PERUVIAN AGRICULTURE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14441, 6 February 1909, Page 10

PERUVIAN AGRICULTURE.

A TOL'R OF INQUIRY

(Pf.k United I'iiess Association.) WELLINGTON, February 5.

Senor • Gerardo Klinge, of the* Department of JJovclopniL-tu.j Lima, Peru, South America, arrived in New Zealand by the Jlokoia to-day to study the agricultural, pastoral, and dairy conditions of New Zealand on behalf ."Jt the Peruvian Government. It is Senor Klingc's intention to visit the Australian .States on a similar mis-simi later on. In an interview with a Post reporter to-day, Senor Klinge stated that he had already visited Canada, United States of America, and the various .South American Republics iu scarcli of knowledge. In its one million sijiiarfl miles of territory, he said, Peru embraced practically nfl climatic conditions, uud could raise almost every class of product. Tropicai products couid be raited in the east towards the Amazon, while th-.e colder eimiatvs of the mountains and the semi-tropical regions near the coast produced sugar, cotton, and rubber. Shock-raising up to the present has not been well developed owing to lack of markets, but it was expected that when the Panama Canal was opened, and the European markets were brought nearer, the development of trade would receive in ire attention. The principal dairying coimtry was situated on the highlands of the Ante, while sheep-raising and wool production wa.s also largely carried on in the same territory. At present the onlv breed of sheep cultivated was the old Spanish merino, but the people engaged in this branch of industrial pursuit were now importing stud sheep from Patagonia, which sheep, he. mentioned, originally came from Australia. Serior Klinge expects lo be in New Zealand about "two mouths, or longer if liwessary. The Senor's explorations in tho Argentine, greatly impressed him. particularly the possibilities of Ihe country and the wonderful strides that Iwd tacn made in the development, of the fiiock-raising industry. Dairviug was comparatively spcakine almost in its infancy, but it was rapidly advancing, and promised w.?!!,:or the future. It was Senor Mmge's intention lo make a fhoroiHi investigation of fanning methods as th'ev are carried on in this country, both privately and by the State, 'He intends visiting (he various State farms earned on by (he Government, and will also make It his business t 0 inspect some of the leading farms in the Dominion.