AN EYE-OPENER FOR FARMERS.
The'following letter appeared recently in the Dunedin Star .
Sir, —You will see by the following extract that the Southland farmers are about to set a good example to the other pro vioces of New Zealand:—“ Some of the farmers in this district (says tbe Ijipton correspondent of the ‘ Southland Times ’) are proposing to inaugurate a Farmer’s Association, The scheme is yet in embryo, but will probably see the light before next year. Roughly, the objects of the proposed association are to import their own cornsacks, insure their own stacks, build large store at the Bluff, and ship their own produce ; and thus to do away with the commission agent. Poor ‘cocky’ finds it tight enough to support his own family in these tight times, and cannot at all see the fun of any longer supporting the family of the farmer’s parasite—the commission agent. As one of the legion of the robbed remarked the other day, When I go to town I see Mr X. with a gold ch dn and all his clerks with gold chains ; a nd when I think who pays for all these gold chains , I find that it is I and others like me, and I'll be hanged if I do so, any longer. The matter is now in the hands of a few, and more will doubtless be heard of it before long. It is s project web deserving the consideration of a,ll in agriculture.”
I hope the farmers of Otago will follow suit, and go apd <f° lik oW iso< I would
suggest to the Otago farmers when they pay u visit to Lfanedin to walk roon 1 our suburbs and take stock of tl>e beautiful bouies belonging to commission agents. I should like them to compare these mansions with their own humble farmsteads. Let hern also remember that there are commission agents in other countries who possess fine mansions, and who also take a share of the farmer’s hard earnings. We want to see our farmers reap the benefit of their labors, as we know that their prosper, ly means the welfare of the land of our adoption.—l am, &o , Young Briton.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 291, 16 September 1880, Page 2
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363AN EYE-OPENER FOR FARMERS. Temuka Leader, Issue 291, 16 September 1880, Page 2
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