BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 23 December 1910, Page 4

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE.

The Department of Agriculture of New South Wales is organising an agricultural bureau, with headquarters at Sydney, which might well be copied in New Zealand. The objects of the bureau are to gather information respecting plants, animals or products likely to prove of value to cultivators; to' discover the best methods of cultivating suitable economic crops, of breeding and feeding domestic animals, and of preparing products for market; to find where markets exist; to assist in collecting statistics regarding areas under cultivation in different districts; to settle for each district the best times for fallowing, sowing and harvesting; to determine cost of cultivation of each product; to prevent introduction and spread of insect and fungus pests; to publish bulletins, abstracts and repoi-ts; to encourage social intercourse between farmers' families; to collect and publish such information as would be of value to persons, engaged in the various branches of agriculture; and generally to raise the social and educational status of the men i zvr on the land, and of their families. The bureau is mainly educational, any political and religious discussion being absolutely barred.