Farm and Dairy

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 33, 29 June 1914, Page 3

Farm and Dairy

BREEDING OlMiEAkTlilEll STOCK.

Mr. Roakes, Chiei Veterinary Surgeon of the Agricultural Department,' is intensely practical, and it affords liim considerable pleasure to know that as a result of the effective work bring done in 'his division, there is Its® disease in •stock than tl ere was. He confirmed recent statements at Palmergton regarding the disease in stock being on the down grade, tuberculosis being! particularly referred to. There ihad, he said, been very gratifying resu)ts in checking a disease that had proved very costly to tihe country, and he was quite sjure that, if iiic co-ojpenation between farmers . and the department officers kept on extending, it would tend to a still further decrease. Mr. Reakes also stated that there was a very satisfactory decrease in disease among pigs.

CONTAGIOUS MAMMITIS AND BUSH SICKNESS. The Department of Agriculture is_ doing its best to deal with contagious maininitis, and according to Mir. Reakes, iiiCShjef Veterinarian, the Department Iliad K a eprum at Wol!a«evillc which, they were Lpvingta good trial. Cases sent along to k-'jlie Dcartment would receive attention. it'.lr Reakes suggested careful observajj. on among farmers. : Bust sickness was ir . lother disease tthey had been inveatitt. .ting in the Nwrth. ' 'a- \ . er -.COMPULSORY HERD TESTING.

'.r. F. S. Mcßae, President of the | Mawafcu A. and P. Association, sayta | th he would like to see herd-testing | 'i"'« compulsory among farmers. Sub- j stsial benefits would accrue to_ fac- I t<w\. and dairymen would contribute I THoifcutter-fat. '

BOXEDTJST DIMINISHING.

"Bijdust is fortunately diminishing, for tie is alwayse the danger of diseace !ng imported by it, and it has no apjent extra benefit except that it contaila percentage of nitrogen up to 4 per remarked Mr J. G. Wilson, Union, , the course of his address on 'VfhospHes" at the National Dairy Conferei, .at Palmerston North recently. "Sfyphonphnte has latterly mostly been iipplicd 'from Tasmania and Japan. Vth the shorter sea voyage, as compad with London, there is less impaction, Basic slag is increasing in favour, aprding to statistics, as iiS. guano antrock phosphate. Wc have a small qiptlty of r6ck phosphate in New ZealaJ, near Miltiurn, in private •hands, whtmftiirally get as much for it as the permits. They are said to be turmiiout SOOO tons per annum. From enqui|s I have made from men most compett to judge, there does not seen to be tuch chance of any large deposits beis found, but these slioukl be looked foiin limestone districts."

ANI> POLITICS.

In responds to the toast of the National DairjAssociation at the Manawatu A. ant P. smoke concert, Mr Morton (chairan) paid a tribute to the Minister ft Agriculture. He 'said that when Mr hssey attended the eon- i ference and 'hcdl tile cheers and spontaneous outburii) of applause, he must have been eonviied that he was among friends. The dory industry knew no party. '•! . THE FARMERING ELECTRICITY. "Jt has twii thejxperienee in Europe," eaid Dr. C. £. delivering his presidential address o the Electrical Association of New Suth Wales last week, "that the farmer toon becomes one of the best customcrsto an electrical supply undertaking (K'C his natural conservatism has ben overcome. Much the same tli'rng is liplv to apply to Australia, mow; partfalarly, of course, wher the mcreasecj cost of wages t® rural workers nmsttoree the fanner to take advantage of lie economics which are offered .by the aMication of electrical power. From tff electrical point <®f view, I think one my safely say that every increase in jages provides the electrical industry Vith increased opportunities, and mfces possible more rapid developments Jid extensions than would otherwise oc^r*