AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 January 1947, Page 8

AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS

MASSEY COLLEGE EXHIBIT. Many points in modern sheep and dairy husbandry are emphasised in a comprehensive display by Massey Agricultural College at the Marton A. and P. Show. The exhibit, staged under the main grandstand, has attracted a good deal of attention from both farmers and townspeople. Wool faults, hereditary and acquired arc shown In a large cabinet, and samples of wool and artificial fibres afford a comparison with the synthetic product. Much interest has been taken in a largo book of samples such as are gathered together in project form by each of the sheepfarming and professional wool-classing students at the College; which book becomes the student’s own property and is invaluable for reference over the years. A diagram which should appeal to dairy farmers shows a straightforward and unchanged routine, with a minimum of delay, results in satisfactory milking and maximum yields. In addition to this study in milk secretion, there are some pointers towards a solution of the problem of breeding and selection for higher production in the herd. This is through the use oi those bulls capable of transmitting superior hereditary characteristics to their progeny. The fact that a bull may be the son of a cow which has produced 5001 b of fat In a season Is stated to be no guarantee of his breeding worth. The display Is embellished by photographs covering a wide range, and including student life at the college, work on the sheep, dairy and poltry farms and horticultural properties, and shots of veterinary and farm drainage demonstrations.

U.N.R.R.A. GIVES £150,000,000 (A.P.) Rome. When U.N.R.R.A. closes shop in Italy- some time after the first quarter of 1947—the agency will have given the nation, its mission chief says, about one-half of the stake that she needs in the post-war world. U.N.R.R.A. officially died in Italy, as elsewhere, on the last day of 1946. This only meant, however, that, after that time nothing more would be added, and that U.N.R.R.A. would deliver what, already had been apportioned to Italy. U.N.R.R.A. will have delivered, in all, lOi million tons of fuel, food, metals, rubber, medical supplies, fertilisers, and cloth or raw textiles, valued at over £150,000,000, before the Italian programme ends. Seventy per cent, of the deliveries already have been made. Of that, at least three-fourths already is flesh and disease-resistant stamina in Italian bodies, or steel and mortar, locomotives that have fuel or oil to move them, and factories that have fuel and power to produce. Italy to-day is “a country well on its way to taking its place in a world of reconstructed nations,” an official U.N.R.R.A. announcement said.

Before the U.N.R.R.A. programme in Italy began—coming to £3 10s for each Italian man, woman, and child—the Foreign Economic Administration spent £30,000,000 in relief in Italy. Altogether, U.N.R.R.A. and its predecessors have poured a minimum of £210,000,000 of relief into Italy. The peace treaty demands £108,000,000 from Italy in reparations—all lo Russia, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Ethiopia—which is only £3,000,000 more than half of the direct dollar value of the relief Italy has received.