AGRICULTURE RESEARCH
Application Urged The present nerd was rather for the transfer of accumulated knowledge to the student m college and farmer in the field than to journals and papers which were stored away on shelves. Dr. I. D. Blair, reader in microbiology at Lincoln College, said in an address tc ;he Canterbury branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand last evening, in which he discussed agricultural research in Canterbury during the last 100 years. “ ’Do research or perish’ is nore than a catch cry o! some administrators." said Dr. Blair. “Published papers ire deemed a criterion of .'fficiency and ability. Library shelves, even locally, are groaning under the load of loumals filled with the slain □rain-children of departed, superannuated or redundant researchers. Certainly this accumulated knowledge is part of our intellectual and cultural heritage. “Without suggesting any curtailment in the long-term view, the need of the present is for a little less effort in science that is put away on the shelves, and somewhat more improvement in the transfer of accumulated knowledge to students in college and farmers in the field. . . The growing disarray of information presented by some scientists, with no personal concern in interpretation or utilisation, calls even more for the extension activity of general practitioners," he said.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29866, 5 July 1962, Page 16
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