WHERE FARMING PAYS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18420, 29 June 1925, Page 4

WHERE FARMING PAYS.

(from ora owx coeseseondest.) LONDON, May 22. Mr A. Croxtort Smith tells readers, of. the "East Anglican Times" that BrJtisJi money is flowing into New Zealand m exchange for her dairy produce, lamb and wool. Last year the Dominion received from, us in round fissures £lO,000,OCO for butter, £6,800,000 for cheese, and £10,100,000 for lamb and mutton. The process is not one-sided, as she buys from us in return manufactured goods to the value ot - _*.*»,- OuO.OOO, although, her population is not more than 1,300,000. "Agricultural experts," he says, "are fond of citing the exaniphvot Denmark, when commending the importance of co-operation. Pbr an excellent object lesson it is unnecessary to go outsido the Empire. Team work has been tho foundation of New Zealand's dairying prosperity, by means of which she is enabled to put some ot the finest butter in tho world upon the British market, selling i't at n. lower rate than the Continental. "Without cooperation such a result would have been unattainable. Of course, the climate is almost perfect for cattle, and diseases that are so common in Europe are practically unknown there. New Zealand's exoeriecjo is more useful to the farme'rs of the Mother Country, because she is essentially British in outlook. Perhaps her success may be ascribed to the fact that i production, manufacture* and marketing, though interlinked by combination*, are none the less regarded as separate concerns. Tho farmer caunot make butter equal to that turned out by scientifically-equipped creameries, nor can he sell as advantageously aa business men who know the trade. Too much stress cannot be laid upon the value of co-operation to the consumer. In New Zealand it lias ]cd to the introduction of a grading _syst«u. and the appointment of dairv instructors. 'One of the weaknesses cf agricultural co-operation in this country lias been the disloyalty of many members to their sc-eiety. New Zealand went through a similar experience when she had a multiplicity of small societies. If a member were dissatisfied or found himself pulled up for supplying inferior cream he went over to tho opposition show. {Small societies having been merged into a few big ones, the earlier abuses have disappeared. A fanner must either keep his cream up i to a high standard or lose his business."