INTEREST TO FARMERS.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17924, 27 June 1930, Page 5

INTEREST TO FARMERS.

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Several Remits Passed.

ERADICATION OF GORSE. ADDRESS ON RURAL CREDITS. .'/ ■ '.- .' .^" , (By Telegraph.—Press,,Association.) WELLINGTON,'June 27., The ! annual : conference of the Royal Agricultural Society is now < being -he1d,.,.. A remit that the protection of deer should be N withdrawn, was amended to provide, instead tjhat property not be eh-' tered; upon,,rWithqU]t, the permission '! of'thVopcupier, nor contiguous areas without the "'controlling authority haying given adjoining; occupiers reasonable". warning. ,' , ]

The mover of this was Mr Barton, ..of ..pkasterton, who^warned the: corfference f against control being takeh from '■■■: Acclimatisation. Societies, anjd impressed on r all the '.danger,,.and 'of' indiscriminate and general shooting. • '*. ,'■ Ac'discussion, was raised on the country of origin, of the prize' rib;.hpn,..and it was decided, that all rib;hon be obtained from Britain. '■ { Information as to' the possibilities of eradicatbg gorse by/spraying with sodum : chlorate \ was. given by Mr A. H; Cockaynej iri response to a request.'' He', was of the gorse would < have 'first, to be cut down and- the •■ y- young : growth treated before '.spraying worfld' ; .he a. : success. '''.,,' :V ..',J-^,'.••• :. iAh address on rural credits was given by Mr 5ne11,... assistant-com). missioner, ) of the Rural ..Credits Board. He stated that the' Assot ciations' had on e' good' work,'; and. others were being formed..!. It,was hoped that there would be an ever-j increasing flow of capital, to,, the. farmer- If the scheme, rJifad soundly managed, it.would■ not long; before ! the, 'investor,woul's 'look upon rural securities'as gilt-edged. ]