DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 9

DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION

COMMITTEE MEETING. Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, December 20. The executive of the Dairy Farmers’ Union met here to-day, Mr. H. Campbell presiding. . Exception was taken to the suggestion that in the event of the proposed amalgamation with the Farmers’ Union, Is. 10d.. of the 7s. fid. for each membership be piAl. to the local Farmers’ Union branch. ~ Mr.. R. McMurray, representing the Hamilton Vaccine Company, wrote stating that he, personally, regretted _ the union’s decision that unless the Hamilton Vaccine Company agreed to the Department of Agriculture carrying out the scientific portion of the demonstration, to test the vaccine, that the same must be abandoned. His company would not agree on any consideration to this. The company had not any confidence in the present officials of the Department. The scientific research had approached the Government asking that a properly qualified bacteriologist be secured to investigate the diseases of mammitis and abortion in dairy herds. This showed the Department had not such a man at the present time. He thought that if a test were carried out it should be, by aUiolutely capable authorities. The chairman‘said be resented the company using the union as an advertising agent. The farmers supported the Agricultural Department, that was at loggerheads with the company. He criticised the “Exporter,” saying that it did not publish the union’s discussion, nor the fact that the Department was against the company. He did not think that the statements that all cows should be inoculated should go unqualified. It was decided that the union would adhere to its former decision.: The Pohangina branch forwarded _ a remit to the effect that the executive should consider the advisability of testing Bovisan as a cure for vaginitis, the feeling being that it was a physical impossibility to carry out the treatment as directed. The Minister of Railways wrote refusing a request to take over the weighing of live pigs. Mr. Poupard moved that the union write the Department asking what Government checks were made at the abattoirs in the weighing of pigs.