VALUE OF STATE FARM

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1920, Page 7

VALUE OF STATE FARM

WHAT MOUMAHAKI CAN TEACH

INSTRUCTIVE DISPLAY AT WAVEIILEY SHOW. On Monday evening last (says the Wanganui Chroniclo) an important conference was held in Wanganui, with the object of endeavouring to establish an experimental farm in the district. Had the members who attended that conference neon the magnificent exhibition made at the Waverley show by the Moumahaki State Farm, it ia certain that 0110 and all would have been convinced of the value to the community of such a valuable educative factor. The display made at Waverley waß the largest which has yet been made by the State Farm, comprising in all some thirty varieties of potatoes, mangolds, swedes, turnips, carrots, and oilier root crops. Side by side with these were splendid specimens of forago plants, including kale, buda kale, and chou moellier, besides sheaves of Hnngarian and ' Jnpanoso millet, Sudan grass, etc. A wide variety of grasses, including lucerne, was included in the comprehensive display, as well as cereals. Paßtoralists and agriculturists alike were keenly interested in the exhibition, which was a very valuable dject lesson on what can be produfced on local soil by scientific methods of farming. The exhibit was excellently staged by Mr Freeman, gardon overseer, and Mr Lonsdale, jninr., who are to be highly complimented on the result. The Moumahaki State Farm also had on exhibition some fino types of Ryeland sheep, which are rapidly coming into favour in this country.