Important to Farmers.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. VI ay 16. Twenty-six associations and farmers' clubs are to be represented at the forthcoming agricultural and pastoral associations' conference. Among the subjects to be discussed are the establishment of a flock book for sheep ; erection of public abattoirs ; amendment of the present Dairy Act, with a view to compulHory grading and branding of all butter exported ; to discuss measures for putting a stop to sheep and cattle stealing ; and compelling auctioneers to register all brands ; providing cool storage for dairy produce at the principal ports ; advisability of taxing stallions ; elementary agriculture in State schools ; exclusion of sheep suffering from foot rot from all public yards; small birds* nuisance ; opening up fresh market; 1 ! for produce, introduction of a suitable class of farmers with capital ; promotion of irrigation works; reciprocal tariffs between the various colonies ; free interchange of products ; tax on horses from those colonies that tax oui'H.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 306, 17 May 1894, Page 2
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155Important to Farmers. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 306, 17 May 1894, Page 2
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