AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4123, 27 May 1892, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

The Grain Record,

Important Resolutions. ' [By Telegraph.—Pres3 Association.]

CaniSTOnUROn, Friday. At the Agricultural Conference it was decided to recommend the Go* vernment to establish two or more peripatetics in the Colony. Motions p in favour of bonuses for creameries and potato farina were negatived. It was resolved that the Govern* ment be asked that all threshing machines be licensed and owners required to furnish a record of all grain threshed, in order that a more accurate record of the grain of the Colony may be obtained, and that they should be compelled to give their total thralling twice a year. The Conference favoured the appointment of an entomolo* gist, with a view to the thorough investigation of the insect and parasite pests, and especially with reference to their life and history and the means of dealing with them. It was also resolved that steps be L±. taken to introduce elemontary agricultural education and farm bookkeep- . Jing into State schools, such education to be substituted for some part of the present syllabus of less general importance, and not be mado an addi • tional subject; that scholarships gained at Primary schools be available it desired at Lincoln College; and that the Government should undertake the analysis of manures with a vio\v of preventing fraudulent tr»n< sactions. It was decided that the date of the Hawke's Bay Association be taken as starting dates for other Bhows. The following was decided as the order of the Metropolitan shows —Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Cbristchurch, Dunediu, Invoice rgill, Oumuru, Timaru and Tnranaki.