N.Z. FARMERS’ UNION.
CONFERENCE AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN. Tuesday. The Minister nf Agriculture opened the Farmers’ Union Gonfcrenec ibis morning. Hon. 0. .1. Maw-ken stressed the need of greater productivity, warning the farmers that. New Zealand’s statue prices were deereasing. II behoved Hie farmers lo exercise prudence, not basing their calculations on the past year’s prices. The farmers must go in for more fertilisers. Systematic fertilisation would secure as good, perhaps botl<T, reiurns Ilian in Ihc pa s I. The Minister also emphasised Hie imporlance of an experiment Ihc department was making through Ihe home science faculty at Dingo l niversily In give insiruelion in home economics in Ihc rural dislrids. From observation llirough New Zealand he was sure more nl I enl ion should he paid In llw needs of women and homes in the miry. lie rernmmem|e,| also more altculion lo mai'Ueliug and buying and Ihc adaplalimi of Danish cooperative methods.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16812, 2 June 1926, Page 11
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152N.Z. FARMERS’ UNION. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16812, 2 June 1926, Page 11
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