One old farmer, a wealthy man two years ago (states the Melbourne Age), said that by hawking 25 dozen eggs and 251b“0f butter around the town each week he could make £2 10s a week, and he cheerfully remarked that he would rather be on his farm at £2 10s per week than in the town -at £5 ss. “ I’ll never take a coupon ” were his words. The increasing number of farmers who are selling produce has brought eggs down to as low as 3d a dozen, and dairy butter of a quality never before known in the district to Is per lb.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 46
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