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names, for 1 didnot want the paper to be considered anattack upon the department. 
Mr. Mahon rather sought to discredit my paper by calling it a copy of a report 
of the select committee on the Bill, and stating that I had no knowledge of the 
requirements of the dairying industry. Many practical dairymen, who have 
objected to the stringencies of its provisions, have, however, spoken to me on 
the subject of this Bill, and that was the main reason I brought it up at this 
conference, for I do not dispute for a moment that the object of the Bill—the 
preservation of the public health—is a good one. Mr. Mahon said I advocated 
the education of farmers, but what I said in my paper was that the Bill 
relied on direct compulsion rather than on education, and TI also 
wished to show that the farmers’ children should be educated. We 
want to catch them young, to teach them dairying during their primary 
education, for we should not merely want to educate managers. As 
for tuberculosis, my main contention was that the Government have been yery 
lax in connection with this matter hitherto, and I do not think it would be just 
to hurriedly start stamping it out without making provision for compensation. 
It is hard to say to what extent tuberculosis prevails in Queensland, but I have 
heard it put down at 20 per cent., and when we consider the immense number 
of cattle we have in Queensland—about 6,000,000—it can easily be understood 
what an immense undertaking it would be to stamp out this disease at once 
from our herds. I hold the work should be proceeded with cautiously. It is 
all very well to say inspectors would not abuse their powers, but-we know that 
they do. When the Diseases in Stock Act was hurriedly passed, Mr. Hardaere 
supported it because he thought it would do a good deal of good, but after 
secing what the effect of the Act really was, that gentleman publicly stated the 
regulations for the stoppage of the ticks had done more damage to the pastoral 
industry than the ticks would have done. When managing Glen Prairie 
Station, I tried to get some red polled bulls from the south, to try on short- 
horns, thinking that the cross might, perhaps, be less liable to ticks than the 
shorthorns, but, thanks to the many difficulties put in the way by the tick and 
quarantine regulations, the experiment had to fall through. Mr. Mahon said 
6 inspectors would be sufficient to euforce the Act, if passed. But my objec- 
tion to the inspectors is not that they would be dishonest, but, simply, such 
extensive duties would be imposed upon them, and such varied knowledge would 
be demanded from them, that it would be impossible to get suitable men. Mr. 
Mahon himself admitted that he never met a man who was properly qualified to 
fill all the duties of an inspector under the Dairy Bill. 
Mr. Rogers concluded his remarks by moving that his paper on “ Pro- 
Resets ane Legislation” be referred to the Resolutions Committee.— 
arried. 
Mr. G. Park (Loganholme): It is my experience that you can rear calves 
on separated milk better than on anything else, and I do not think I haye lost 
2 calves during the last 10 years when I have been feeding them on it. I 
have seen no scour in them, and they get nothing but the separated milk. 
Mr. Wrir1amson (Waterford): Mr. Tooth stated that butter factories 
objected to dairymen doing their own separating, but in our district nearly 
every farmer has a machine of his own, and there have not been three 
creameries established within my neighbourhood. ‘The farmers found there was 
too much time lost in running to the creamery, reckoning it often as half a day, 
and the consequence was, they went in for their own separators, and now send 
their cream direct to the butter factory. This is found to be more profitable as 
well as more convenient, for while, at present, they can separate their milk at 
their own leisure, under the old system they are forced to go in all weathers to 
the creamery, and when there, perhaps, waste time waiting for their turn. 
Personally, I do not send my cream to the factory, but manufacture and sell my 
own butter. JI add nothing to the separated milk when feeding it to the calves, 
and I feel sure that anyone who tries it will find it a success. The chief factor 
in success in feeding calves is to feed regularly to time, and give the same — 
quantity each time. Two gentlemen stated they believed in taking the calf 
