KILLING THE CALVES.
WHAT OF THE FUTURE? A gentleman intimately connected with the dairy industry (says an exchange-) states that withiu a moderate radius of Auckland over 400 calves are being killed weekly at the present time. The high price of gutter has a good deal to do with this “slaughter of the innocents.” No milk is likely to be spared to feed cplves when 2s (id per pound can be got for butter. The outlook for the future is, however, a serious one. If no calves are reared dairy cattle will be at prohibitive prices in a few years’ time, while beef must become about as expensive an article of diet as butter is at the-pre-sent time. The man in the backblocks who cannot get milk, to a factory should, however, gain in the future if he rears the calves.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 3 November 1920, Page 4
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141KILLING THE CALVES. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 3 November 1920, Page 4
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