HIGH STANDARD OF STUD HERDS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 237, 21 June 1926, Page 10

HIGH STANDARD OF STUD HERDS

‘‘You are the invincible architects of the national greatness. Your National Dairy Show evidences with eloquent variation the harmonious triumph of man and Nature, because if the creation and technical perfection of the dairy industry is human, the cow is the product of the soil.” In these terms, Mr. H. Bidone, ConsulGeneral for the Argentine, addressed the West Coast and Manawatu A. and P. Association, at the smoke concert at Palmerston North on Friday evening.

"People most advanced in culture are those who march at the head of dairy production,” proceeded Mr. Bidone. “Exploitation of dairy products influences the improvement of the land, refinement of the pastures, advances in buildings and roads, and the well-being of the population. Do not forget that the selection of dairy cattle is the source of perfection; that time and the hour are not bound together by a rope, and if there is no market there is no farmer. The cattle breeders of New Zealand and the Argentine must know that the political economy of the world follows the position of fiscal protection of the proper productive and manufacturing industries, approving tariffs almost prohibitive. Let us remember the United States of America, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Japan, etc. Personally I do not believe that a high Customs duty is advantageous to any country, because there are economic, psychological, climatic and agricultural factors which favour one country more than another, and by how much the importation of those primary products is prohibited, by so much is the cost of living raised. There are industries, especially secondary, in all countries which are like those slothful sons who desire to pass their whole life as calves clinging to the milking cow. few da vs ago I said in Hamilton that ‘what was required for the stabilising of the meat and dairy produce trade was the co-ordination ct commercial and industrial methods between the producers of both countries and the consumers in England. Every effort should be made to lessen the cost of production. The market of England was the goal where all the nations which produced food converged as in a race of nations, and the nation which was best organised technically, and which was nearest to England, would win the race. What people bought were the best and the lowest-priced products. "I congratulate the breeders of New Zealand m having arried off six pnzes in the recent International Dairy Exhibition held in Buenos Ayres and in February last at an auction sale held in Buenos Ayres the Manawatu champion Lincoln ram, bred by Mr. Anderson was sold for 5006 dollars, equivalent to 4390, which was the top price of thq year. The reserve champion Lincoln ram at tho Royal Show at Christchurch was sold for 4-000 dollars, equivalent to 4310. These products of the herds and flocks cf New Zealand are symbols and laurels of the high standard of- the stud herds of the Dominion Permit me to say a word of esteem for Messrs. Wright. Stephenson and Co., of New Zealand, and Gibson Bros, and H. P. Hughes, of Buenos Ayres, who selected here and presented iii Buenos Ayres these magnificent products of New Zealand’s pastoral richn<"The -Aimmercial relations between New Zealand and the Argentine ■ are to-day verv cordial,” declared Mr. nidone. "Last vear New Zealand exported to the Argentine 19 cows and 406 sheep. Argentine will be the biggest market for pedigree stock of New Zealand so long as the Dominion continues to export the very best'animals. He suggested an interchange of judges in the live stock exhibitions held in New Zei’n-d mid biitf i>« Ayres. I hat. he pointed out, could the, more easily lie facilitated now that a line of steamers between Argentine and Auckland had been established.

RAW MATERIALS PRICES. (Rec. June 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 19. Cotton.—The Liverpool for American middling upland cotton. July delivery, is 9.03 d. per lb. Rubber.—Fine hmrd para. 19Jd. per lb : plantation first latex crepe 21d.; smokea ribbed sheet, 21d. Jute.—May-June shipment £4O 15s. per ton; new crop, July-August. £34 lus. New Zealand Hemp.—June-July shipment, £36 per ton. x Copra.—June-July shipment. £25 12s. sd. P< Linsee’d oil. £34 ss. per ton. equal to 2s. 9d. per gallon. Turpentine, 70s. 6d. per cwt, equal to ss. 4d. per gallon.