The Farmstead.

Southern Cross, Volume 9, Issue 5, 4 May 1901, Page 6

The Farmstead.

At the last meeting o£ the Gippsland Rabbit Suppression League, a letter wafe received from the Orbost council refusing to contribute to the league’s funds while the Government failed to keep large local areas of Crown lands clear, it being useless for the shire to attempt to combat the pest. * * It is found that out of the 17,000 farmers in Kansas, in the United States, 5000 are women, and it is with them as with the men, some of them work almost daily in the field, and others depend more upon hired helpers whom they oversee and direct. * Invercargill ham and bacon dealers declare that the decision of the borough council that alll pork must be killed and stamped at the abattoirs will ruin the trade, and they have appointed a deputation to wait on the council. * * * Speaking at a meeting at which a farmers’ club was formed at Waimate, Mr Douglas said that at present they were being legislated for without their consent, and to their detriment. The workers in the towns were legislating for them wholesale, and measures were being drawn up by workers’ unions and sent to the Legislature without half enough consideration, The farmers of New Zealand, if united, could have the same say, if not one of greater weight than the town workers.