THE BUTTER PRODUCER

Wairarapa Age, 6 April 1920, Page 7

THE BUTTER PRODUCER

Tho dairy fanner who supplies his milk to a butter-making factory has probably suffered more by tho war than any other producer, primary or secondary, of this country. In the making of cheese or dried milk, owing to isolation or poor reading facilities, while his more fortunato fellow dairy farmers have been able to enjoy good prices, he has had to share in the < increased cost of production without compensating increased returns, owing to the Government having fixed the local selling price of his product. And while he has to suffer loss, his city critics have had a free hand to charge what they liked, and in many cases exploit the public, :and him included. Many city trades have taken full advantage of increasing costs to doublo and treble their profits, but little or no criticism is levelled at them. The dairy farmer in tho aggregate, especially the back-block supplier to a butter factory, works harder and with less compensation than any man in the country, and to bo singled out for opprobrium is a painful irony which does little credit to his ill-informed critics and to the politicians responsible.—"Queeneland Producers' Review."