RESEARCH WORK AT MASSEY COLLEGE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6865, 21 March 1929, Page 6

RESEARCH WORK AT MASSEY COLLEGE

PROGRESS REPORTED. WOOL, FLAX AND CHEESE. Brief mention of several important investigations being made by tho Massey Agricultural College stall was made at yesterday’s meeting of the College council. , . The principal (Prof. Peren)_ reported on tho progress being made in regard to wool research, stating that Dr. Dry (zoologist), Mr Scrivener (soil chemist) and himself had visited 35 stud Romney flocks in the North Island and secured a largo amount of data and material including 200 ewes which will bo used for special matings in connection with wool research. In res-pect of flax, Dr Yeates, had spent the summer scouring 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 also reported that tlie 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-affectcd dairy factories. The investigations into daily . variations of production of fat and milk by cows, is being continued, the college herd forming the basis of the experiments.