High Values
The price of products has given a new zest to rural gossip, if the wo may be used in a good sense. Some fresh example occurs continual! " After advertising for two months to no purpose, Mr. A. has bought swarm of bees for ten guineas." Or, " Mrs. B. has sold her old he with ten day-old ducklings for 55 shillings." Or, " The butcher sold pheasant out of cold storage for a guinea." Or, "Did you hear t Widow C. sold her hen-house (no more than a bit of board and s tar-paper) for three-pound-ten? " Or, " Mrs. D. had trouble to enough milk for the children, so they paid nine guineas for a goat, whic they can't milk." It is not only the bumbler products that soar so hi Some young bulls were sent to a sale from the research farm ; and t breeder, an expert in market prices, expected to get perhaps as much £80. He did get kao. I quote these genuine figures, not to imp that the producers are profiteering (and if anyone may profiteer he the producer) as to suggest that it is not so bad a thing that the value essential produce should be realised. Pullets, goats, and swarms of be can never again be despised by those who lived through a time of stre
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