SMALL FARM SCHEME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23281, 25 February 1939, Page 16

SMALL FARM SCHEME

Sir,—ln reply to "Agra," I will endeavour to state a few of the good things he has got, while he received that pittance, and he was everv one of thousands. He had a free hut and was allowed a cow for his use. Now he has taken over his holding. I surmise he is milking 30 cow?. From the average yeild from these cows the. Government take 40 per cent of the cheques, leaving him 60 per cent. On top of that he keeps the proceeds from the pigs he sells, he is allowed two breeding sows; which should yeild four littlers per year; his benzine and coal he gets from the factory at a reduced rate; his bobby calf cheques he also gets, for himself; • As to the cost price, well these schemes have been' costly and if you were asked to pay full price, which is cost price, you or anyone else would not be on a holding. I am quite sure small farms yeild a living, as the settlers own cars and wireless sets, etc. This .is rightly so. but such things cost money. Every man cannot be a farmer, we need all classes of labour in this world, and if we are to growl over not getting paid for giving our best, then we fail miserably, it makes me think of the slogan: "Let's build a nation." I would say: Let's build in the spirit of "our old colonists, let ug toil and build so that those that corne after us can reap the great benefits we have reaped from our parents, and so give— Satisfaction.