EXPERIMENTAL FARMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 133, 5 June 1907, Page 9

EXPERIMENTAL FARMS.

(By Teiegrapt—Press Association.) Tuesday. ! Speaking at rhf opening of the Winter i Sho-w io-da.—. the Hon. -J. A. Miliar said iho president had mentioned that the Agricultural Department had decided not i to establish an experimental farm in the South Isjand. la his (Mr Millar's) opinion there mu-E be some misunder- [ standing on that point. If he knew tie • mind of his colleague, the Minister for Agriculture on the matter, it 'was that j there ooght to be grea-ter concentration , in the matter of experimental farms. , ami tiiat they .-hoxiJd not.be so. widely ; distributed. He bad not. however, understood that Mr MfXab was oppased to the establishment of an experimental farm in the :>omii I-land. and had =o de- ! cided. As far ac he IMr ifiHarj was | eon-.-erned h<y wonkf have something to say on the subject it he'ascertained that the statement of the position ; vras a correct one. (Applause.) He was fully convinced of the great good that experimental farms were to the community. Such farms were established in j Auckland and Wellington provinces, and I he considered the -hould be continued in the South Island. The farmers of Zealand., not <>i! the Xorth Island , only, had to r-ornppfp in the market* of the world, and it behoved v* to do aIL that was possible to ensure oar products ! being able to miiinTain that present hip;h I position. The Argentine was from year i to year pnshLn-i it-elf forward, and it | was only now a matter of time when it , would be cur doughty competitor. He j had only that day beea informed by a | friend that so preat was" the progress j being made in the Argentine, and so great was the effort that was being made to- improve the quality of its- output, that within a few years that country would send barter to the London market equal in quality to that of New Zealand.