NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2803, 22 June 1916, Page 8

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW

SECOND DAY • UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS . '(By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Palmerston Norths June 21. Tho weather conditions for tho second day, of the National Dairy. Show were not lit all favourable/and the attendance was not so largo as last year. The main outside attraction was the To Aute-Wanga-nui College match. Under ctiver tho Agricultural- Department's very line exhibit attraoted the attention of all iu;teresMiin; the-products of the soil. The Agricultural machinery exhibit also . 'proved-a soutcb of great attraction." The fat sfcock division, consisting of sheep •'find lambs, did not evoke very niiicli com--''"petition, the ton classes only drawing •exhibits from the flocks of Akers Bros., Linton, and J. M'Kelvie, Carnarvon. The former won four firsts, three seconds, and . threo thirds, but Mr., M'Kelvie gained i most firsts, semiring six, as well as nine scconds and four thirds: f ADDRESSES TO FARMERS ; " S EXPERTS' ADVICE. The National- Dairy Conference was wntiimed at the showgrounds yesterday, • when, addresses were delivered by officers ,i>f the Department of Agriculture. -r' llr. J, Brown, Director of tlw Fields •Division of the Department of Agrioul- ' •{ire, spoke on' "Some Factors Aftoa'ting •Methods "of Farni Management in the •tNorth.island." In the course of his ad- . dress, he said,that on/adequate suppiy'of 'humus was of great importance. For•lunateiy, the North Island goiierally hud adequate supply. As to liming, he ■considered that .systematic use of lime ;w'6uld..bring very satisfactory results in I most, parts .of New • Zealand. Nitrogen "should rarely; be needed in New' Zealand if'the furms'were properly lhiinagod, and ■phosphates were the. most essential of tho , tertiusers. There"did hot seem to beany solid reason for'-rotational, farming here, though a little'of .it would improve our ■poorer land. Good pasture was, and .must continue to-be, the mainstay of tlie North Island. Most good, pastures might be improved by periodical manuring; but fcre«n manuring was usually wasteful. If lucerne could be grown, the maximum of .. profit could not' be' obtained- without _it. : /Interesting, impressions received during • Ins recent visit to America were related by, Mr. E. Clifton, Now Zealand's representative at the Panama Exhibition. The first tiling he mentioned Was that'there was a great difference between tho cli:mato of New Zealand and the climate of , North America,' and the difference was Tall in favour of New Zealand, in the farmers had the rigours and extremes of climate to contend with. ..There-was the problem of winter housing , and feeding,'and the necessity of going . in considerably for.irrigation. . The cattle C.kept in America, were very similar to the ; : New Zealand breeds,' exoept that a useful ..type of Guernsey cow was in particularly _ higli favour. There was a system of co--operation in America, but it differed from ...New Zealand co-operation. Usually the were financed by packing houses, il&nd this kind of co-operation was benefi'.,cial to the farmers,'and more so to the. ..packing houses. New Zealand's schcmc ,of Advances to Settlers was very interesting to tho Americans, and their .nearest approach to it was a scheme ot ...what they called rural credits. ( _ Mr. G. H. Valentine, dairy instructor ,iin the North Auckland district, address;;ed the conference on "Points on Managi-i ...ment under Home Separation." „ All the lecturers were thanked for their . contributions.