AGRICULTURAL BUREAU.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 10

AGRICULTURAL BUREAU.

COMMONWEALTH SCHEME

.. A Bill to establish .an Agricultural . Bureau has been introduced in the ' Commonwealth Parliament by the Prime Minister, Mr. Cook. The aim of tho mover is to create a bureau, and to allow it, subject to the Minister, to 111quirb into and diffuse information connected with agriculture, dairying, horticulture, viticulture, li\o' stack and foiestry, collcc.tion and the propagation and distribution of new valuable seeds and plants; also .the investigation ant eradication of pests affecting plants ami stock, the publication of reports of work in experiment iarin's and the distribution of bulletins.; Au arrangement may lie made with anv State for carrying out experiments and 'investigations, the supply and distribution of seeds and plants, and other matters. Tho Minister is to furnish an annual report to Parliament 011 the. condition of the agricultural, pastoral, dairying, and yiticultural industries and'tho forestry of tho CommonwealUi. The Bill, which lias been on tho stocks "for eight or nine years, said Sir. Cook, was one-of tho most important that had been-introduced . in.this Parliament. Excellent work was now being done by tlie States. ' This bureau could do the work : which they did not cover A •well-etniipped scientific practical laboratory would be established for research work It would be ail investigating rather'than an administrative bureau.

It has taken many y®", l ,'®,. f° 'IP the reputation ot tho Culruth Calf Pood, but at last merit is rewarded,_ and this food comes into its own. Uie bilruth" Cnlf Food is now stocked by nlmost every Storekeeper in the Dominion. Adu. Advt. At Birkcnhsad a woman who was searchins for her lost child fell into a (marry a hundred feet deep aud was [killed.