RELIGION IN FARMING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6919, 27 May 1929, Page 10

RELIGION IN FARMING

The Prejudices of India PRODUCING BETTER CATTLE How real are tlie harriers Dial impede progress in farming methods in Julia was toJd l.y .Mr J\ Is. Tray nor, of ihe imperial entile breeding farm, Karnul. runjab, who arrived at Auckland I• y tin; Maungnnui from Sydney recently, to spend a. year's furlough in the Dominion, which lie is visiting for the iirs'L time.

The Imperial government started a dairying institute in the i’unjijb in 1523, with a view to improving the breed of cattle and getting the stud bull into the country, said Mr Traynor. The idea, was to provide a dual purpose animal—dual purpose in it sense not applicable to New Zealand, where, after serving its day as a dairy cow, a beast was fattened with a view to killing. In India the natives would not kill any animal of the ox type, ti" matter how long it had outlived ils usefulness. The Government officials had no desire to licit, the religious sentiment of the people of India, but an attempt was being made to induce the natives not to breed from the useless typo of animal. On the callle-brecdiiig farm at Kama] two breeds, the ilissar and the Tharpakar, were being utilised with a view to improving the strain and producing a dual purpose animal for milk and for work.

The result, said Air Traynor, might be that a. type would bo produced which might be slightly inferior to the present milking strain or the present draught animal, but the dual purpose would be served by tlic uite type of animal, and the ultimate result would be a substantial improvement ou the present position. On the farm some native boys were being trained with a view to becoming instructors, thus seconding the efforts of the Imperial government officials among their own people. Although he has spent 2-i years in India, Mr Traynor is convinced that the country is not one well suited to European wants, and he proposes to leave his wife au.l children in New Zealand with a view lo reliving here himself when his term of service expires within a few years. New Zealand was regarded as an eminently desirable place to which to retire, lie said, Auckland being particularly recommended to those who had had long residence in India. While ou furlough here, Air Traynor proposes to sec as much of the country as possible with a view to studying the agricultural and pastoral methods.