. Farmer and stockbreeder . p. No turnips ormangels except very few patches. Spring corn,especially oats on sandy land, look very is also looking bad. Barley stands itthe best, and that is losing colour. If rain comenow it is too late for the hay crop. In myopinion, bay will be X10 to JCV2 per ton nextwinter. Many farmers will not have plenty fortheir own stock. I see any amount of acres thathave not more than half a ton per acre, xuemilk producer is having a bad time. I thinkif the Milk Controller had a dairy farm now hewould soon know what it was to be there,with no grass, cows mak
. Farmer and stockbreeder . p. No turnips ormangels except very few patches. Spring corn,especially oats on sandy land, look very is also looking bad. Barley stands itthe best, and that is losing colour. If rain comenow it is too late for the hay crop. In myopinion, bay will be X10 to JCV2 per ton nextwinter. Many farmers will not have plenty fortheir own stock. I see any amount of acres thathave not more than half a ton per acre, xuemilk producer is having a bad time. I thinkif the Milk Controller had a dairy farm now hewould soon know what it was to be there,with no grass, cows making more money, cakeand feed stuffs all going up in prices, labourdouble (and little to be had), and milk at Is. gallon. And yet the public are willing to givemore money for milk. They do not grumble atpaying Is. id. per pint bottle of beer, andwe farmers are getting less than 2d. per pintfor milk delivered to the wholesale man. Last June the Controller did the same thing—made a mess of it, only worse. Last June we. [Sjiort and Truro Show. Pfioto hy~] 1st prize in jumping contest only got Is. 5d. per gallon, and the retailer gotIs. 5d. per gallon for selling it. This time weget Is. 3d., and the retailer gets 9d. per gallonfor selling it. The public never said a word,but a lot of farmers did, and, whats more, theygave up the business. I know several morethat intend doing it this autumn. The farmersdo not mind controlled prices, b t we must havea living profit, and milk is now a dead loss. As far as labour is concerned, we are worseou now then in war time. They have taken awayall soldier labour off the farms just at the timethey are wanted; the result is there is anyamount of land which will not be either ploughedor sown this year. I wonder when the time willcome when we shall get men at the head ofaffairs who understand the business. We havebeen ordered about long enough. What withwages, hours they have to work, and such like,we are not masters. I think it is
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