GUARANTEES AND QUALITY.
Guaranteed prices have raised a crop of questions, not the least of which is that of farm instruction. If the State guarantees a return to the farmer it has the right, and the duty, to require the use of the best methods, of production. There is already some incentive in this direction in the proposal for premium payments on high quality butter, but there may be farmers to whom an incentive of this kind is not enough. They may be content with a price which gives them a guaranteed profit, without striving to get a little extra, but the State, if it has a stake in the product, cannot be similarly complacent. Quality is more important than quantity, yet a guarantee, unless protected by safeguards, is liable to encourage quantity at the expense of quality. To attack the problem of quality by a national scheme of farm instruction, that is, by co-operation with the farmer, should appeal to country and townsfolk alike as the course of wisdom.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 104, 4 May 1936, Page 6
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170GUARANTEES AND QUALITY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 104, 4 May 1936, Page 6
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