DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18532, 14 July 1922, Page 7

DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION.

PROGRESS IN THE MANANVATU DISTRICT. (Contribute^!). By all the reports available, the Dairy Farmers’ Union is making great headway. Mr A E. Fear, the Dominion organiser, who has been only about six weeks in the district, has already enlisted the active support of various gentlemen who are well known, as breeders of pedigree stock. The names of Messrs. S. R. Lancaster, A. Lancaster, R, Cobb, Lovelock,’a. C. Donald, M. F, Anderson, T. Sec-combe, and James Macfarlane speak for themselves. Eighteen branches have already been fdrmeid, and shortly a conference is to be held in Palmerston North to elect a provincial executive to carry on this movement. The policy of the Dairy Farmers’ Union which is of such vital importance to the dairyman and io the Dominion as a whole, seems to be the whole secret of the enthusiasm displayed. One wonders seeing that practically every branch of industry specialises and is organised accordingly, whilst dairy farmers have been ’lagging behind. The cardinal points which the or. ganisation emphasises are worthy of whole-hearted support. Such items as the necessity of increasing our dairy output by culling out "robber cows,” and replacing them by properly 'tested stock: the introjduction. of pejdigree bulks: a proper marketing scheme of butter on the Home market; the development of our bacon industry; the federation of all kindred industries into one large Producers Association, of which the Farmers’ Union would be the federated head, are the most salient planks in the platform