EXPORT OF BRAINS
Sir,-Since acquiring a slight conception ef what it:takes to be a good farmer I am just a little tired of reading the above hackneyed phrase. Why not say "best academic brains" and thus be a little more accurate? It takes courage and decision, with knowledge of many kinds, to be a successful farmer-knowledge of all kinds of stock, sick and well, of animal births, and their abnormalities, of soil treatment, crop rotation, and its planning, an understanding of markets, some degree of "weather-wisdom," a good knowledge of mechanical implements, their use, and their runnifig repairs, the handling of seasonal and full-time labour, the knowledge and skill required for efficient fencing, tree-planting, etc-we have and hold all this, and yet are~still told that our best brains are being exported! What rot! They’re right here on our
well-run farm holdings.
H.
SHAW
(Hawke's Bay).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 14
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145EXPORT OF BRAINS New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 474, 23 July 1948, Page 14
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