MASSEY COLLEGE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 March 1929, Page 4

MASSEY COLLEGE.

IMPORTANT INVESTIGATIONS IN PROGRESS. (By Telegrapli —Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., March 20. Brief mention of -several important investigations be.ing mad© by the Massey Agricultural College staff were made at to-day’s meeting of the col-i lege council. The principal, Professor Peren, reported on the progress being made in regard to wool research, stating that Dr. Dry (zoologist), Air Scrivener (soil chemist) and himself visited 35 stud Romney flocks in the North Island and secured a large amount of data and material, including 200 ewes, which would be used for special matings in connection with wool research. In respect of flax, Dr. Yeates had spent- the summer scouring the flax swamps of -both islands for promising strains and had -brought back with him an immense amount of useful material and plants which had been placed in the flax experimental area for further investigations-. The principal reported that the dairy research- institute had accomplished a great deal in its investigation of openness in cheese. Most of this work had been done in the college dairy factory, but samples- had also been obtained from other affected and non-affected dairy factories-. Investigations into daily variations of the production of fat and milk by cows were being continued, the. college herd forming the' basis of experiments.