PASTURE GRAZING

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1930, Page 3

PASTURE GRAZING

■ cambridgi; discoveries. $4;,/ /•i-.rfV’ >; . : RESULTS FROM NEW METHODS .1 . #\T ; ' . AUCKLAND, January 21. ‘Tiripprtant principles in regard to pasture grazing disclosed by research I t Cambridge University were men.Moned by’ Mr F. Milner,’ C.Ri.G., RecV of Waitaki Boys’ High School, who farrived' kt Auckland by the Ulimaroa. ’ Dr.J'Wbodman’s discovery that grass yielded'its rilaximum nutritional value botp iiV protein and. mineral content while in a young and tender stage wuatdestined to revolutionise grazing -methods, Mr Milner said. Already, farmers in,,the, south .of Scotland, who’ had- been ’ quick to’ utilise this method by adopting a system of tri-weekly rotational close growing is subdivided paddocks, had increased their .stockcarrying capacity twofold and threefoiai. . r

“Pje newly-appointed Governor-Gen-the Dominion; Lord Bledisloe, is cprman Jpf'tiie Imperial Grasslands Association,.’4 Mr added. “He Vis, notably impreisSff by the ; possibili-1 ties r'oL the Cambridge discoveres. At iM-anchester he said that farmers who ■bad, adopted the new method of pasture -grazing’ were carrying up to 7J sheep an': acre. It is recommended that grass should never be allowed to lexcded -4in. pin .;height. It is at this stage that its. full nutrition value for | milk and meat is accessible to the -animal.- In the longer stage, and as hay, ..[.so much fibrous cellulose surrounds the cells that lignification deLars the animal from assimilating the cell; contents. “The Imperial Chemical Company is so impressed with the discovery that it is. working out the commer-cial-possibilities by placing dehydrated pressed,’,fyriquejtes of young grass , on the,"market. I was shown briquettes Which had been stored for ffhree years which,; on immersion in water, regained the colour and appetising Pdour of freshly-cut young- grass. Nctdless to say, stock devour these liiquettes with avidity.”