AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 13

AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS.

TOURING EXPERT’S INVESTIGATIONS. * AUCKLAND, July 23. Bound on an Empire tour, Sir John Russell, director of the Rothamstead Experiment Station, England, will arrive at Auckland on July 31. He plans to spend 18 days in New Zealand examining various phases of agricultural problems. The establishment which Sir John controls is recognised the world over as an-unassail-able and authoritative source of agricultural data on all phases of soil culture and farming methods. After two days in Auckland, Sir John Russell will leave on August 3 for Hamilton. On the following day he will visit the Government experimental farm at Mamaku, and will later proceed to Rotorua. Other places to be visited coinprise Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, and various other South Island centres. He will leave New Zealand on August 18. Sir John is at present making an intensive tour of Australia, where he is inquiring into many problems peculiar to Australian soil and visiting both experimental and private farms. One object which Sir John hopes will follow his Empire tour is that scientists pursuing .research in agricultural problems will pool their information, and so benefit not merely their • own countries but the whole of the Empire, and eventually the whole world.