ASHLEY DENE FIELD DAY PROGRAMME

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32116, 11 October 1969, Page 10

ASHLEY DENE FIELD DAY PROGRAMME

An intensive programme has been arranged for the annual field day at Ashley Dene next Thursday.

Four topics will be featured during the morning programme, beginning at 10 o’clock. Professor J. D. Stewart will report on the grazing trials over the past year. He will be followed by Messrs P. Gregg and R. Stephen, of the Department of Agriculture research section, who will discuss recent fertiliser trials on light land. The trials have been concerned largely with the growing of lucerne. Mr E. Vartha, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, will then discuss the overdrilling of greenfeed.

New verities of subterranean clover and creeping lucerne will be discussed by Dr J. G. White and Mr W. R. Scott of the Lincoln College plant science department.

In the afternoon Professors Stewart and I. E. Coop will review the drought, and its consequences, with special reference to farming on Canterbury light land.

The final programme will be held near the farm’s new cattle yards. Mr A. Nicol will report on his recent work with beef cattle. This concerned feeding trials with crushed barley, barley straw and urea.

Later, Mr D. Reynolds, of the Department of Agriculture, will discuss mechanisation of grain feeding, and problems in the storage of grain. Some equipment will be displayed.

The afternoon's programme will conclude with a discussion by Mr G. Thomson, of the college’s veterinary science department, on the use of copper and selenium in animal health.