MORE STATE IMPORTATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1048, 10 February 1911, Page 8

MORE STATE IMPORTATIONS.

: WEREROA.

'.'As is generally kiiown, the' State has. a 'lininber. of, 'pedigree Holstein cattle at

-.therWereroaveipeTimeiit farm.' To this (herd it,was recently, decided! to add some '■';. -new ■ blood.!, Miv J. Dxysdalc,, the man--V agpr'.of ;the farm|'..wcnt to : Australia. re;oently r and purchased,some Holsteins, of :- which" it ■is 6aid ' that ■ they" will' be' a ; xaluablo acquisition to'the,present.stud. • ■:'.On'VW^driosdAy'"■ the' AVarrlmoo .from• . Sidney brought to ; -.-Wellington., half- a "-,-doron Holstcins, .'representing - Mr. Drys■;■'.dnlq's purchases. The cattle' are now'in , i quararitino on j Somes Island.

;';PREVENTINp iTUBERCULOSIS.

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;■'.; Mr.,. J. 'f'Oahiop's'', references in- his fcFcildihg speech to tho possibilities: of X;New?Zcaland building up a very .payr able:pork::«portation industry are sure ■;:Jto hate.created'considerable •interest in •I all the farming communities.',-«,•-■<,.? *'»-■•'• . ; ;.-The v Minister for Agriculture is of opin- ,' ion that if-New Zealand goes along right .■...•lines';sho-could enormously.increase her a output, of pork. Our trquble is. ho says, y- • pigs' are ;not;',very.'-free'from' :r s :disease. '•;■}•,.:■.■ ... .:.:Kif : '-v'>v*.i;: >i " '•. F. OT '- a '- 6°°d while, experiments have ••, been-} pursued -.. by, the of ' at,' tho- .Glen : Oroua dairy .; factory with the object of checking the ;, by sterilising the skim <, m }x : : These experiments are ; tho -'.most undertaken in tho.country, and .•it is'known (as has been stated in these ■;, opiuilins); that the results have been .:■', actual .'figures' ;.' Jiave-.not.been obtainable. Therefore, it v .: : ,^9[;'', 'I ter «st ■ to. Lear from, tho Minister ',"■ •' ***& ? n « • figures - are, and .very pleasing .to .notice .what, they noint to. Of all the ,Y,-..-,, .fed- on 'pasteurised ;;skini,'m'ilk the „ number which developed tuberculosis, the ■ Mmister says, is oi\e in eighty. • ; ; is-' a. most .satisfactory result, arid 5 il. !!>? "i".'* 0 ; ¥~ abl ? to K ive - ,m «°h 'fuller ■Tiartieularslipf the experiments shortly.