DOES FARMING PAY?

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 28 August 1926, Page 8

DOES FARMING PAY?

"STAR'S" SPECIAL ARTICLES. COMMENCING TO-DAY'S ISSUE. f; ' " Commencing to-day the "Auckland Star" is publishing a most comprehensive series of articles which are of undoubted interest to the whole community. The articles are entitled, "Does Farming Pay!" and the first of the series will be found on page 18. The questions discussed are all absorbing ones, which not only affect the man on the land but also those in any other walk of life. From exhaustive investigations which have been made there is ample evidence to show that the position is most serious, and the urgent need is to find a remedy. As the result of extensive research work carried out in America it has been shown that some of the farmers' costs of production have increased - "l>y over 600 per cent. It is also stated that £1 earned by the average farmer is worth less than 10/ compared with the earnings of other trades and industries. The "Star's" articles indicate what the immediate and imperative need in the Dominion is to place the pastoral and agricultural industries on a sounder financial footing. Farming is New Zealand's leading industry as 95 per cent of the Dominion's exports are of a primary nature. There is, however, a wide field for development, and the many phases of it are dealt with in the articles. '/■