The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1892. The Stock Conference

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 56, 29 October 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1892. The Stock Conference

The Australian Stock Conference which has been sitting in Wellington 1 promises to do good work if we may judge by the number and importance of the subjects they have undertaken to discuss. They are as follows:— 1 1 Eegulations regarding the introduction of foreign animals; foreign diseases namely, diseases, not known in Australia. 2. Regulations regarding the introduction of Australian animals — (a) by sea (b) by land. Re gulations regarding disease— (a) scab (b) catarrh, (c) fluke (d) worms (c) foot-rot (f) anthrax (g) pleuro pnuemonia (h) tuberculosis (i) stringhalt (k) coccidum and actinomycosis (1) prurigo (horse mange, Queensland). 4. The rabbit peso. 5. Ohii led meat trade. 6. Stud Book for Australasia. The principle has been affirmed that the responsibility of rabbits must rest on the land holder, the State accepting a similar responsibility for unoccupied Crown land ; that the rabbit pest has made the continuance of the system of an annual lease of Crown lands impossible ; that no finality in the rabbit destruction will be obtained without making the erection of rabbit-proof fences compulsory; that the Department administering rabbit destruction Acts should be empowered to permit fencing of holdings in groups; that simultaneous operations for the destruction of rabbits in the infested country with netting 4in. in width above and 6in. in the ground, with a mesh of l£in. forms a practical and effectual barrier against the increase of rabbits ; that the system of compulsory trapping with professional trappers is radically bad ; that Legislative measures should be taken, compelling landowners and lessees in infested districts to join in the erection of rabbit proof netting and fencing, and to make additions to existing fences.