CALF VALUES
(To the Editor.) Sir — Notwithstanding a very great decrease in the number of calves reared in Tnrnnnki this season there is a widespread feeling (lint unless there is n big rise in prices, which is considered unlikely, in view of the slump in young cattle, settlers will not trouble about calves next season, especially where tho share niilk : ing system exists. With milk at Sd. to 9jd. a gallon it requires 20s. to 30s, to start a calf, then thero is meal for four month?, so that unless one gets n minimum prico of M for a live months' weaner, selling his skin is a tetter investment. In January,'l9l7, I got 91s. (Id. and 83s. for my first drafts of wenner steers; last year, on February 2, I got 795. and 835.; and (his year (February 1) 1 sold at 68s. and 635), which leaves mo about 325. (id. for owner's share,(gross), (he net amount after'milk, meal, and five months grass are deducted, would not provide the proverbial whisky money.—l am, etc.. . ' W. H. WRIGHT. Haliotu, .Taranaki,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 112, 5 February 1919, Page 8
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179CALF VALUES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 112, 5 February 1919, Page 8
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