THE PRICE OF BUTTER.
Writing on the above subject, the Opunake Times (Taranaki) says : “A great [deal is written, and telegraphed reports are daily appearing in the big* provincial papers about the butter market and the famine prices, as if the product were as hard to obtain as gold. Farmers obtain very little of this “enhanced value,” their share (on the average) does not get beyond the io}(d for the season. The “ unearned increment ” in this Hue does not go to the farmers —but to the boomers. If the farmer wants to control his product from the milky way to the golden markets he must blow his own horn and wet his own whistle. However, the boom is not going to last long —not by any means the length the retailers anticipate. In three weeks time the demand set up by local consumers will be satisfied as there are sufficient “ early cows ” to satisfy the demand. In a very few weeks’ time the clanging of the buckets and the rattle of the milk carts will have its effect on markets beyond our shores.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 425, 18 August 1908, Page 2
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183THE PRICE OF BUTTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 425, 18 August 1908, Page 2
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