GRASS FARMING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 209, 4 August 1937, Page 10

GRASS FARMING

CONFERENCE AT DUNEDIN. WIDE RANGE OF SUBJECTS. The seventh annual conference of the New Zealand Grassland Association is to be held next week at Dunedin. Previously the conference lias been held alternately at Palmerston North and Christchurch.

Tho conference brings together the leading research workers of the Dominion, ad in conjunction with tho opinions of prominent farmers the discussions are of very distinct benefit to farmers. This may be gleaned from a resume of the papers to be presented. The initial group is devoted to tussock grassland farming in the South Island and includes contributions by Messrs W. J. A. McGregor (Mount Linton) and C. S. Marshall (Tirnaru). Two papers on fertilisers follow by Mr J. M. Smith (Department of Agriculture, Dunedin) and by Mr A. W. Hudson (Massey Agricultural College) and Mr J. W. Woodcock (Department of Agriculture) and Mr J. E. Macassey will discuss research problems of the south. Mr S. Saxby (Department of Agriculture, Dunedin) and Mr W. Harris (Invercargill) are to present papers on ryegrass strains in Otago' and Southland. Pasture seed mixtures for districts of low rainfall and for those of high rainfall are to be dealt with by Mr A. H. Flay (Lincoln College) and Mr A. Stuart (Department of Agriculture, Invercargill.) An evening is given to papers on the seed trade by Messrs N. It. Eoy and E. 0. O. Hyde (Seed Testing Station, Palmerston North). On the second day land utilisation investigations in Hawke’s Bay are to be discussed in a series of papers by Mr R. P. Connell (Department of Agriculture), and Mr E. A. Madden (Plant Research Station), and Dr L. I. Grange (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research). Farm shelter is to be discussed by an officer of the State Forest Service. Other important papers are: —Irrigation in the South Island, by Mr W. Stafford (Department of Agriculture, Tirnaru) ; Pig Husbandry Potentialities in the South Island, by Mr M. J. Scott (Department of Agriculture, Wellington) ; Grazing Management and Root Development, by Mr W. A. Jacques (Massey College) ; the Stock Parasite Position in Relation to Grassland, by Mr V. G. Cole (Wallaceville Veterinary Laboratory), and Plialaris Tuberosa, by Mr I. I). Blair (Lincoln College) . A full evening is to be given to papers on the goitre problem by Dr Hercus and Mr H. D. Pairves (Otago University), and Mr C. V. Dayus (Department of Agriculture, Dunedin). The list of those to take part m the discussions on tho above papers includes the following:—Messrs F. W. Hilgendorf and J. W. Calder (Lincoln College), J. B. Waters (Dunedin), J. Christie (Balclutha), T. Rigg (Cawthron Institute), Dr Marsden (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research), C. S. M. Hopkirk (Veterinary Laboratory, Wallaceville), and F. R„ Callaghan (Plant Research Bureau, Wellington).