THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FARMER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13049, 14 December 1905, Page 5

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FARMER.

1 EXPERIMENTAL STATION IN CANTERBURY. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchuroh, Wednesday. At a meeting of the A. and P. Association to-day the Experimental Committee reported that the Government, instead of subsidising ,the £50 voted by the association for experimental work, has decided to start an experimental station at Papanui, and several plots were already well under way. This arrangement -had done away with the necessity of the association doing that class of work as was proposed on Sir John Hall's land at Middleton. The Government undertook the work provided that several Canterbury farmers would assist on their own properties, and many had agreed to do so already. The Government chemist had visited many plots, and was preparing several manures for distributing, and when the grower was ready for sowing an officer of the Department would assist in putting in seeds and manures. There would be fifteeu different manures in each plot.. Later on the Department would again visit; each plot, removing samples of roots for analysis, and would finally publish the recults.