"REASONABLY PROSPEROUS."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1271, 28 October 1911, Page 8

"REASONABLY PROSPEROUS."

BUT ROOM FOE GREAT IMPROVEMENT. Mr. C. J. Roakos, Director of Livo Stock and Meat in the Department of Agriculture, speaking at tho smoke concert held at Carterton on tho first night of the annual V. and A. show;tkcre, said that there was no doubt that the future of Now Zealand.lay entirely in the hands of the farmers, and the more the farmers made Use of the scientific knowledge at their disposal the better it would be for them and for New Zealand. Tho question of education for the young was very important. There was a move now in tho direction of providing facilities for them and the more tho facilities were increased the better for the country. The more theso advantages—and advantages which he hoped would be offered in tho near future—wero availed of, tho better for al'l concerned. As to tuberculosis, tho Wairarapa was much moro free from it than many other districts in tho country. Being, by comparison,' not greatly troubled with it, tho farmers, there should take care that the disease did not get any worse. The general feeling was that Wairarapa pigs wero pretty clean, and he wanted to make sure they were kept clean, Pasteurisation was one of the best means to that end. If pasteurisation kept the pigs right, it kept the calves too. The great thing was to go in for prevention; it was better, than cure. In the matter of diseases thp man who thought out how to avoid; them' was saving himself a good deal of mtney, and a thoughtless man *ften spread trouble. "I want cvtryopc to appreciate the fact," concluded Mr. Reakes, "that although the farmers are doing pretty well now, and arc reasonably prosperous, tliero is reom for a great deal of improvement in their methods. J hold the results of the cow-testing associations to be one of the finest examples »f that we have ever had in New Zealand."