ENGLISH FARMERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 27, 1 February 1940, Page 20

ENGLISH FARMERS.

MUST KILL COWS.

SHORTAGE OF FODDER. "CAN'T FEED CATTLE ON FORMS." ' / (Special:—By Air Mail.) 1 {"[;''• ;. LONDON, January 9. • English farmers, who are being asked to : grpi,v more food and to breed more cattle; are complaining that because of the shortage' of 'cattle fodder, wheat that should be used to make bread is being fed to cows, and cattle are being slaughtered because their ' owners cannot feed them. Farmers who used to sell surplus milk are now forced to buy milk because their cows, on iron rations, cannot produce enough. "All we get is marketing boards, red tape and forms. We can't feed our cattle on forms!" In these words a well-known Berkshire farmer summarised his colleagues' view of t.je shortage of cattle fodder. "Before the war I used to buy five hundredweight of meal a day. Now I can get nothing like that amount," said Mr. D. G. Rickards, of Windsor. "Half my order used to be for flake maize. Now I can.get none at all, or any maize byproducts. 1 understand that they are ".using'-the limited amount which readies this country for the manufacture of whisky.

"We can't get any dried bran, which is a purely British by-product, and instead we have to feed our cattle on linseed cake, which comes from Egypt and India."

"Farmers can't feed their cattle and the only thing for them is to send them to market. As a result there is overslaughtering," said another farmer.