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AUCTIONS. 11. AIATSON AND CO <IOOT ANIi MOUTH DISEASE. iiFiZl V,"K AllK AGAIN. had another pe>i ia this country. Undoubtedly the difficulty thut wo are having with lambs and ohvtp ro l;itrcii worms, etc., found its v. ay »» •;* through Australian ports. the expressions cf British inU;reMa that »vo in New Zealand mubt have their ftock. wu lri:irely disagree. For years v© ha\o Luen aIW-3 to breed our ov.n stock, And it 1* only the lazy or the breeder who is largely .» dealing breeder, who would advocate the importation of stock to maintain hi* fljc>: aticl herds, .to save him doing as he should do—build it up himself. One has only to turn to Australia to see what they did with tho merino sheep. It was not importation, it wiis their own natural knowlodge as flock masters. The same thing applies here as regards the wonderful standard upon which the Corriedalo sheep has been j>roduced, and if wo can do that wtih those breeds, which wo can, why the neces* sit* 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 Stock Journal from a youcg Britisher who served some years in South America, and he refers to the New Zealand eheep as being of such a high standard in the Argentine that our sheep are becoming far more sought after than the British sheep. This man wua actually u judge at the big kcows at Palermo and other places in tho Argentine, and he is also recognised as a capable judge in Great Britain, therefore we nay to our stud bredeers here—do not heed the interests that are endeavouring to break down our barriers and open our ports for the importation of sheep, merely to find an outlet for those dealing breeders in the Old World whose stock are not attractive enough to find an outlet, hence the desire to exploit New Zealand. LATEST INFORMATION —Notwithstanding the assurances of our worthy British friends, the Live Stock Journal of September EGth advises a second outbreak of foot and month disease occurred in Yorkshire last week r>n a farm. You will notice this is the second outbreak. They are now endeavouring to make a chango of policy to try and .keep the disease in check, but the fact remains that notwithstanding all assurances that t7O have from these different places at Home, they have left no stone unturned to paint the picture up to the very best that they can possibly do. Two outbreaks have now taken place quite recently, the latest being this one in Yorkshire. They are now resorting to burning the hay and fodder, and destroying everything that was likely to be ; n contact with the animals or the locality, the boiling and sterilising of meat and paper wrappers, the destruction of hay and straw, the prohibition of importation of trees, shrubs, plants, bulbs, etc. We note that importations have been made of horses which in our opinion is entirely wrong, and the barriers as regards regulations should be considerably tightened up »o that diseases cannot find their way cither from Australia or Oreat Britain to the pas* tares of New Zealand, and not only the foot* and mouth disease, but other diseases that apparently they are incapable of stihnping out in England, such as scab, etc T7q know the difficulties we had locally with it in the early days. Great Britain at the present time is leaving no stone unturned to exploit our market. A.t the present time we have ambassadors of one soTt and another endeavouring to lull the fear and the risk that we have in respect to these matters. Thank goodresß the greater portion of our flock masters are steady men who can .produce stocl? that is able to find a market and compete with any other country, and are not prepared to accept nny risk that will prejudice the assets of this country. H. MATSON and CO.

H. MATSON and CO'S ANNUAL 817 L.L SAZ.E at Tatteraall's win take place on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER' 15th the cud of Show Week. We look forward to the support of vendors and dairymen and herd-masters throughout the country making pur* chases as heretofore. Vendors, send us particulars of you? entries at the earliest possible date. H. MATSON and CO. DEFICIENCY DISEASES. * 'Breeding and young stock make heavy demands on *he land for the minerals used in the formation of bono, etc. A 10001b bullock requires is addition to other minerals, the equivalent of 1331b of 'superphosphate and 2611b of lime, a brood sow will lose l§os of minerals Der day in her milk. Nearly all our soils are ueficient in phosphates and lime. Fodder frown on such soils must also be short of these elements, and the shortage is passed on to the stock. Coasty cattle, the twin disease 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 the lower is the carrying capacity, the slower the growth of young stock, and the higher the iucidence of disease. Top-dressing will do a lot to remedy the position. The application of super has been found to increase the phosphate content of the herbage 2) times, and the lime content threefold. On jsoor pastures and broad acreß it is often Impracticable to top-dress, and the use of licks has to be considered. (H. MATSON and CO. SUPPLY MOOKI- - LIXIT MINERAL BLOCKS.) All herd masters and dairymen should order LIXIT, as once used they will never be without it. Obtain from K. MATSON and CO. or from your own Agent B IG BUSINESS NEEDS BIG MEN. The well-known American banker, Mr Otto Kahn, is one for whose judgment in many thing*, including business mutters, men both in the Old World and the New have come to have an extreme respect. Every now and •gain he puts the world in his debt by a letter on Borne financial, commercial, or industrial point of immediate public interest. Tbe most recent of these letters has just been printed and circulated by "the Comznittoa of American Bus,nes3 Alen." it deals with "Some Aspects of the Depression," and there ia not one of its twenty little pages out contains observations which are of exceptional importance. One which most held our attention was about the urgent need for tho higher standard of leadership and management made necessary by the great size and scale of modern business. "We had gone ahead," he says, "blithely creating aggregations of capital, some of them of huge proportions, without sufficiently bearing in dind 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 is exceedingly limited." And here Mr Kahn touches one of the root causes of the present troubles in world industry. It has been too hastily assumed that size is an end in itself. It has been seen that tho big business is more powerful than the one, and it has been assumed that the atrengtn is all in the size, whereas it is really in tho skill with which the Bize is managed and led. Size in business is a atrength when it is the expression of a ttronc creative force, when it is the inevitable result of growth brought about by exeeptioiiul 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 result of a policy based not on experience aud knowiedgo but on catchwords. Size In business which is duo simply to to°m C fnr e °h f ,T aa or i, a croup of men to go in for what they called "rationalisation" is not a strength but a weakness, noi a safety but a danger. The wreck of a 50.U00* ton steamer is more easily brought about and more appallingly disastrous than tho wreck of a rowing boat. rA ,Th ??v Can be little doubt," says Mr under existing world conditions there is special call and need for construeand inSess' P £ and finance a Sf'M V. the opinion to day is the «nhm„" k UB ' Cff ° n - Note 11,0 P° wer of shins b ° at aeoinst ,ar e° btittler«aS» in*?.*? surplus of money, the all 100 abL S" 11° " e '"° scorns or who dSmtf ... ® WUh the ono dosi " Of divinot «n Ti 1 ! be a liability to-day and d?r,," Individual effort, personal and diret. management, backed up oy many vcarn V" BBBet w?hic >> the farnier mVson Ta co tu "' inß by s ' :lipo " l "8 Ha7m H. iIATSON and CO.