FARMERS & PARADES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1840, 28 August 1913, Page 10

FARMERS & PARADES.

(Br Teleerapli—Prcsa Association.) Tlmaru, August 26. Major Barclay,, officer commanding the South Canterbury infantry, conferred to-day with Representatives of tlio Farmers' Union, and laid before them tlio proposal to substitute whole or half-day parades for evening drills for country Territorials. The union's representatives heartily approved of the scheme, preferring full days,'and recommended two each month, in September. October, and November. It is admitted that this arrangement will not suit townspeople.

Co-operative field experiments were conducted on 586 farms in the Dominion last season, while 440 farmers, provided with free seed, lime, and inoculated soil, tested lucerne on their holdings.^ Tho Board of Education is about to invite applications for the position of assistant instructor in agriculture. Tho salary is to be £200, rising by £10 increases to : £250. Expenses (£75) will bo allowed. An Ashhurst Co-operativo Dairy Company has been formed, and has acquired the Dairy Union's factory there. Mr. Donald M'Kenzie has presented tho "Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society with a shield for competition in tlhe ladies' hack class. Tho trophy is to bo compoted for undor similar conditions to tho cup which tho donor won outright at the last show. It was reported at a mooting of tho General Committee of tho Wairarapa P. and A. Society that Mr. W. Strang had promised the same support as last year, viz., £10; that Levin and Co., as agents for the Lister Shearing Machine Co., had promised a cup for tho sheep classes, and that Mr. T. W. M'Kenzie had promised a £10 10s. cup, to be won twice in succession, or three times at intervals for tho cattle classes. It has taken many years to build up the reputation of the "Gilruth" Calf Food, but at last merit is rewarded, arid this food comes into its own. The "Gilruth", Calf Food is now stocked by almost every Storekeeper in the Dominion.—Advt. Advt.