DAIRYMEN
LOW PRICES FOR 'BUTTER-FAT. AN UNENVIABLE POSITION. (Feom Odb Own Correspondent.) Wanganui, January 50. Dairymen have bean badly hit of late owing' to the .exceptionally low, price received for butter-fat, and a good many along the Coast are practically on the verge of 'bankruptcy. Even those who took up land at low prices before the war 'find it extremely difficult to live. One farmer in the Feilding district who bought .land 20 years ago at. a cheap price, said that rib ’ though he was working at a- advantage compared with many dairymen, ho was not making. a penny profit at tho p resent time. The price of butter-fat was as low as when he started dairying, and on the other hand everything required on the farm had more than doubled in price. A letter was received in Wanganui to-day from an Eltham dairy farmer who was also operating on land acquired at a reasonable price. He stated that he was milking 17 Jersey cows last year. His cheque received in January amounted to £BO from all sources on the farm, and this year for the corresponding period it was £lB.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18467, 31 January 1922, Page 8
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191DAIRYMEN Otago Daily Times, Issue 18467, 31 January 1922, Page 8
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