A SOUTHERN VIEW.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 January 1913, Page 4

A SOUTHERN VIEW.

The Christ-church Press, in a-fi article dealing -with the slaughtermen's case, in which it ridicules tho idea of farmers providing men for carrying on tho slaughtering, says: "It is true there is plenty of feed, but* there is no profit in keeping animals on the farm .when they are fat and tho market is waiting for them. The lambs, of course, will continue to put on weight, but if the ■works are closed ■for any length of. time there will be such a rush of stock into the yards that farmers cannot expect to receive the same prices as if they had fed the market steadily. The loss is not to be entirely reckoned up, however, by tho mere holding of fat stock, but. through the consumption of feed that would otherwise go towards tho fattening of further drafts. Tho-se who have been buying store lambs and wethers for finishing off are bound to suffer. Tho rates ruling for store fUieep lately have, been very high, and have left but little margin between store and fat value, and any interference with the fat stock market, will mean a loss instead of a, profit."