JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14658, 6 May 1913, Page 4

JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.

Tho Egmont A. and P. Association made a profit of £261 on the year's working (says n Press Association message, from Hawera).

At a meeting of fifty delegates of farmers held at Hawera, representative of tho whole province, it was unanimously decided to form a farmers' cooperative organisation society. A provisional prospectus was drawn up and an executive committee appointed. Mr G. L. Buckeridge was appointed chairman of the executive. The company will have an initial capital of £500 CKiU, rtnd will have for its object the purchasing of farmers' requisites and the distribution of thoir produce.

:■- It is intended by Mr H. McLachlan to open a depot for lime-burning for building and for grinding same for agricultural purposes, at North Loburn. Arrangements have been in progress for the erection of tho kilns, and an effort is being made to obtain i tho formation of a road. The Mines j Department analysis of the limestoneseam to ba worked shows it to be composed of silica 1.90, alum : na 2.05, oerric oxido 2.25, lime (C.A.Q.) 50.30, magnesia 0.91, phosphorus anhydride ■0.7f), carbonic anhydride 33.85, moistnro J and loss 2.98; total, 100 per cent. The samplo sent contained 83.5 per cent, of pure carbonate of lime. This, notes tho Analyst (Mr J. S. Maclaurin p.Sc.), is a 'Vat" limestone, containing a considerable amount "of phosphoric acid. It would be valuable, he adds, for agricultural or buildinc purposes.

_ Tho postponed annual general meetnig <n cue- iibuinuLoa maiioii ot uio tavmecs' Uniou was Held on baturcay. Iho balance-sheet showed a credit balance of itio 16$ (>d. Tiie election of oihears resulted as follows:—President, Mr It. Gilmour (re-elected;; Vice-presi-dent, Mr J. Cfc»borne (re-elected); treasurer, Mr C. llcid (re-electeti); secretary, Mr J. JU. Christian (re-elected); auditor, Mr J. W. liowden (re-elected;; committee, Messrs F. l'rauipton, J. Grigg, \V. T. Liil, A. Horsey, T. E. L'piou, W. Harding, J. Copland, H. 11. Simpson, G. W. Leatlley, j. jt±. Hampton, W. Jewell. U. K. Kansen, and A. i>. Haynian. The following remits were ordered to be sent to tho

i Provincial Executive: —(1) "That the ■ Provincial Executive be urged to ro- : commend the Government to support ■ the ll.'gli Commissioner in prosecuting ■ persons selling Argentine and otlier J countries' produce as products of tho i Dominion of New Zealand; (2) that tho i Hailway Department be asked to revise 1 the passenger rates and place them on ', a more equitable basis; (.3) that when I an employer has insured his employees ! ngninst accident in any reputable accident insurance office, in the joint names of the mortgwiPfva-nd mortgagor, subsections 4 and o of section 41 of tho Workers' Compensation Act, iIHJa, should not apply. Tho chairman and

Messrs F. Framnton and C. Keid were apjxjinted delegates to the conference.