162 



Journal of the Department op Agriculture. 



The scorino- has been slipfhtly chanp-ed, anrl Tvill be: — 

 ^0 per cent, for ciiltivatioii. 

 oO ppi' cent, for quantity. 

 40 per ceni. U)v ([uality. 



Tlie entries are coming in now. We hope to liave a larger 

 competition this year than we had last year. 



A Danger to he Faced. — Farmers, I fear, do not fully realize the 



importance — or should I say the absolute necessity — of not only 



district co-operation but of national and international co-operation. 



South Africa, fortunately, may not have reached the critical stage of 



other countries, where production is reaching a liigher cost than the 



market or selling piice of the produce, but this danger seemS' to be 



facing the world to-day, and should it get established we will be faced 



M'ith serfdom in its worst form. A short while ago Senator Smitli, of 



South (-arolina, warued the public of the dangerous position into 



which the farming jmblic were fast drifting. The following are 



figures which he gave, and must have been obtained from reliable 



sources : — 



Average Cost of n^ i .. r> • 



n J ,. Market Prico. 



Production. 



Cents. Cents. 



Cotton P,7^ .18 



Briglit tobacco .27 .10 



Dark tobacco 20 .IT) 



Wheat 2.77 1.05 



Monkey nuts 09 .04 



Beef 13 .07 



In regard to cottcni, the above figures converted into British 

 money would be 18^d. and 9d. in America, and accountino- for freight 

 and ex'diange the Liverpool value of the same figures would be about 

 Is. lid. and Is. Hd., or an actual loss of about 9^id. per lb. in the 

 I)rodu(>tion of cotton. 



Friesland Herd, 



