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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 12 November 1930, Page 20

AUCTIONS. H. MATBOW AND GO. •gIG BUSINESS NEEDS BIG MEN. The well-known American banker, Mr Otto Vithn, it one for whose judgment in many things, including business matters, men both in the Old World and the New have come to have an extreme respect. Uvory now and again he puts the world in his debt by a letter on some financial, commercial, or industrial point of immediate public iuterest. The most recent of these letters has just been printed and circulated by "the Committee of American Business Men." It deals vith "Some Aspects of the Depression," and there is not one of its twenty little pages but contains observations which are of exceptional importance. One which most held our attention was about the urgent need, for the higher standard of leadership and management made necessary by tho great size and scale of modern business. "We hod gone ahead," ho says, "blithely creating aggregations of capital, some of them of huge proportions, without sufficiently bearing iri mind that the right handling of such aggregations requires, at the helm, men of exceptional ability and character, and that the supply of men thus qualified it> exceedingly limited." And here Mr Kahn touches one of the root causes of the present troubles in world industry. It has boen too hastily assumed that fiizo is an end in itself. It has been seen that the big business is more powerful than the small one, and it has been assumed that the strength is all in tho size, whereas it is really in the skill with which the size is managed and led. Size in business is a strength when it is tho expression of n strong creativo force, when it is the inevitable result of growth brought about by exceptional powers of leadership. It is not a strength when it is brought about by simple imitation, by a desire to be in the fashion, or when it is tho retult of a policy based not on experience and knowledge but on catch* "words. Size in business which is due simply to »he desire ol a man or a group of men to go in for what they called ''rationalisation" is not a Btrength but a weakness, not a safety but a danger. Tho wreck of a 50,000ton. steamer is more easily brought about and more appallingly disastrous than the wreck of a rowing boat. "There can be little doubt," says Mr Kahn, "that under existing world conditions there is special call and need for constructive statesmanship in economics and finance and in business itself." Personally we are of tho opinion to-day is a day of individual effort. Note the power of the submarine boat as against large battleships. The over surplus of money, the all too ready investors who create concerns or who enlarge them with tile one desire of dividends appears to be a liability to-day and not an asset. Individual effort, personal and direct management, backed up by many years of experience, is an asset which tho farmer can rely upon obtaining bv supporting 11. HATSON and CO. H. MATSON spd CO'S ANNUAL, BULL SALE at Tattersall's win take place on SATURDAY, NOVEHBEIi 15tli the end of Show Week. Wc look forward to the support of vendors and dairymen and herd-masters throughout thß country making purchases as heretofore. Vendors, seed us particulars of your entries at the earliest possible date. H. MATGON and CO. TACKLING DEFICIENCY DISEASES. "Breeding and young stock make heavy demands .on the land for the minerals used in the formation, of bone, etc. A 10001b bullock requires in addition to other minerals, tho equivalent of 1331b of superphosphate and 26£lb of lime, a brood sow will lose ljos of minerals per day in her milk, Nearly all our soils are deficient in phosphates and Hjne. Fodder grown on such soils must also Wshoit of these elements, and the shortage is passed on to the stock. Coasty cattle, the twin ili3£S«" of sheep (fatty infiltration of the liver) \and stunted and generally unthrifty stock result when these minerals are not obtainable. Speaking broadly, the lower the pastures are In mineral content tho lower is the carrying capacity, the slower the growth of young stock, and the higher th* incidence of disease. Top-dressing will do a lot to rcmcdy th.e position.- The application of super has teen found to increase the phosphate content of the herbage 2 J times, and the lime content threefold. On poor pastures and broad acres it is often impracticable to top-dress, and tho use of licks has to be considered. (H. MATSON and CO. SUPPLY MOOKI--BPRINGB LIXIT MINERAL BLOCKS.) THE DANGER OF SPECULATING "WITH THE MARKETS WHEN YOU HAVE A. COMMODITY TO SELL. One of the biggest curses during recent years in respect to the man on the land, which .has been resultant from tho war, has been the speculative attitude adopted by many men on the land, namely, speculation with the realisation of their products. A man will hang; ob to bis lambs, in mmy cases, considerably over the period that '.hey should be allowed to depasture on his property, thereby exhausting the pasture, and in many instances leaving his lambs with the ewes, in the hopes of getting away a proportion of milk lambs, to the last moment, and again putting double tax on the pasturing qualities of the land, and leaving the ewe very little time to recover and to maintain the virility that is necessary, a* Nature provides, before she is mated for the coining season. This has been responsible for many localities losing their marketable value, "for the lambs in certain areas, exhausting the pastures, and depreciating the "vlaility of tho land. This is much more eviOn bill landq, which rarely again recover their pasture virility. Yon will find farmers hanging on to big extra heavy fat sheep, speculating ouj tho market, in the hopes of just striking a Jueky-., day, that just, gets them out. This last eoason has been an object-lesson to many sellers in the market that must bring home to_ them the stupidity of the same. It applies to, all sections of farmers and land owners, with their produce. They will hang on to their wheat, and will not sell it. thinking they can perhaps get id or ljd a lb more. .Che potato-growers have endeavoured to sell ' their potatoes to the best advantage, and what with losses as regards picking over, damaged potatoes, rot, frost, etc., even although growers have spread their sales more or less this last year, they havo all been caught, whereas If they carried out a solid method of celling, when their goods were ordered, and the buyers were buyers, these particular losses would have been considerably minimised. Without wishing to preach to I the farmer, we feel perfectly safe in saying to them that we are now in a period when the speculative _ element will have to give way to the reliable and solid old customs. The booster and the optimistic, for the time Jeing, will be temporarily laid in their graves, whatever commodity you have got to-day, whether it la sheep, lambs, pigß, produce, etc., when you are ready to market—draft and sell, thresh and sell, etc. The world's markets require the moneys, and while the moneys are still in the world, unfortunately the current is not flowing too freely throughout the arteries of the Southern Hemisphere. Good farming, solid marketing where you will get your cash, will all have to replace the speculative and risky methods that have been in evidence throughout the trading seasons of recent years. 11. MATSON and 00. lAll herd masters .and dairymen should order LIXIT, as once used lk *. never bfe without it, .11. MATSON and CO. | . frosa your own Agent TOO'. \ND MOUTH DISEASE. E WE ARE AGAIN, tit of our British farmers to timorous publications appeared .tit t'.'.i; y- srß in respect to assuring v it foot and mouth disease had >cl in England, and that the only ■ib. cotacn'j: ity there was about was New ii. ecting herself by keeping up o N„rrb » aid preventing the importing - r stock that was likely to bte rs?r 'he disease and endanger, the if rh > uuntry. Needless to say most k jtstJ... itlous emanated not from tne eeder, who cap always find a market -is own stock in his own country, but . <>D the speculative dealer and the dealer who poses as a breeder. However, New Zealand was not prepared to take the risk. In facta our in respect to protecting our country are not half stringent enough. Other diseases are finding their way into New Zealand from other sources than England, including Australia. We have heard it reported and believe it is a fact, that stock have got in here with wobble fly, and if it had not boen for the' extra care and the fact that the stock got into the hands of men who understand the risk of it, we would have had-another pest in this country. Undoubtedly 1 * the difficulty that we are having with lambs and sheep regarding worms, etc., found its way to us through Australian ports. Regarding the expressions of British interest* that ive in New Zealand must have their stock, we entirely disagree. For years have been able to breed our own stock, and it is only the "lazy or tho breeder who is largely a dealing breeder, who would advocate the importation of stock to maintain his flock and herds, to save him doing aa he should do—build it up himself. One has only to turn to Australia to see what they did with the merino sheep. It was not importation,: it was their own natural know- I ledge as flock masters. The same thing applies here as regards the wonderful standard upon which tho Corrledale sheep has been, produced, and if we can do that wtih those breeds, which we can, why the necessity to Import stock that in all probability is going to bring diseases into this country that runs the risk of jeopardising the assets of every flock master in the country. Recently an article has been published in the British Live Stork Journal from a young Britisher who served some years in South America, and hj» refers to the Now Zealand