GRASS LAND RESEARCH AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

Northern Advocate, 1 April 1938, Page 7

GRASS LAND RESEARCH AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

I Special To “Northern Advocate”} PALMERSTON N„ This Day. Mr A. H. Cockayne. DirectorGeneral of Agriculture, in an address at the opening of the new building of the Grasslands Division of the Plant Research Bureau at Palmerston North yesterday afternoon, said the necessity for the co-ordination of grassland research with animal husbandry was a point which deserved consideration. Mr Cockayne, who was the pioneer of grassland research in New Zealand and/the director of the Plant Research Station until it was transferred to the Scientific and Industrial Research Department two years ago, performed the opening ceremony in the absence of the Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan. “Perhaps the most serious aspect so far as grassland is concerned is the lag that has taken place in the proper co-ordination of research from the animal aspect, as distinct from the pasture aspect. Here I want to say that if we are going to develop lull utilisation of our present and future grasslands, it is research into grassland farming in its entirety, where the soil, the plant, the animal and the farmer are -all taken into consideration. that, must be developed ”