Ruakura Conference Reports
"HE Ruakura Farmers’ Conference next week will be covered by reports (including excerpts from addresses) from all YA and YZ stations at 7.0 p.m. from Tuesday, June 15, to Friday, June 18, inclusive. Topics for the first day include fat lamb farming, meat production, beef cattle breeding in North America, early weaning of hill country hoggets, worms in sheep, and pasture improvement on the Te Awa Hills. Wednesday will be a field day, with an address in the evening by E. J. Fawcett, Director-General of Agriculture, on the future of agriculture in New Zealand. On the third day topics will imclude molybdenum in animal health, lime on grassland, weed control, beef production from dairy stock, grass staggers, the milk producing value of summer feeds, and summer dairy production in the Auckland Province. Addresses on the last day will be on bloat, the rearing of dairy stock, the national hybrid pig, pedigree breeding, dairy farming as a business, and the Ruakura milking machine. A report on the Massey College Sheepfarmers’ meeting, also to be held next week, will be heard in the YA-Y2Z News for Farmers at 12.33. p.m. on Thursday, and excerpts from addresses will be broadcast later in Farm Sessions.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 15
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204Ruakura Conference Reports New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 15
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