AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10037, 11 July 1910, Page 6

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS.

OFFER OF LAND BY MR W. PERRY. I . At She imeting of the general committee of the Masterton A. n~d P. Association on Saturday last, 2i' W. Perry, oE Penrose, brought up the matter of conducting experiments on farms. He said that he had recently noticed tlnat settlers on the West Coast were offering land to the Government upon which experiments could be carried out. The largest offer bad been that of Mr J. G. Wilson, a well-known farmer, which the Government had accepted. "We in,the Wairarapa," said Mr Perry, "have no experimental farms, and are in conseq.ioi.cd getting behind the tirms The firmer derived great benefit from these experiments, and I am of opinion that if we had a plot of ground in our own district upon which the Government could conduct agricultural experiments much more interest would be taken in them and more value placed on them by the farmer. Ic is with this object in "view that I have much plea* sure in offering to the Government through this Association, ten acres of my land near the roadnide for three or four years frie of all expenses for experimental purposes."

Mr D. McGregor, junr., said Mr Perry was deserving ot the heartiest thanks not only of the Association but of every farmer in the district foi his splendid offer. "Tha experimental farms in other parts of the Dominion are not as useful to us as one in our own district," remarked Mr McGregor". "A real live interest would b9 taken by farmers in experiments conducted on their own properties."' He moved that the offer be acce'pted with thanks, and communicated to the Agricultural Department. Mr J. C. McKillop in seconding the motion, said that Mr Perry was to be commended for his generosity. "If the Government want some more land," said Mr McKillop, "they can have some out my way and see what they can do witn it." Mr G. C. bummerell, chair man of the General Committee, also spoke in eulogistic terms of Mr Perry's offer, and said that if the Government accepted it the experiments conducted on the land would be both instructive and oeneficial to the farmer. All members of the Association, he was sure, would take a keen interest in the experiments. The motion was carried.