FARM-MADE BUTTER
Sir,—Tn Titk Dominion of to-day 1* mention of Hie Farmers' Union talcing store: iti the matter of subsidising farmers' butter." Unless die'union hustles.' the season will lrt> over More ilie'Government takes action. As the Treasury r» Riivfiij? sixpence on every nound of farmers' butter sold to the. stores, it would be bad bysiness for th'o Government. to push matters. I do not see that there should bo.any trouble over the purchase of fanners' butter. The price at, the stores could lie fixed—the stores .sell to the merchants, and then the Government has only the merchants io deal with in the matter of subsidy. There tfill be 110 trouble alxrat the stores talcincr the butter, for with the butter (roes live farmers' cus.tom. —I am, etc., THOS. PTUGBY. ' Wlmrenma, December !), 1020. [The Prime 'Minister stated 011 Saturday thai the extension of the equalisation scheme to farm-tnadv butter was considered to bo impracticable. The Government could not check qunlity or quantity when the butter was sold by the farmers direct to the stores. Mr. Massev added that farmers who sold their butter for export in tho milled form could receive its value on the export basis.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 68, 14 December 1920, Page 7
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196FARM-MADE BUTTER Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 68, 14 December 1920, Page 7
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