THE COST OF LIVING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15301, 15 November 1911, Page 4

THE COST OF LIVING.

Sis,—From the letters you h'aro publish ' one would naturally think that oil tho blame was <m tho poor formers' shoukkws (or tho high oost of Uioir living. It it a pity tho farmer does not rcoeivo the benefits' ts well as tho bkitno, then tho young farmer would get his compensations for his lornr' hours cif toil; there is no each tbia? U a bell to ring at 5 o'clock for him if- ho wifhos to mako ertds moel and paj his' rent or Interest at tho joarV end; nor ii ' there any wagd at tho weekend to pay" his pleasures for tho oooifaw week. ■ If h6 is'o dairy fanner ho inAy do paid at tho : month's «nd ; if not, ho war Wt h»s' n* : turns at tlx) year's end; tni if fo hits kent ■ his tow on Iho grimlstono, eo to' tpc'sk, and b«n lucky in his dealings, well, ho . tnay be ablo to p&r his way; but if bo'bcjt had contend with dry soasotw and therri has been no gram for his atoclr, eotallinij the'loss of cows, what is there before hirn, ■ through no fault ri hit owa, lut tho bank-ruptcy-court? ,Who, tlien, shoukt grades' him a'penny on his be«/, butter, oif milkf.' How much per woelc did our fathdre tUii grandfathers liro on &t Homo and contentedly brin? up largo families on? let your writers esk them their secret.—l am, ©to., . Old Wbitkb.