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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1932, Page 4

Associated with an appreciation of •Lord Biodislop’s practical interest in agriculture in this country, published in Nature, an autlioritative British science journal, is a conipliiuent to the \ew Zealand farmer. “In no par! of the Kmpiro.” says the writer, •■is there a higher standard of intelligence and ability among agrieultmi Is. pnstoraljsts and fruit-growers. Nowhere u. a worker in agricultural science better received than in New Zealand.” While it is encouraging to receive finiii a journal of t'-is standing • neb a gene mis acknowledgin'nt of our effort,s to out tlm primary in diislrics on a siienti.ie basis, and bridge the gap between the funnel and the laboratory, it r.,,:y be wull I ' east a modest eye upon ourselves, It rei| 11 i red t l '." persistent advocacy of sueli e en of visum as th ■ late .or \j ;e;,ev, th • late Sir dames Wilson, and the Ini Sir Walter Buchanan to awaken th fanning community and the eounlrv o th.' value ol ><• i«• 11 1 1 rr<• research to llie nrilt’arv industries Thinks to men Ijkv those there is „ow a new at til tile to the research worker But there still remains much to he done This country lends itself

admirably to intensive fanning rn small acreages, and there can be no doubt that it is upon this system of agriculture that the future prosperity of the primary industries will largely depend. But it must be based on scion talk: method. “Even the most impoverished countries of the world,” says Nature, “have found public expenditure upon scientific research and the scientific guidance of their farming population to be a sound and remunerative in vestment..” Thus far we have merely broken the crust. There is still much to be done.