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MEETING BRITAIN'S NEED. APPEAL TO DOMINION FARMERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, This Day. An appeal to the patriotism of the farmers of the Dominion was made by Mi' R. B. Tenncnt. Director of the National Council of Production, nt a meeting in Dannevirke yesterday, to grow more hay, ensilage and turnips in order to reverse the tendency for dairy cow numbers to decline, and to produce more butterfat as their essential war effort. This, he said, could be done most rapidly by improving the supplcmen-l tary teed provision and after that by i better general management and by in-1 creasing the size of herds, in the first! instance by culling fewer cows and after that by saving more calves. Prior 1o making the appeal. Mr Tenncnt had pointed out that, owing to Britain's foreign sources of imported butter being either completely cut off or threatened. New Zealand farmers had an opportunity such as they had never had before of showing practical patriotism by producing every possible ounce of butterfat, in the knowledge that civilians in Britain.and our armies overseas could absorb more than was available for them. In 1938 New Zealand supplied just, over half the butter used by Britain that came from the Empire. Sources of foreign supplies, now cut off or threatened, amounted to 98 per cent of such supplies, being 'l4 per cent of the total consumption in the United Kingdom. There is little doubt that the primary resources of the Empire will be strained to the uttermost to meet the position in Britain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1940, Page 8
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