REFORM AND THE FARMER.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 281, 25 November 1921, Page 8

REFORM AND THE FARMER.

(To the Editor.) j Sir,—How fortunate Mr. Massey and j his party arc in having the farmer doped into believing that the Government are having an anxious time, and they must be supported. 1 want to let the" farmer know thilt the Liberals put the dairy industry in its present healthy j condition, and the Tory party will very i soon have it in a wretched condition. | Mr. Maeaey has no reason to complain I if n farmer from Ireland advises him not to make the whole country suffer because he has a difference with the meat trust. If the farmer does not get an opportunity to unload his cattle that have proved unfit for dairying he is going to retain stock which should be turned in the boneyaru or fattened for the butcher. The dairy cow in New Zealand is the absolute main spring and backbone of our prosperity. Every unfriendly country (to Britain) has ■scored by the English-Irish domestic trouble ill the lengthy past. So will the South American butchers applaud New Zealand's stand in fighting Armour and Co., but while the fight goes on, Massey versus Armour, Argentine scores and the prospect of clean herds for the future years in New Zealand is very black. The soldier will go to the market to purchase cows ami he will take to his farm cowe with icontagimis mammitis, etc. Oh, it's deplorable to think of the short memory of the farmer! The pre-eent party foa.9 done not one thing to purify your" herds. It was all done before they took—yes took—office, and they arc eoine to land the farmer on the rocks. I am etc., CON.