CORRESPONDENCE.
THE CALF SEASON. (To the- Editor). Sir, —The calf season, is only .a few months ahead, and it behoves the dairy farmer to put his thinking cap on. The outlook for the price of skins for the new season is bad. Speculators for the season just passed liave been hit hard. Tlie Continental markets are dead, as fickle fashion has turned her head on. the hitherto marketable makes of calfskins. Would it not pay } the dairy farmers to get in touch with the Government to lift the ban on calf exportation. and send the carcases to oversea. markets? If only males, were allowed to be (slaughtered, 1 am sure .it could bo arraugfed. Thousands of Jersey hull calves could he exported with the skins on. like the vealers used to be. Times are tight financially, and likely to he tighter, so every little by-product of dairying shouhl he made the most of. Trusting these few remarks will catch the notice, of the Patea and Waitarn freezing authorities. —I am, etc., INTERESTED. Nor man by.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 April 1926, Page 5
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