DAIRYING IN CANTERBURY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20905, 12 July 1933, Page 14

DAIRYING IN CANTERBURY.

POLICY OF LINCOLN COLLEGE. BOARD NOT PREPARED TO ESTABLISH HERDS. The policy of the Canterbury Agricultural College at Lincoln on dairy management problems was outlined in a report submitted by a special committee to the Board of Governors of the college at the monthly meeting yesterday. The committee was set up after representations had been made to the board by the Canterbury Herd Testing Association, on the lines that the college and the association should co-operate in bringing about an improvement in dairying methods in Canterbury, mainly by the establishment of experimental herds. The committee's report did not favour the suegestion, but referred to the possibility of the college holding a short course for dairymen. The committee's report was as follows:--(I) That while the finances of the board are in their present crippled state, the incurring of expense for ,ho establishment of fresh herds, with consequential additions to the dairy buildings and milking plant, cannot be considered. <2) That the bulletins already published bv the college have very adequately dealt with such problems as those raised by the Canterbury Herd Testing Association, namely—intensive grazing, winter feeding, pasture management, and methods of feeding. (3) That the college staff has for many years rendered service to individual dairymen concerning their own specific problems, and is prepared to continue such service to the fullest extent of its power, but the general control of the quality of the milk and dairy produce produced m Canterbury appears to call for the establishment of a laboratory specially equipped for the purpose, controlled and financed in co-operation with such a body as the Dairy Control Board. (4) That the college is prepared to organise a short course during the winter months giving information or value to those engaged in the dairy industry providing an assurance is riven that a sufficient number of dairvmen will attend such a course. (5") That the offer of the board to arrange for a critical examination of the association's records has not yet been taken advantage of. j The report was received and adopted without discussion.