you be good enough' to permit me to occupy a small portionof your valuable space upon tho';above : question. I am wpll aware that it would haye been better had I done so while the matter was undersuch warm consideration a short while buck, I have read , with 'interest two letters written to . your Journal ;>by " Civis," who must have a good knowledge of the workings of small farms before he attempted to write about'them, and not a "runholder" who : wasaverse to the cutting up of large rpiis, as a Mastertoii correspondent of the Standard termed him. By the bye,'the Masterton correspondent .of. the Standard'does not show up with much credit in tlie. article in question, I consider it a piece of flunkeyism and beneath notice, I have also read it leading article'ilvtho Standardupori" the same subject,"and'for the lifo of me I cannot make out why it was written, except to show-the: writer's inconsistency. He, in the first place, points out the length of tinie he was 'connected with small farms, both hero, and in Canada'; and although lie has'not been to all appearance successful in 'either, still he advocates the'advantage'of small farms. So do I advocate small farms to a certain extent, but not in fifty-aai'o sections on a hill-side for agricultural purposes, and I hold that " Civis!' must, know more about the Huangarua estate and: the quality of the land than the writer of ..the article in question, who, if he knows anything about' it, must also know that it is' perhaps the worst situated property in the Wairarapafor small farm settlement. I do not go by what I have experienced in Canada or anywhere else alone, but by.; the almost universal testimony'of,small farmers in •the valley.' : '/■ And then, he, actually compass the Huangarua to the Hutt, who has had such extended knowledge of small farms as he asserts ■ lie; has, I certainly .would expect something better from •him than try and mako people .believe that a small farm on the Huangarua estate would be as good as one ; at the Hutt, Hoping you will excuse me: for occupying .so much of your space,—l am, &0., Smau Famer. Lower "Valley, Feb, 8, 1879. [We think it would be better if our correspondent discussed the Small Farm question without unnecessary - personal allusions.—Ed. W. D.]