HON. T. MACKENZIE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9544, 22 June 1911, Page 8

HON. T. MACKENZIE.

ADDRESS AT THE DAIRY CONEERENCE.. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister of Agriculture, gave a short, address before a large gathering of farmers at the Showground Lecture Hall yesterday. He alluded to the difficulty of getting fanners to keen-'books; and added that it was also "a difficult matter even to get from the State: farm all the returns desirable. ■ He Referred;to the good work done in Denmark:by. intense cultivation and .seed/h feeding/. This was one of the factors of tho farmer and it,-..was- absolutely,; essential that:he' should the best possible seeds/;;:but 'tliai'Jie;; should see that /thcy. : properly cultivated. It : was his^hope,^to;:s<^ ; : placed upon the ; Statute:Bo'»k ; fh'if year. a "Seeds Purity Bill."wllyetv: thirty years ago he of sending two tons of\clieek;'io:.&uth :' Africa, and what.-was talveiiJOiitoMlie case in a sound condition. : realisiecl. g<>pcl.: prices. He also made;an^x])i;rmieift : in regard to butter :..witlp : a; : .■ view ■to', discovering if it could months' voyage' to the.()ld^in^fry; i Tlioso in charge had put.2olbs,'of'.i>;utk'i' in a 701b keg and. Jiad rolled i'i't.in. suit and calico, hence the.hesf/jesults: .were not attained...'' Contiiiuin*gy- --%e. said the Department .was■;deeply"".Jir-" dobted for the. help received;, from dairy people in regard to cow ''testing. and the pasteurisation of milk. hid fair to establish one of tbemost, .important industries of the Dominion,; in.ii.niely, that of pig raising. With regard to. operations at Home, when the Government expert was there the :iMinister. said this man and the Na-. tio.iml. Dairy Association's ropree.enta■;tive:'.woiild as commercial; naturc,} ; wlnl.ej;ithe:.ffafnicfs were, more-'of':a.;scientific j'liiiiute : ; He : Vas «invinccd:;:tlic;:agents not giyin'ga. : ;ira|«r ; ;Tein:esentatiohi::tb■ our. produce^iii^ ; lj6ifdnn^V;Qvef''.''arid _'6 yoiv '■: ' : b2j'ai'ij n : ' sou n'd; ,m eat '■■l.ta ve';ii \yni : ds : ; .ifi 'ade.agains't "ifewliiclr-deTia^ i'th'c"profits'vhe; iw'as justly entitled to. ;ahd '^■■&\ '. ':