COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1918, Page 4

COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE.

I RESOLUTIONS PASSED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The conference of the Council of Agriculture resolved that, in the opinion of the conference, there should only be one breeders' society for each breed of animals and one register for each; that the conference considers it advisable, on account of the shortage of shearers, that all sheep-owners should be asked to engage, wherever, possible, one learner to every four shearers or part thereof; that* the Department of Agriculture be urged to certify' to the value, or other-, wise, of all sheep dip mixtures offered for sale in the Dominion, with a view to ascertaining whether the mixture put up may foe deemed satisfactory dip for killing tics and lice on sheep; that, in view of the want of uniform treatment by pastoralist-s of foot rot, which has seriously increased in Hawke's Bay this year, the Government be urged to make exhaustive experiments and advise as to the best treatment; that further steps be taken to urge upon the Government tn have investigation? made for the cause and prevention of dry-rot in turnips; that the Government be urged to conscript for national work all eligible enemy aliens and persons of enemy descent "who might claim exemption from militarv service by reason of their enemy parentage. It was decided to urge the Government to make mandatory those clauses in the Rating Act, giving power to local bodies to exempt bona fide show grounds from taxation. A motion that the conference, at its rising, should adjourn sine die, was withdrawn. After discinsion, the following council was elected:—North Island, Q. Donald, E- A. Campbell, E. Hall; South Island, J. MTherson, G. A. Mac Donald, W. D. Hunt. The conference then concluded-