SWING BACK
TARANAKI FARMERS
SHEEP TO COWS
v (By Telegraph.) (Special to the 'Evening Post."}
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
There is every probability that' in the coming season there will be a definite s#ing back from sheep farming to dairying in Taranaki. The trend during the past two or three years has been . the other way.
A tour of Taranaki reveals the inroads that sheep have made : into a district formerly regarded as essentially dairying. Labour difficulties, not so much the increased wages which farmers generally are prepared to meet but the -impossibility in manyx cases of ' securing reliable labour- either on wages or on the share ■ system^ have caused some farmers to change from dairying to sheep farming, and have caused others to reduce their herds to such size as the available labour could handle without difficulty, and to replace displaced cows: with ■ ewes. Experienced farmers and men who keep in close touch with the stock market position predict that next season there will be a definite change.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 3
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169SWING BACK Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 3
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