FATHER OF 3000

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 8

FATHER OF 3000

\VHEN farmers, ‘breeders and scientists forgather at the Ruakura Farmers’ Conference to be held at Hamilton between May 13 and 16, the aristocratic Jersey whose photograph appears above is likely to be a centre of interest. He is Jersey Glen Handsome Boy, and he has, by the artificial breeding methods being tested at Ruakura, sired approximately

3000 calves. The artificial breeding of livestock-a development of profound importance tq a hungry world ~-has been studied intensively at Ruakura, and an address on the production records obtained in ten Waikato herds after ten years of artificial breeding will be given on May 16 by John Hancock. The conference will, as usual, have special sessions for sheep farmers and dairy farmers, a general session,

and a field day. It is, of course, held under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture, and the chairman will be Dr. C. P. McMeekan, Superintendent of the Ruakura Animal Research Station. Stations 1YA, 1YZ, 1XH and 1XN will present a conference report from 8.0 to 8.15 each evening, from Tuesday to Thursday, and on Friday, May 16, with the exception of 1XH, which will broadcast it from 8.30 to 845 p.m. A general summary will be heard on the National Link at 12.33 p.m. on Thursday, May 15, in "News for Farmers." Jack Aylesbury will be the commentator. John Gerring will also talk on the conference in his session, Ruakura Report, from 1XH,, at 12.33 p.m. on May 14.