. Farmer and stockbreeder . ers who take an interest in the NationalFarmers Union is undoubted, and the time is athand when each branch will be asked to contri-bute its capitation fee. When the chairman ofeach branch asks for a proposer and seconderthat this be paid, let each member be dumb, orelse let the fees be paid on the stipulation thatthe ordinary members of the Union throughoutthe country have a voice in selecting the mem-bers of the Executive Committee, including thechairman and secretary.—I am, etc., T. Jesse Wadlow. — ? » M • A correspondent describing the stockbreedingyear in a rec
. Farmer and stockbreeder . ers who take an interest in the NationalFarmers Union is undoubted, and the time is athand when each branch will be asked to contri-bute its capitation fee. When the chairman ofeach branch asks for a proposer and seconderthat this be paid, let each member be dumb, orelse let the fees be paid on the stipulation thatthe ordinary members of the Union throughoutthe country have a voice in selecting the mem-bers of the Executive Committee, including thechairman and secretary.—I am, etc., T. Jesse Wadlow. — ? » M • A correspondent describing the stockbreedingyear in a recent issue mentioned es breeds whichhave shared in this advancing demand Large Blacks,Large Whites, and Gloster Old Spots. With these,of course, should have been bracketed Berkshires« Middle Whites, the Berkshire demand at theDalmeny sale being in the mature of a record, andthe Middles likewise experienced a very brisk tradewith high individual prices. These facts are broughtto our notice by a Yorkshire Photo by] [ Black Spanish Fowl. HALF-HOLIDAY PROBLEM PROTEST AGAINST SETTLEMENT BEFOREDEMOBILISATION The question of a half-holiday for farm servantsis likely to prove a thorny question in the Northof England writes a correspondent, and the decisionof the Agricultural Wages Board that it shall comeinto operation three months after the signing of theArmistice, February 11, without consulting thefarmers, has caused deep resentment, end it is feltthat the Board is being run to please Labour. Itseems extraordinary that this important mattershould have only been casually mentioned, toquote The Wages Board Gazette, at a recent meet-ing of the Wages Board, and the ultimatum sentforth without consulting important bodies. The members of the Malton Agricultural Associa-tion, at their meeting on Saturday, considered thesubject in all its bearings, and the general opinionwas expressed that until after demobilisation, at anyrate—which, according to one of the spe
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