Production And Farmers
Sir, —It is surprising farmers have not had a go at Mr Taiboys. It seems he wants us to work harder, carry more sheep, with resultant increased taxation, set to targets compiled by professors, planners, and theorists, from the comfort of armchairs. Now if Mr Talboys thinks I am going to put longer hours in oilskin' and leggings with his proposed white-faced lambs, and lose more sweat crutching flystruck lambs, he’s got another think coming. Not one word of turning on a frosty blast of outside competition for agricultural implements and farm requisites, to bring their prices down to near parity with the rest of the world. New Zealand farmers “buy dearest, sell cheapest.” It all savours of stroking the neck feathers of the golden pastoral goose while squeezing it, and exhorting the poor gasping bird: “Lay you silly fowl. Lay!!”—Yours, etc., JOHN BARLEY CORN.
Waiau, January 5, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30641, 6 January 1965, Page 8
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152Production And Farmers Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30641, 6 January 1965, Page 8
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