RETURNS FROM LAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20724, 18 November 1930, Page 12

RETURNS FROM LAND.

.Sir, —Tt is highly amusing to read some of the letters in your columns re the price of butter in New Zealand. For instance, one who signs himself "One of the Imbeciles" quotes the cost of production on land valued at £SO per acre. Ho goes on to tell us that ho is spending at the rate of £1 per acre in manure. Now, if that land did cost £SO per acre, and then needs £1 per acre to keep it in fit condition to carry 25 head of stock, well, all I can say is, let "One of the Imbeciles" get out before he loses all his reason. Any man wjio pays £SO per acre for land that won't carry a cow per acre never will make a success of farming. Also, your correspondent says nothing at all about pigs, or heifer calves out of the 3001b. cows. Say, for argument, he gets 12 heifer calves, worth about £4 apiece at six months old, and 25 pigs netting another £SO. Also, he might try an acre or two of soft turnips for autumn feeding. Then he can put two acres of barley in for winter and spring feed. Sow about the middle of March and it will throw enough feed through the winter and spring to carry an extra ten cows. With good management he could milk those extra cows and increase his income by £l5O, with butter-fat at Is 2d per lb. Common Sense.