Woodville Examiner.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1360, 1 December 1884, Page 4

Woodville Examiner.

Of all schemes for the advance** xnent of the welfare of \ people none is more effective than co-operation. It enables so much more work to be done with so much less capital that the J>enefit derived by those applying the principle is immense. We know of no district where co"opera* tion could be more successfully worked than the Woodville district. Let us take an iu stance. A machine called Lintbn's Stump Extractor is advertised m oar columns for use on bush farms. We have heard many speak well of it, and iis' use wonld "be invaluable m a bush district where timber hau been foiled some years, and the stumps only require to be extracted m order that the ground may bo m a fit condition for ploughing. When stumping has to pc done by manual labor it becomes very expensive. The machine to which we refer :i« offered for about £20, Now while it would not pay one farme rto buy it solely for his own use, it would pay twenty to do so, the cost of of each being only about £1. A more evident instance of the advantages of co-opera-tion we need hardly produce. Again, m regard to the cheese factory, thero is | much room for co-operation amongst farmers. Where one cannot afford to buy a trap, horse, and harness to convey milk to the facs tory, four, ; Bix, or more settlers might raiee amongst them the ueces* •ary amount, and thus each individual would secure the same convenience at a minimum of cost. There is practically no limit to the extent to which oo«operatinn can be applied amongst farmers, and we feel sure that were this prinsiple only realised, the'settlers themselves would Boon derive' an , inestimable benefit from its adoption, m that they could work on a minimum of capital, while they would reap the highest advantages. It is to be regretted that local and personal jealousies stand so much against the application of the principle, else all would be the better for it. As years pass by, and the district becomes more settled, we have no doubt that farmers will view the matter m the sa tie light, and as the land becomes suitable fur crop growing, the opportunities o£ putting cos Operation to a practical test m th» way we have suggested will double less bo applied. . Then new and ex~ pensive machinery will require to be introduced, and where it will not luit one farmer, to. incur th& cost, by the co-operation of a dozen or twenty settlers the cost will be found reduced to a very small item indeed. In this way the fullest advantages may beobtained at the smallest cost, capital is saved from an unnecessary expenditure, and the application of the principle will be foubd a great factor m the prosperity oi the district adopting it. , ■