Watching the Farmers' Interests.

We are about to establish experimental dairying schools, where tuition will be given free, and an officer is now on his way to Canada to obtain information concerning the conduct of such schools in that country. These will be maintained at State expense for the benefit of dairy farmers. The Government have established, still in connection with, the Agricultural Department, a biological division which deals with biological and horticultural matters. The staff consist of, among others, a canning expert (who is a skilled lecturer), bee experts, entomologists, pomologists, orchard inspectors, inspectors of imported fruits, and clerks. Time will not permit to tell you all the Government are doing for the fruit industry at Waerenga, Ruakuray Momahaki, Weraroa, and elsewhere. Government inspectors now visit various parts of the colony, giving instruction and demonstrating to fruit farmers, and in every way assisting them to the best results and to keep down and eradicate disease in fruit and fruit trees. In keeping with this socialistic policy, bee experts have recently been appointed to instruct bee-keepers, and to assist them to overcome difficulties and make the bee industry profitable and successful, and to the same end a State apiary was established a little over a year ago at Ruakina, which has been greatly beneficial as an object lesson to bee farmers.