THE SALE OF CALVES.
THE PRICES TOO LOW. A SHORTAGE’ PREDICTED. The present small demand for better calves is causing several of the farmers round Mprrinsville to wish they had not taken the trouble of rearing their calves. At the last Morrin,sville stock sale one pen was knocked down at 8s a head, while a better lot sold at only 12s. This caused the owner of one of the lots to remark that he predicted a shortage of calves next season if there were no prospects of better prices being realised. He estimated that it took 15s or £1 worth of fresh milk to feed a calf during the first two weeks, and to pay the farmer for the cost and trouble of rearing the animals would need to be sold at at least 3OS each. If they could not get that price it would be better to “knock, them on the head’’ and sell the skins, which were worth about 6s each. That is what had happened to the steer calves, with the result that there was now a shortage.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4678, 24 March 1924, Page 2
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181THE SALE OF CALVES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4678, 24 March 1924, Page 2
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