NEW ZEALAND SHEEPBREEDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND SHEEPBREEDERS

Conference at Palmerston north. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., June 2. The seventh annual conference of New Zealand sheepbreeders has opened at Massey College, Palmerston North, and a large attendance of farmers from both islands was warmly welcomed by Professor G. S. Peren, principal of the college, who said it was most encouraging to the council to see the manner in .which the conferences had been supported from year to year. The conference was officially opened by Mr C. E. Vile, vice-president of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, who congratulated Professor Peren and his committee who inaugurated the conferences, and said that from the experimental plots at Massey College the future farmers of the Dominion would gain valuable knowledge of the industry. The college was carrying on a great work and a great benefit would be derived from holding the conference in such an institution.

Opening day addresses were given by Mr E. E. Elphick, M.R.C.V.S., Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North, on some Of the more common ailments of the farm horse; Mr L. Feierabend, Dannevirke, on actions of different manures on fodder crops; Mr J. Tod, Otane, on methods of ploughing and cultivation; Mr R. E. R. Grimmett, chief agricultural chemist, Department of Agriculture, Wellington, on licks and their uses; Mr K. S. Glendinning, Palmerston North, on farm accounts and the compilation of returns for taxation; Mr J. Livingstone, on hill country management in Eastern Hawke’s Bay; and Mr W. Stewart, Valuer-General, Wellington, on the principles of land valuation. At the session today Mr Elphick gave another address on the examination of the horse as to soundness; Mr W. M. Webster, M.R.C.V.S., Massey Agricultural College, on the management of pregnant ewes; Mr A. W. Hudson, Massey Agriculture College, on an experiment on intensive rotational grazing with sheep; Mr A. C. Morton, Massey Agricultural College, on plans fof' woolsheds and yards; Mr Webster, on assistance to ewes at lambing with special reference’to malpresentations; Mr T. A. Duncan, chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, on the present policy of the Meat Board in respect to cattle for chilling, and some of his personal experiences of the trade; Mr T. E. Rodda, manager of the Ruakura Farm Training College, on experiments at the Ruakura State farm on the production of chillers.

Visitors to the conference also inspected the Massey College stud flocks and the grass and clover plots of the Grasslands Division, Plant Research Bureau. The conference will conclude tomorrow.