A DAIRY FARMER’S DEFENCE.
[To The Editor Strateord Post.]
Sir—Will you kindly permit me to say a few words in reply to Mr G. N. Curtis’ strictures on the dairy farmers of this district in respect to the Belgian Relief Fund contributions. So far the dairy farmer has not received one copper extra on account of the high prices Mr Curtis speaks of, but, on the contrary, he has been to a great deal of extra expense for seed and manure and the proverbial one-hundred.aud-one other necessaries. On the other hand the output per cow is this season nearly one-third less than in normal years: at any rate that is the case with my cows. I do not think the war is the cause of the lesser output, nor yet a reason for the small prices being paid to the dairy farmers for their calves, but probably the abnormal season has something to do with it. Mr G. N. Curtis may be able to afford to be very philanthropic, but to infer that the dairy farmers’ contributions are only one-half per cent, towards the Patriotic Fund is not quite fair: 1 There is another Pharisee in the field who has' been writing in the same strain and should know better. I am, etc.
JOSEPH THOMAS, Ngaere, 9th March, 1915.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 10 March 1915, Page 6
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219A DAIRY FARMER’S DEFENCE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 10 March 1915, Page 6
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