Agriculture.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12926, 3 August 1905, Page 2

Agriculture.

EXPEBIM3ESNTS OF INTBHESTv, TC » Per Press Association.- - . • -, -r- • < Ghristchurch,. . Aug. 2.' '" Mr Lowrie, Director of ; Lincoln. Col .lego,, at' a Board o VGovernors';^>-day|^f|:rod to th© qxie £stion of conducting experiments ,m th< finterests of f £-nters at Hh|> Cpllege tWith ' r^j(^|jnjo^a^&^ $'he£sai& |it was?cfij^cult to work the Coll&ge tc |the best" advamtdge.' 1 What -theyfwan *ted was a wealthy man to leav£ th fCollege a s'uin sufficient 1 to taring ii leiOOO per ann'utn: Ther6'\vas ; a\,goo< Meal 'of discontent" amongst fai-meti Fbceause 4 the'^ "College did -not do*; a»: fexperimen^al'jWork. * , I No action A Was in" 'the in,atter | The 'sub-committee ( of x^iQ, recejtt Ag |riculturai Conferenpe, .reporting' on ek work, states tha-j> the^Min for Agriculture promised to? giv fell assistamce from the officers of tfc< |)epartment, \ and. !?>' before bis^ coj leagues the question of subsidising anij ihibney spccially~devoted l^y agri,ejultu |rai and pastoral societies for thtv putpose of carrying but practical expen tuen'ts hy farmers. The hub-committ© Recommended that Metropolitan Soci£ lies should obtain co-operation of dfs trief'sdeieties, and" arrange 1 t'ire^experi nien'ts' to ~be carried but, anc lubmit them with an estimate of th< probable cost to tho Department o Agriculture. . ■