SHEEP INDUSTRY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 2 June 1937, Page 8

SHEEP INDUSTRY

FARMERS’ ANNUAL MEETING. MASSEY COLLEGE LECTURE. Scheduled to extend, with a series of addresses and discussions over three full days, the sixth annual meeting of sheep farmers opened at Massey College this morning, when the principal (Professor G. S. Peren) piesided over an attendance ot about Commenting that the committee responsible for the organisation of the gathering had done its best to arrange an interesting programme of lectures Professor Peren said lie was confident that it would be a very useful meeting. It had been intended, he added, that the Director-Genera of Agriculture (Mr A. H. Cockayne) should open the gathering, but upon consideration it had been thought be ter for him to deliver an address tomorrow on live stock improvement schemes. Professor Peren said that the meeting had been called as one of sheep fanners, instead ot sheep breeders, as formerly, in order to correct an impression that it was convened solely for stud sheep breeders. Its object was to cater lor the man on the hill country as well as on the flats, and he hoped that there would be full and informative discussions at the conclusion of every address. There was a suggestion that the management committee which convened the meeting would be more representative if elected by the gathering annually, and that proposal would be put iorward officially to-morrow. Professor Peren added that bir William Perry had presided over the meetings during the past five years, and on the speaker’s motion a warm vote of thanks was accorded the former chairman. UTILISATION SURVEYS. Reviews of a survey of land utilisation in Hawke’s Bay were given in the lfist lecture symposium this morning, those contributing to the group being Mr 1. J. Pohlen, of the soil survey division, Department or bcientific and Industrial Research, who spoke on soils; Mr E. A. Madden, grasslands division, Palmerston North, who spoke on pastures; and Mr R. P- Connell, fields division, Department of Agriculture, who spoke on farm management. Subsequently, Mr AY. C-' Barry, Director of the Live Stock/ Division ot the Department of Agriculture, gave an address on arthritis in sheep, and this afternoon a lecture group was dealing with tlie subject of the improvement of wet rush-covered country. •