FARMERS' UNION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1077, 25 July 1924, Page 5

FARMERS' UNION.

DAIRY SCHOOL URGED.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 25. At the Dominion Conference of the Farmers’ Union to-day an address on the activities of the dairy division of the Department of Agriculture was delivered by Mr W. M. Singleton, director of the division.

It was agreed that the Government be urged to establish a dairy school and laboratory with the view- to the carrying on of research work and the tuition of dairy factory managers and assistants in connection therewith. It was resolved that the Government, be urged to have brought into force tho regulations which have been drafted and approved under the Dairy Industry Amendment with the view to arriving at a uniform method of reading the Babcock lest.

It was decided that the Government be requested to set aside a sum with the view to experimenting on the .best and most effective means of eradicating gorse, and to offer and widely advertise a substantial reward for the discovery of some specific which can be applied at a reasonable cost whereby tho spread of these and other noxious weeds may bo combated and the growths already existing destroyed.