A FEW THINGS WHICH MAKE FARMERS CHEERFUL.
Selling four pound savoy cabbages at a penny each and watching them sold by weight at twopence a pound. Taking threepence a pound for apples and seeing them sold for ninepence. Getting less per gallon for milk than the distributer takes for making a noise like a cow. Getting a feeding place for their barley and delivering it to a brewery. • Buying their own pork from the outchers at 2/2 a pound and their own beef at 1/10. Realising £5 a ton for potatoes and gazing at the ticket in the shop window “i%d per lb.” Watching the desperate struggle the agricultural members of Parliament are putting up on Vtheir behalf! Reading “scientific” articles. Manuring their crops for a nomal season in an abnormal one. Selling sheep in autumn at the price paid for them in spring. Being told they don’t know their own business. Reading rigged reports of bumper wheat crops abroad. Hearing other’s news of 80-ton mangold cro^s.
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Northland Age, Volume 26, Issue 49, 27 April 1927, Page 11
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167A FEW THINGS WHICH MAKE FARMERS CHEERFUL. Northland Age, Volume 26, Issue 49, 27 April 1927, Page 11
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