CARE OF THE FARMER.

Mt Benger Mail, 21 March 1934, Page 1

CARE OF THE FARMER.

EXAMBLES IN EFROBE. TIIK RASH nF BETTER London. March 12 Englishmen are so accustomed to Hearing about excessive Austenliar. ( anadian, and Argentine tariffs on manufactured goods that they do not realise the extent to which industrial countries in recent years have resorted to measures of agrarian protection that make the former seem moderate, says The Times, Pot instance, tile price of butler in December in London was bo/- compared wth 184/- in Berlin and Belgium and 238/- la Bans, Because European (loveriianeiits since the war have regarded the fanner essentially as the backbone of the nation and the defender against Communism, any measure has been considered justified il it keeps him happily on the land. The French and German farmers receive three times the price for butter that New* Zealanders obtain, and if the present conditions continue it is easy to visualise Australia, Canada, New Zealand ami Denmark abandoning farms. The Times says that remedies will only be effectively applicable when Britain and the dominions have a clearer idea of the objects of their economic policy. The dominions at Ottawa already recognised the necessity for exercising some discrimination in the encouragement of uneconomic industries, but that recognition still has to find sufficient expression in tariff schedules.