FREEZING LAMBS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2954, 20 June 1891, Page 2

FREEZING LAMBS.

ro mi: kiju'oii. "'•Ill, —111 coin'i' i'j:i o;' i;it< ■ with two w, i'.-kimwn fin' hern t.iiri-p tlvalcrx. who i-y ii).» l»y« wen i'H'l' iil'i 1 u> tliink highly (if our jmM.ii-.-i-i la tlio matter of slieup : aisin:ii"V :inp!--«M."l <m :i i; tin: important i-.:-- i-.-'ii ti:c raisin;* of l.nnbs ! i ;r i : i ii-.J on !:)■• sheep farming y I?. -ouh ; .t-ni 1 hey stated ' '.'i- i.y _i 1 IJH', l.;r : 'c numbers of j--:p 1 ■ neie t J !Mrd •.ill' ill tl.i'i W.iV. Am i' '!. > j !i of ilit- i".iiiutry, in Ili»' la - ' f th" lycai .strides maJu iu sheep ii: i.edi ■' in this district, is likely t i b e.e:r- a i.-,i<iinle.iture in our opera- : u I would i:l:e to point out Iho iJi'i'.'ii (1 i-sadvantages we at prrxutit labour uin!..:' with n-uurtl to rail charges on sheen or lambs to Auckland, it has I almost been bid down as a fact that lain!'-, cannot ho driven any threat distant-.: to nn: rket, Ihe fanner lias not the option of fau-mli ii ti by road—thus the rail - way has the monopoly of the lamb carrying tiado.— To illustrate what I alhule to sa execs.-.! ve freight on lambs : ■ —I .-ent down a truck last; week which realised from l.'is lid to Ms each. The ordinary fees amounted to u little uudt r -1 per cent, and the railage to a little over 10 per ceut. Now, sheep have been delivered to iiiu here lioin liawkes Hay at 'Jd per head, and to convey tin m by rail a distance ol some 71) miles, the ratiwy charge.-, are very nearly double What would bo the result of sending ordinary iambs to Auckland, valued .-it, say, seven or eight shillings, il :.-ieii nv amount is to be absorbed in . It' «hi i p-i curing is to succeed hi re, i lie [:ir.;,x".'o inu.it adopt the mean.employe i by those who have in other i phcc.i i:::r'.e -,t a success ; and one, if not I ihc l iii-. i li-aturc in their operations, is I liic laising of lal lambs lor tive.:ing purj poses. It, however, Waikalo is to be handicapped by such charges as 1 havt alluded to, then 1 am afraid the day )V still tar oil when .-ueecss lfi likely to a! tend her cllorts ill tins pan ieulai ami. all-important branch ol sheep-raising. This, 1 tliinl:, i.-i a mutter which is within the province ol our 1 armers' Club to at- | tempt, to remedy, and we and all interested shuuld strive, as I lie Americaus apparently have done with i;reat success, to obtain from the Railway Department largo coiKVisi'cis in freight charges ou our stock going to market, — ! inn. Arc., E. B. Cox. 'Jatipiri, June J7lii. 1 i>f) 1.