AGRICULTURAL BOARD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 10

AGRICULTURAL BOARD

'QUESTIONS , DEALT WITH RECENTLY , v The Board of Agriaulture met recently • i to' consider ■ matters referred to it by the Minister and by the Dommion Coun- . . cil of Agriculture. .;. , •A request by tlie English Board of (Agriculture and-Fisheries that the New Zealand restrictions on the introduction ' of live stock (owing to outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Great Britain) 'bo modified, was considered, together i ,ivith the views of the .Director'of the Live Stock and Meat. Division and tho Secretary of, Agriculture. It was de- . cided to recommend . that .the 'High Commissioner be authorised to make ' inquiries in Great Britain as to whether it was advisable to relax our regulations i . 'in certain; directions, and that Dr. Heakes make inquiries from the Austialian States as.to the procedure - adopted there.

. : Reports were received from:the Director of Geological Survey.;regarding tlia search for mineral phosphates in New ■Zealand,: which has up to. the present SjCGii rather disappointing, although many : samples, have been found showing a small perceiitago of phosphate. Li, conueetion with' the: experiments being conducted' to ; test tho possibility of grinding rock phosphate and limestioiie by electric; power from Lake" Coleridge, a report was' received stating that inquiries were being made to ascer-tain.-what areas within reasonable, distance of'.Lake Coleridge works would 'lw benefited by' lime," either" alone or with the addition of ground phosphate rock; : .

Owing', to the, preseut' high: .price- of basic.;'s|agiL'it: : was -.arranged i that experiments should, bo carried outrto determine the ' most effective substitute for' this popular.,fertiliser,.' and endeavours; are liow being' made .to obtain suit-' nble'areas in different parts'of the Do- . minioh ; ;on--which to: conduct these : im- " portaiit'i,experiments.^'•. .- ' Hie -New 'Zealand - Sheep -:'Breeders' ; 'Associatiou wrote - that the export of inferior' purebred sheep to [Australia,should .be 1 prohibited, as the ■reputation of , the New Zealand -flocks .was likely to bo damaged. It was decided to write, to the association pointing out that ; there was no statutory power to prevent- the export of such sheep, and asking for further : information as t-o the best 'm'ethod of dettliug '.with tho matter. . .

Several letters were received regarding the shortage of farm labour caused iliy the war, and a committee was set ■up to confer .with the Labour Department and -to take immediate action to cope with the difficulty. A.number of questions that had been forwarded'on to ilie board by the Do-, :minion • Council of. Agriculture,_ including amongst others afforestation, the supply of ; s6ed; coi\sultative agricultural committees, the supply of farm labour, late.,- were also carefully discussed and dealt with.

With. referenoe to'-tlie area in the Manawatu Gorge set aside by the Government: ;for- lime-burning purjioses, it was decided to- ask the 'Agricultural Chemist to make . 'a. report as , to'the quality o'£ the iime fdr. agncultural purposes. -■ The following also dealt with: —Shipping,of nitrate of soda, control of tlio State fruit iarms. at Waerenga, Tauranga, and Arataki, and of tho : apiary at:the Ruakura Farm of Instruction ; irrigation in-'Central Otago; feserves for: agricultural . education' purjwses; a report on land in the Waiau iValley; and the Remounts Encourageisent Bill. . : \

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