AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1909, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

SOME SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION. The New Zealand Agricultural Conferenco will be opened at the Chamber of Commerce, Wellington, on the 3rd August. The societies represented, and the delegates, will be as follow: — Ashburton, Messrs. T. Mawson and D. Wood ; Amnri, Col. Chaffey and Mr. W. O. Biditirds; .Auckland, Messrs. J. G. Rutherford arid E. Hall; Canterbury, Messrs. D. D. M'l-'arlaiie, A. Chamberlain, J. Stevenson, and O. H. Pemberton; Egmont, Mr. T. Winks; Franklin, Mr. J. Schlaepfei ; Feikling, Messrs. H. Burrell and ri. J. Booth; Hawkes Bay, Hon. J. D. Ormond and Mr. D. H. Potus ; Kaikoura, the president and vicepresident ; Masterton, Messrs. D. McGregor, jun., and W. Perry ; Marlborough, Messrs. 11. J. Bell and S. M. Neville ; Northern A. and P. Association (Eangiora), Messrs. K. M' ln tosh and J. W. Foster ; Nelson, Mr. H. D. Harkness ; North Otago, Hon. T. Y. Duncan ; Otago, Messrs. W. J. Charters and P. Pattullo; Opotiki, Mr. A. K. Ilayward ; Poverty Bay, Messrs. T. Holden, F. B. ■Barber, and C. A. Fenv/ick; Southland, Messrs. J. Kilkison and J. King; Taieri, Messrs. W. J. Charters and P. Pattullo; Timaru, Messrs. R. H. Rhodes and H. Elworthy ; Wairarapa and East Coast, Messrs. W. C. Buchanan, M.P., and H. R. Bunny ; Waikato A. and P. Association, Mr. John Knight ; Wanganui, Messrs. E. Campbell, J. Higgie, and T. Bamber; Waikato Farmers' Club. At the opening of the conference Mr. J. G. Wilson (chairman) will preside. The order paper gives promise of a series of very interesting discussions. In the first place, Auckland will move that a time limit bo fixed for all speakers. The small birds nuisance question is being brought up by North Otago and Marlborough. The former is moving that tho Government be requested to place on the estimates a sum of money aR a. bonus or prize for the discovery of an effective poison for small birds. Marlborough wants enquiries made as to the advisability of importing swallows and martens into New Zealand. Canterbury .wants to have experiments in root-growing conducted under the supervision of a Government director. Mr. T. W. Kirk will give an address on "Farm Seeds and their Impurities," nnd Canterbury will move in favour of enforcing the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act. Tho que&lion of "Daylight Saving" will also be introduced by Canterbury. The subject of the improvement of the breeding of horses will be brought forward by the delegate's from Canterbury, Taranaki, ■'Marlborough, Manawatu, and Otago. The Chief Veterinarian (Mr. C. J. Reakes) will lecture on "The Prevention of Stock Diseases." The formation of Cow-testing Associations will be urged by Auckland. , Education in rudimentary agriculturo will be urged by Canterbury. Several notices of motion have been given in connection with the improvement and general management of agricultural shows and for the federation of agricultural societies. There are also a good many notices of motion regarding railway matters. Feilding wants cheap rates for farmers visiting Government State farms; Canterbury is urging that all stock sent to shows for exhibition be carried at half rates ; and Southland wants feed, buckets, etc., for show stock carried free. The following notice of motion has been given by Hokianga : That the policy of withholding from native o\vne)s of land the opportunity of (1) either occupying them under the same conditions as Europeans; or (2) disposing of them, is detrimental to the settlement of tlje country, inasmuch as it fosters the spread of noxious weeds, delays the eradication of fruit pests and diseases, af■fords protection for tubcrculo?us and other diseased animals, and leaves an anurmoifc area of unproductive land.

A farmer who was prosecuted at Bjvlclutha, says the Otago Daily Times, for neglecting to cut thistles over a considerable area of his land said that lie had made every effort to get men to do this work, but had failed. Islr. Kenrick, S.M., remarked that it was an extraordinary thing that men could not bo got to do this kind of work after alt that hp.fl nppeared in tho newspapers cpacerniAsr the number of unemployed.

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