EXPERIMENTAL FARM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 478, 30 May 1919, Page 2

EXPERIMENTAL FARM.

() -f: f»{ the finest proposals ever brought forward in the Franklin County is that advanced !.y the Fianklin Agricultural and Pastoral Socioty, for a State experimental farm to be established in '.hi- County Far and widr, the Puk' kohe district is th admira. tion ant envv <>t pb«v- less f '.-•onic-1 bv nature in variet >• and 1 fertility ('l -'"'l'. Search New | /(■aland from t!i< Three pug-, to j Stewart I-land, and :t '\oii!dbel impo- ; il'lc to find a in on. Mrtabliphu for an experimental farm.' A pan from th'- .ar ict. of tnc : soils, experimentation on which would •(! 1 nabh to the .onn j try at large, the place ii i,u situ- '

atecl — on the Main Trunk line,

and handy to the foremost city in the Dominion —that thousands of men from all parts of New Zealand would be able, at very little cost and inconvenience, to visit the farm, and pet first-hand informaHon and observation of the work and its results. The fact that agricultural and horticultural Shows are regular annual features in the meeting and distributing centre of the district is also a very considerable factor in favour of the proposal. The A. and P. Societv are deserving of the Highest commendation for initiating so eminently sensible and practicable a project, and we hope enthusiasm for the scheme will be fostered, and such driving force generated, that the proposed Franklin experimental farm will, at no very distant date, become an actual institution, giving help and guidance in a sphere where il Is needed more than any other, in a country the prosperity of which is almost wholly dependant upon the paoductivity of the soil, or, in other words, the volume and value of our exports.