AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19764, 15 April 1926, Page 9

AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.

DEPARTMENTAL EXPERIMENTS. PROGRESSIVE WORKS. (Pbb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 14. The renewal of pastures was a subject brought before the Board of Agriculture to-drv which Mr A. H. Uorkayne, director of the fields division, Department of Agriculture, related the result of a series of experimental plots designed to make a comparison of Imported or Dutch white clover and that grown In New Zealand. The result showed that Now Zealnnd-grcwn clovers were much superior to those grown from Imported seed, and the board asked that an article be prepared for the Journal of Agriculture giving a detailed account of the results, and that leaflets bo circulated to A. ..nd P. Associations and the Farmers’ Union The proposed draft of the Fertilisers Bill to replace the Act now In operation was considered in detail and approved with minor amendments. It was suggested that the proposals should later bo discussed with farmers’ organisations and with the fertiliser trade. The board decided to recommend that th,. Rabbit Nuisance Act be again consolidated and approved of Proposals for the amendment of certain provisions of the Act relating to the establishment and working of boards under part 131, which relates to the establishment of rabbit boards in reduced areas, were approved Departmental officers gave members of the board full information in connection with the present position as regards the treatment of coniagious mammitis. and the progress which had been made in connection wtih experiments directed at obtaining n more effective method of dealing with blackberry. The dehorning of cattle question was further considered, the board deciding to report to the Minister that the time had arrived when a Bill should be brought in to make it compulsory, except la the case of stud and pedigree cattle.