FARMERS' UNION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 819, 17 May 1910, Page 8

FARMERS' UNION.

' TARANAKI REMITS.' The order paper for the Taranaki Provincial Conference of the Farmers' Union has come to hand. The conference is to sit on "Wednesday and Thursday. There are twenty remits for consideration. The first, by the. executive, protests against the refusal of the Government in handing roads and bridges grants to local bodies to allow the cost of engineering and supervision to be charged against the grants. -The"State'fire insurance question is to be" discussed. Eltham recommends that steps be taken to form:a milk-testing association. Resistance to further tnxa-' tion is urged by tho executive. Kaponga desires that the Department of 'Agriculture be requested to .publish .a: monthly, journal. Takaka is in favour of the'col-; lection.of agricultural statistics through' the post. More' stringent ; administration of the Noxious Weeds Act is desired by Kaiinata.'and Ng:iiro advocates the appointment of thoroughly aualificd veterinarians as stock inspectors. Stratford has a proposal that the Farmers' Union act as a land and estate agency. The rating of Native lands, tho Crown Suits Act, and telephone extension' are also mado the subject of remits, as are manurial experiments, tho sale of unsound bulls, turnip blight, and the Opunake railway. The executive advocates the putting up to auction of Crown lands whero there is more than one applicant for a section. Ngaire has this remit :-V"That in conjunction with the testing of dairy stock for stud purposes a herd book be kept, and stock eligible to be placed in thd herd book shall be: (1) Cows giving not less than 121b. butter-fat in one week; (2) bulls, four of whoso progeny are giving not less than 121b.' butter-fat in ono week."