AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 164, 5 August 1909, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. At the Agricultural Conference a resolution was carried asking the Government to legislate in the direction of ensuring supplies of pure seed and to make it compulsory that an analysis should be given with all stock foods and condiments as in the case of manures. It was decided to encourage the breeding of light horses. A motion introduced by the president*, ia the direction of bringing the daylight saving principle into force was lost by a narrow majority. Wellington, Last Night. The Agricultural Cpngress resolved that in order to afford Dominion youths the opportunity of filling such positions, the Government, through the Ministers of Agriculture and Educations, be asked to adopt some such scheme as outlined in the opening address of the retiring president, so as to provide that a number of veterinary surgeons trained in the Melbourne University (and therefore colonial) would be available for the Government offices in New Zealand in the near future, and it is suggested from this conference that if the A. and P. associations were to subscribe yearly, a sufficient sum would be raised to give one scholar the chance of_ taking the five years' course tinder Professor Gilruth. It was decided to ask smaller associations to contribute £2 and the larger associations .£5 annually towards the scholarship.

( It was also decided that the system of veterinary examination and registering of stallions at present in use in Victoria be adopted in New Zealand; and that the agricultural organisations throughout the Dominion lie urged to promote and foster the formation of cow-testing associations.