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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 579, 29 October 1920, Page 2

Nature is rich: those two egg-; jou ate for breakfast might, if hatched, have peopled the world with poultry. Says Ihe Phristchurch Sun; In 1915-1G the J;i-ad devoted to butterI'at production amounted to ovci' 3'j million acres. That. acreage reprcsen led over 'Jo,OOO holding's. Nearly if>,ono people worked those holdings, of whom over 15,000 were women. The average herd numbered 25 cows. Now —who is going to argue that thes# small producers, after yeais of struggle and drudgery culminating since the war in heavy additions to their overhead expense?, are not entitled to reap the fullest possible benefit from the fact that the Imperial Government is prepared to pay a record price for New Zealand butter ?