FARM RESEARCH
KUAKUKA EXPERIMENTS CHANGE IN POLICY PLANNED FOCAL POINT OF FIELD WORK [FROM OUR OWN- correspondent] HAMILTON, Monday A statement' that the Government's experimental farm at Ruakura would be the focal point of all field investigations in the North Island and *that laboratory and plot experiments would ther» be translated into practical farming methods was made by the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, in Hamilton to-day. Particular attention was to be paid to experiments with pigs from both a scientific and practical aspect, and in order that more time should be devoted to this investigational work it was intended to stop the breeding of pedigree pigs,'said the Minister. Pedigree cattle, also, would probably have to give place to experimental and investigational work on a practical farm basis.
Mr. Lee Martin said that, splendid progress was being made with investigational work relating to feed taint and ragwort control. Ihe chemical laboratory at Ruakura was now completed and was being used by the research officers investigating the feed taint problem.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22845, 28 September 1937, Page 8
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