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to take up winter-dairying for the manufacture of butter 

 and the raising of calves and pigs during that season. At 

 the Central Experimental Farm experiments have been 

 carried out in the feeding of steers for beef ; the economical 

 feeding of milch cows ; the fattening of pigs ; the growth of 

 fodder crops ; and the use of ensilage. The results of all 

 these experiments and investigations are widely circulated 

 amongst farmers throughout the Dominion. 



The Department of Agriculture has recently given atten- 

 tion to the improvement of the systems of storage and 

 transport of agricultural produce intended for export, 

 and arrangements have been made for the establish- 

 ment of an effective cold-storage-service at the principal 

 exporting centres, and for the provision of refrigerating 

 chambers on seventeen steamships. 



