EXPORT OF CALVES.
INTERESTING TRIAL: ' Farmers '• district (talo- ; graphs'" our .correspondent) have: at times : given "some. thought^' to. :tho; freezing" and"'ex--7 porting-of'.their:veal-''calves"instead of disposing of them, to the' limited market-that offers locally. . Mr. Charles Cariy of, Feilding,' . . has gone into .-the/matter in a' practical • manner. .. Ho has made a trial . .with thirty-, ono veal calves off their mothers, and sent • them" Home through the; Longburn freezing >v. works. .Ho has just received the returns for the first seven . carcases. Here are the .'figures:-r • .. .. , .v»: ; .:.' : * -\-;'. ... Seven; calves,;, total price realised'ill 18 ,7 - Seven calves, total expenses , '5 3 9/ . ■ .■.. . Net-price realised £6 14-10 This-is equivalent to about; 19s. per head , . for - the vonturc,' and Mr. Carr is satisfied -that tho :19s. "return';is more easily earned . . and'a-better 'result . than :.the £1. per . head that' he . Would liavo received from local butchers. • .V " ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 157, 27 March 1908, Page 3
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140EXPORT OF CALVES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 157, 27 March 1908, Page 3
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