STATE FARMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 148, 13 June 1908, Page 2

STATE FARMS.

Per Pro S s /; B , cUtlon> The in„u.; shi; 011 ' «-ik-.i tiuMo „„: "; : t ,wl to ' il - i J'' «t the chief feature's ;.?'a""''^,. 0 " 6 Unl X,> *'?■■*" amoiiv n,> ,iii i * opening cereciul •issistn,,.,, ti ■ nec ' t Jinan>'d to c-»iintry shows, when it would bo seen that even lirsU-iass fanners had muc i lu Icani J-i-oi.i the scientist and 1»» laboratory. The fanner must turn out produce w-Inc-l: would stand supreme above tliut of all competitors. For that lie had to have knowledge that could not be acquired within, the ring fence ol a lanu. 1 lio tanner required to call science, to his assistance, and unless scientific men could be brought to this country and put under the control of the head of the Department of iWiculture that knowledge could not "be made available for them, fnles* the (•overiiiuent of the country brought these scientist* to the doors of the people of New Zealand their assistance > could not be obtained at all. The Department of Agriculture was but in its I infancy, and it would have to grow. They showed that day materials grown on the experimental farm. They wanted men who could ]>ut these lessons in concrete form for the. benefit of farmers, for £BO out of every £IOO worth of exports from (lie Dominion came from tlw farmers, and only £2O out of even.CUM) from all other industries, trades, and occupations. If they wanted to make their industries more, valuable and increase their expotts tliev mtw' develop along lines which such a snow as theirs represented, lie was not able to tell them where the experimental farms of the future would be located, but he was in „ position to say that they hoped to have within a few years such a- system of experimental farms that work done in connection with them would be a duplicate of all the agricultural work done in New Zealand. Whether an experimental farm would lie placed in the Ashliurton district was a question for the Department's expert. The Minister was bampiclled in the evening, when I here was a large and representative attendance.