SUGGESTIONS TO CATTLE PRODUCERS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 202, 17 March 1877, Page 2

SUGGESTIONS TO CATTLE PRODUCERS.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE PATEA MAIL), Sir—Will you through your valuable paper direct the attention of our bucolic friends that may attend the gathering that is to rake place next week at Kakaramea, to the consideration

of a subject- of mo-t vital in'erod to them, and to all other inhabitant of the I’a.tca (.'ounty, namely, the pie-enl value- of iut cattle. When the present retail pricet of beef. at onr chief cent re of popn’abon in the South part of this North Diund (Wellington) comes up to C2 and ,C2 l()s. and oven higher jicr UK) lbs.. flow comes it that cattle dealers and butchers From that, part arc at present scarcely giving Cl per 100 lb< for cattle thatthey now purchase it 1 , this district from our farmers? Simply from a spiritless indifference and neglect on the part oft lie farmers themselves in not Irvin;' unitedly to rectify such a state of matters. Why should dealers and butchers be -allowed to make .CIOO to the dSO per cent, profit, as they are now- doing, on a ] trod act which the farmers have to wait for and tend with anxiety, and undergo hardships for 55 or -1 years before it becomes marketable ? Let the Patea Agric-ultural and Pastoral Association take the matter up, and make an effort to got- farmers to act and pull cordially together, in this and other affairs of combined interest . Local new-mapors should publish wholesale and retail prices of Wellington and other chief centres of population —and to otherwise use their vast iniluence in persuading fanners to combine, in on lor to do justice to themselves, and thereby benefit the district by retaining within it adequate remuneration for its produce.-—I am. kr... A. B.