POINTS FOR FARMERS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20961, 15 September 1933, Page 14

POINTS FOR FARMERS

TO THE EDITOR OF TUB TRES3. 0 Sir, —I read with interest in your paper the article on the importation q of live stock contributed by the Can- q terbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, a on August 30. It seems to me that i: New Zealand farmers should make r some attempt before it is too late to c consider the opinions of their profes- i sional and scientific advisers both in t New Zealand and abroad, instead of continuing their present narrow- s minded and short-sighted policies. s As bearing on some of these policies, c . I should like to draw their attention ~ to the following: f (1) The Empire Marketing Board.— Does the New Zealand farmer realise the benefits he is going to lose when i the board is disbanded? Amongst I these are—(a) An advertising scheme ) unparalleled in any other in- 1 dustry. (b) A mass of technical know- < ledge which it would be impossible for any country to obtain individually. (<:) Perhaps most important of all a liaison between exporter and retailer. If all these advantages are lost surely there is a grave danger of losing trade • as well, and yet not a word" of protest [ is raised. , „ , . (2) The prooosed levy on wool ox 3d a bale.— Nobody can deny that the standard of wool classing is inneed ■ of drastic reform, nor that theie is much to be gained from wool research generally, yet the average South Island farmer is unwilling financially an undertaking which is sure to repay him many times. (3) The Embargo.—From ' eral attitude on this vexed question ft would seem that most farmers consider that they know more about tne spread of foot-and-mouth disease than do Australian, Canadian, and all the scientific experts who have gone so carefully into the matter. Some ers I am afraid, think that the stock if'Nevfzealand' does not require new blood, but such opinions hardlvneea consideration, A certain body of c/c»nf!pmen went so far as to say tna all this embargo c°iit r °versy El loum§§§ tion of sheep and "tile. m<l « Jgj same time make no protest seern ttare'lfflc to be iSS with In conclusion, may■ l sugg efrort the farmer should make jj e£ore Par . to support the bill coming the liament at the next sessi may improvement oflivesw do not be of interest ~t o, n t ^gS a ® r i that before flmost as ffiegSfe > After the* to'St that ' bulls. ®Xf pwernment had succeeded i reform.—Yours, etc., H.L. 1 September 14, 1933.