King Country Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 1911. THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 352, 12 April 1911, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, April 12, 1911. THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK.

The speech made by the Minister of Agriculture on Friday night in Te Kuiti deserves more than passing notice, as drawing attention to the highly saisfactory position New Zealand has returned to, after the financial crisis of !9OS. Mr Mackenzie showed that while sheep had decreased in number, wool had increased in use; while cotton became scarcer, its use was immensely swelled; and that the shortage of sheep and the increased, and increasing, consumption of mutton and lamb, was accompanied by world-wide prosperity, and an abnormal output of gold. Looking round this globe of ours. Mr Mackenzie was forced to the

conclusion that, given a continuance of prosperitv and peace, nothing, but New Zealand's own negligence, could prevent her attaining a very strong position in the world's marietta with her output and export of wool, mutton, butter and gold. The Minister drew attention to the vitally important work his department was engaged on : the weeding out of the "waster" cows, and stamping out of tubercular disease amongst cattle and piga. This work comes of especial value and importance in a district where dairying will shortly be established on a much larger scale, and in its application, not only to the settlers' pockets, but to the general health of the community, it deserves the support and encouragement of every dairyman in the district. It is becoming increasingly evident that a very close relation exists between tubercular disease in cows and in human beings, and only by banishing defective cows and pasteurising and sterilising all milk, can the people hope to escape from the serious risk of contracting disease. It is very satisafctory to have Mr Mackenzie's assurance that practically all butter for export is now made from pasteurised and sterilised cream. What we who remain in New Zealand would like to be assured i 3 that all butter and milk consumed here is pasteurised and sterilised.