THE COUNTRY.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16417, 10 January 1919, Page 3

THE COUNTRY.

NEWS AND NOTES. dairy products wanted. f ? il^ vil, s statement is credited to ; r , . ; rocman, Assistant Secretary ■f ,-igncii.ture. United Stares:—"The ?3 V i ; Crds of th,! ° ;d World are de1> a'd to an appalling degree. There is not a country in Europe ivhere the peopc have enough dairy products, and this proccsi depletion is going on e\eiy day and every week, and every month, and will continue to go on so .< ng as tins horrible war lasts. "When ni J s n ' s ' lo "J ive trill find the -world f " uei pand for daiiT nroduets twoo'r ten-fold greater than the ~:['P * ' -Europe v.'il! ccmc to America y.!in cuistretched hands —every country m iurope—and sav to us: '\S"e must ave in ilk : give us canned inilk ; give us ,U •' £' ve us butter, give us mof s *' Us dairy cattle, give us aniis to build up our dairy herds again.' Vi!!!f- SS ! ? or '. ca has stimulated the prot caion of dairy products, and increase;! our suppiv of dairy animals far beyond (Uiytbing in the past, we shall be utterly unable to supply this demand. We will SH PP'y , as niueh as we can, because they f. 1 * go'ng to be willing to pay practically any reasonable price for our live stock ; and xrc will supply .so much of it tiuit our cv .-ri resources will bo exhausted. '{'hen the United States will do without sufficient dairy product^."' grassing problems. The importance of grassland to Xew Zealand agriculture and to the country j as a whole has full recognition by both farmers and students of ayro.slology, reniarks Dr. A. H. Coeka.vno in the •Journal of Agriculture." Such being t.te case, ono is naturally astonished at I t.ie dearth of literature both on the seiencc and practice of our grassland, production and management. Until i recently all text-books on the subject were cf foreign origin, and in many par.lculars were quite ull suited for New Zealand requirements. This i s a peculiar position 131 a country where grassland! is all-important. Dr. Cockayne sets out tho chief Rrass" problems as follows — rhe profitable increase in production 0 niu 0 usso . e h grasslands. "he substitution of long-rotation for short-rotation grassland on light- arablelands. The control of succession 011 the sur-iaee-sown grasslands. The increasing of permanent clovers and permanent, pasture. lhe profitable grassing of the soils of central volcanic plateau. The profitable grassing of gum-land heaths. The permanent grassing of inferior swamp and peat lands. The economic position of paspalum. and its proper management-.