AGRICULTURAL ESTIMATES.
SOME OF THE ITEMS. A glance at iho Government's Estimates -for the year ending March 31, 1912, shows tho following amongst (ho sums set down for the development of tho Department of Agriculture work;— C'ow-tcjting associations, ,£500; demonstration of pasteurisation of skim milk and tfhey, i 200; grading dairy produce, .£350; purchase of dairy requisite and produce for experiments, .£350; reworking daily butter, JGISO; importation and breeding of natural enemies of insect peats, .£SO; guarantee of experimental shipment of tipples, JE323; expenses in connection with outbreaks of orchard and garden diseases, JCIOO; co-operative fruit-testing plots, ,£SO; promotion of sale of New Zealand produce in outsiao markets, training young men at Rauku'ra Experiment Farm, JS1000; purchase of stud stock, , JE3000; . purchase stock, salaries, etc., nonltry farms (Manniahaki), (Rualuira), ,£350; espeririisitls, jegrassing denuded laud, -£250; inoculation of calves for black leg, .£200; inspection of. manure stcrilisin?, 'dESSO; inspection of meat, ,£225; fostering fruit industry, .£100; festering beo industry, £o0 ; wages and expenses in connection with destruction of noxious weeds, .2500.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1237, 20 September 1911, Page 8
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