THE AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 126, 13 May 1911, Page 7

THE AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE.

CANTERBU RY REMITS. The following remits to the New Zealand Agricultural Conference were recommended to the General Committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association at its meeting on Wednesday at Christchurch by a committee which set up to consider the matter, and on the motion of the Chairman of the Special Committee (Mr. D. I). Macfarlane) they were adopted: — “I. That the Government be asked to conduct experiments with the view of finding fodder plants suitable to take the place of turnips. "2. That the Government be asked to establish a plant-breeding and experimental farm in the South Islam.!, and the Conference trusts that the Minister for Agriculture will soon fulfil his piomise to secure the services of a trained man to take, charge of plant-breeding and experimental work.

“3. That seed merchants should be compelled to guarantee all seeds sold for purity and germination, and the (lorrnnnent be empowered to impound at port of entry all imported seed containing any seeds of noxious weeds. "4. That the system of veterinary examination and registering of stallions at present in use in Victoria lie adopted in New Zealand. ”5. That the placed animals in the breeding classes of draught horses, should be passed as free from, hereditary unsoundness, by a veterinary surgeon before the prizes are allotted. "6. That the Conference take into consideration the annoyance to farmers and the injury to their stock by irresponsible persons shooting over their lands on Sundays. a practice which is greatly on the increase, and that Parliament be urged to pass an Act putting a stop to the pernicious practice.”