AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 58, 29 July 1914, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

OPENED YESTERDAY. By Telegraph—Press Association.. Wellington, Yesterday. In opening the Agricultural Conference to-day the chairman (Mr. E. A. Campbell) said he tad never known a year when so much of what New Zealand had produced had kept at such a high level, and it would appear as if the consumption of wool, meat and all the by-products in Europe had overtaken production. The United States, which six years ago were the largest meat exporters to Britain, were not now able to supply themselves and already large quantities of Argentine meat had re-a, hed the New York market and even some small parcels from this country. From the way both cattle and sheep were falling in numbers, with everincreasing! Ipopulation, this trade must increase to enormous proportion* There was only one farming industry in New Zealand which had fallen off, an; 1 that was grain growing. The cause, no doubt, was that New Zealand had not been able to compete with new countries', but he believed it was only th'i swing of the pendulum. The day was not far distant when these now lands would 'become worn out and would require to be fed with manure and, if the world was able to consume all the grain grown at the present time, what would it do in ten years or more, when there were no new countries to open up?