GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7139, 28 May 1910, Page 16

GLEANINGS

Mr James'*6. Wilson, of Bulls, has been elected president of the Wellington executive of 'tho Farmers’ Union for the ninth year in succession. Tho Paraparnumn branch of tho Farmers’ Union has established. a record. There are Unity members, and ' every ono of them is fully paid up. Mr Ross, tho well-known cordago manufacturer of Foxton, expects to have his new factory and plant in running order within six weeks’ time. Sir B. C. Aston, chemist to the Department of Agriculture, left Wellington on Thursday for Tauranga, in connection with the experiments to bo conducted into tho oauso of “bush” sickness. A pleasing feature of this year’s Wellington conference of tho Farmers* Union was tho number of young farmers who wore present as delegates. The delegates generally were of a distinctly good stamp. As a result of the work of tho North Island co-operative experiment supervisor- of tho Donartment of Agriculture, Mr Baylis, several Pnngitikoi farmers have found that lucerne can be gi;owu on their farms, and arc naturally delighted with the success of the experiment. The Director of the Live Stock Division, Mr 0. J. Keakes, visited tho factory of the Kairanga Co-operative Dairy Company on Thursday, m order to inspect the experiment there being conducted by the department in connection with the pasteurisation of skimmilk.

A speaker at tho Farmers’ Union Conference thought tho attention of tho Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals should bo directed to the way in which tho Bailway Department kept sheep and lambs for hours in trucks at sidings. In one case at Levin, he said, a truck of lambs was left standing for seventeen hours.