GRASSLAND FARMING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 6

GRASSLAND FARMING.

Recognising the important part it will play in the development of the Dominion, the formation of an association for the advancement of grassland farming, which was decided upon at a meeting held in this centre recently, has been warmly approved throughout the country. Comment was made by the Otago Daily Times that the executive committee did not “contain the name of a single South Island representative, either in the sphere of Government research, or in that of private experimental work,” but the statement we published the other day makes it clear that the association is a Dominion_ body, working for the country s interests as a whole, and not for one section. The desire for a centralised executive explains the absence of' direct South Island representation on this committee, and the fact that the next conference will be held in Christchurch should allay any feelings that the South is not being given proper consideration. Commending the desirability of grassland research, our contemporary says the “existence of nearly 13,000,000 acres of unimproved occupied land, comprising tussock and native grasses in the South Island, as against 1,300,000 acres of similar country in the North Island, may be taken as convincing evidence of the need of vigorous and widespread grassland research in the South Island.” The association will have a large field in which to direct its energies and its progress will be watched with considerable interest by pastoralists.