TOO MUCH BUTTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 10

TOO MUCH BUTTER.

Cable news from Canada say 3 the dairy farmer ie facing min through a anrplm of 26,000.0001b of butter. Strange, in a country l-ke Canada with no Labour Government, no import restrictions, no extravagant public 'ven 1 £T" dit " ro > "« lavage, no Xash, not hlVl a **«npte to wind the economic clock that dairy farmers should have troubles the same a* they do in Xew Zealand. »O seriouslie the position that the Government i* appo.nt.ng twelve men to secure market,, not m Canada— oh. dear no!—hut over the border and f ar away The farmer fo hp penalised for producing too much butter. Economists (the dear old la.lio-=) toil u< it 'V r. matter of .upplv and demand. There Lay he many butteries tummies in Canada, but that does not constitute demand. •Ipiimikl Mi.' nf the purse and not of the stomnch. To cre ; :i demand the farmer tries to improve liio ntiality. Can it be that his UlcJ are „:.!- fash.onedv l, he pol , M protlm . e luut(J ,. pycvv pound of which was guaranteed to poison one hundred thousand cul.i,. feet of the there would be an unlimited demand for it. and at remunerative prices, too. His trouble would be ende<l until a pound of his own butter was dropped in his baekvard froj.i an enemy aeroplane—then exit farmer, cow. orak -Hisation. a R Mt-DOXALD.