MAORI SCHORARSHIPS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 19

MAORI SCHORARSHIPS.

Three To Makarini scholarships of the yearly value of' £35, tenablo for two yoara at To Auto College, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys not over sixteen years of ago at tho end of the month. preceding the date of the examination; the other two scholarships aro junior scholarships, one of which is open to , all Maori boys under fourteen years of age at tho end of the month preceding the ,date of the examination .who havo attended a Native school or schools under the control of the Education Department, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open on similar conditions kA Maori boys whose attendance at any school other than To Ante and St. Stephen's during the previous year has been satisfactory. Tho examination will bo held at convenient centres on' December 5 and 6,1910. Candidates must, either directly, or through their teachers,, send notico to the Inspector of Native. Schools, Edu-

cation- ■ Department, Wellington, oF their intention to present' themselves for examination not-later : than October 26. , . In- feeding 'tests with- dairy cows atthe Illinois experiment- ■ station,. at TTi-J-. baiiA, reported in - Bulletin 146, 'it has boon found (says tho " Breeders,' Gazette'-' to hand by last mail) that .a ration' containing; 10 -pounds of alfalfa hay produces 17 per cent, more milk than the; same ration - when timothy , is' substituted for tho alfalfa. In a' teiA jrliere alfalfa .waß 'substituted:: for- sinequal weight of bran it; v.as found that. w , '

tho alfalfa was equal to or a little ■: better ...than' bran for. milk production, under the conditions. which are the samo as those existing- on most dairy farms.. -These' -two-: demonstrations, indicate that alfalfa hay will "not only supply a palatable rougnage and a large amount of .protein,- -but also' ..that . alfalfa keeps tlio animals in hotter, physical 'condition,; thaii] such as timothy •; hay - with-'grains • high k'- protein. : Like,the. other legumos, it takes largo amounts'.of. nitrogen from th© >ir and causes it to bo fixed in the. soil.: For these reason's the\experiment sta-' tion urges ' that' every .dairyman j make a strenuous effort to grow at least a small piece'of alfalfa.'.. N' if