EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 25 March 1912, Page 10

EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS.

VIEWS OF SIS' G. CLIFFORD. IBj Teleffraph.-Siierial Correspondent.) Christchurch, March 22. In his address at the annual meeting of the Canterbury. A. and P. Association Sir Geo. -Clifford (tho president) said the Department of Agriculture "should be under the management of non-political commissioners who could devote trained intclligenco to tho work whoso whole abilities should bo at the service of the agricultural community, and who should bo responsible for the wise expenditure of the sum which Parliament might entrust to them for their almost paramount purpose, but who above all should bo independent of the political wrangles which nro part of our constitutional system. They had had recently an example'which illustrated his observation. The Farmers' Union had invited the association to cooperate with them in. obtaining experimental stations iu Xorth Canterbury with •the object of fighting, the ravages of the grub. A deputation had waited on the Minister and had been courteously received. They had been assured that'their representations would be considered but so far they kid been treated with conemptous inattention. It was important that Canterbury should lie iu receipt of information .which tho Government could obtain. Private enterprise would never compensate for the absence of organised research. Lincoln College w.as as good in its class as anything in the Southern Hemisphere. At the same time, it had its special purpose, tho education of the youth of the country, and it did a great deal or good in that way; but beyond that they wanted experimental stations throughout the country in many places ?w X. itU 'I" I " , ?'* soils - ile " thought that these should be carriod out on the Canadian systom under which farmers placed plots of ground at the disposal of agricultural inspectors. H -ho were men of experience- and scientific attainment. Jhcse men taught the farmers in their varied ways and under varied conditions wJiat to avoid and what to du in the growth of their crops, and the extirpation of. particular posts. Cntil that was (lone they would not have completed their system for thh best utilisation of the land. Chick-rearing is not only profitable but n pleasure, when you feeil "A and P" Chick Kaiser. It- is a complete and pro-perly-blemled food for Young Chicks. Obtainable from all storekeepers.— Advt. A successful factory business can not ba built up unless, the working plant is of the Lost (Inscription. Jnforiiir "nr -c-ld-I'ash.ioned utensils oat up -profits in repairs, Inst time, and interior products. When planum? for next season make'it a point that "Victor" Vats and Clicpse Hoops be They are easiiv ahead of all ether makes, and have proved wonderfully successful wherever used. Full information obtainable from Albeit J, Parton, Cartorton.—Advt,