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Presents a recap of the events that transpired during the summer meeting of the British Grassland Society, held at the Newscastle Upon Tyne, England. Attendees; Activities and programs; Details of the conference sessions.

The article presents a paper, which is based on the proceedings of the Sixth International Grassland Congress held in State College, Pennsylvania from August 17 to 23, 1952. The research papers read at the conference gave a good idea of trends in grassland research and covered the viewpoint of a large proportion of the world. The papers in the plenary sessions were of a more general character and a speaker from New Zealand seemed to condense the general attitude very aptly. He stressed the relative rigidity of the grassland system and the elasticity of the animal and pointed out that in practice both may be abused temporarily to suit the immediate conditions.

This article reports that the Yorkshire and Lancashire Province of the National Agricultural Advisory Service (NAAS) of the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food held a technical conference in Leeds on October 31, 1947 to discuss the research topic "The Utilization of Grass." Delegates from Agricultural Executive Committees, the National Farmers' Union and Young Farmers' Clubs were invited to participate in the meeting. Researcher S.J. Watson, reportedly, gave a paper on "The Food Value of Grass and Grass Products" in which he discussed the food value of plants at different stages of growth, of hay and losses in hay-making, of dried grass and silage. Researcher O.B. Chartres' paper on "Grass Drying on the Farm" pointed out that almost any farming system could be adapted for grass drying. It is further reported that the NAAS, Wales, conference at Crosswood, Aberystwyth, on February 5 was addressed by researcher W.D. Hay on "Grassland Development and the Home Production of Feeding Stuffs," researcher Moses Griffith on "Maximum Production and Utilization," professor Trevor Thomas on "Increased Production From the Grasslands of Wales," and researcher Albert Davies on "Forage Crops."

This article reports that the Fifth International Grassland Congress will be held at Noordwijk in the Netherlands from June 22-26, 1949. It has now been arranged that this Congress will be followed by various excursions. It will probably be generally agreed that the Executive Committee of the Society should take upon itself the nomination of British delegates over and above those who have been selected to read papers. There is a proposal that a limited number of traveling scholarships might be made available for post-graduate students just beginning their grassland work. Members are requested to inform the Secretary of the British Grassland Society if they wish to be considered as part of the British delegation to the Fifth International Grassland Congress.

The article presents information about a general meeting of the "Association for the study of Animal Behavior." The meeting was held on the January 8, 1951, in the Meeting Room of the Zoological Society of London, England. Some 14 papers were either presented or read in title and discussion was facilitated by the pre-circulation to those taking part of copies of the papers themselves. The opening paper "The Critical Approach in Grazing Behavior Studies," by leading agricultural scientist D.E. Tribe and Mr. J.G. Cordon, of the Rowett Research Institute, noted the marked advances in the recognition of the importance of animal behavior studies in agriculture.

This article focuses on the British Grassland Society Winter Meeting, which was held at Newcastle in England from January 4-5, 1949. The Meeting was well attended, nearly 100 members from the practical commercial and technical fields taking part in a programme which included visits to two farms to see silage that had been made under somewhat different conditions, but which in each case was being fed to dairy cattle, and a paper reading session and discussion, the general topics being pasture evaluation and the elimination of errors in trials and experiments. On the morning of the first day, members visited the farm of W. Rutherford, which lies, on the upper reaches of the Tyne at East Mill Hills, near Hexham. The 430 acres of this farm ranged in altitude from 230 to 880 feet above sea level. Rutherford keeps a dairy herd of British Frisians and it is his intention to have eventually a de-horned pedigree herd. The livestock consisted of 44 cows in milk or in calf, 24 bulling heifers, 17 yearlings and 15 heifer calves.

The article focuses on the 1946 Spring Meeting of the British Grassland Society. It was called this year at Pendley Manor, Tring, on the Hertfordshire-Buckinghamshire border, when seventy members hailing form all over the British Isles assembled for a couple of days erudite discussion on grassy subjects ranging from purely laboratory matters to the wider aspects of grassland output in its relation to the farm economy. The first day's meeting started with an exceptionally lively General Meeting. The President, Sir George Stapledon, as Chairman, was at the top of his form and continued solidly with paper reading.

This article focuses on the research paper "The Conservation of Fodder Crops for Winter Feeding," read by researcher R.E. Slade at a meeting of the Farmers' Club on December 1, 1947, held in London, England. In this paper, Slade expressed the opinion that it was the artificially low price of subsidized imported oil-seed cakes that was holding up the development of silage making and grass drying in this country. Oil cakes, reportedly, were scarce but the farmer asked for more rather than invest in silage or dried grass. He felt that not until the subsidy was removed would the farmer see the value of the feeding stuffs he could produce at home.

This article reports that the 1948 Annual Meeting of the British Society of Animal Production was held on February 18, at the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Bedford Square, London, England. Since the general topic of the meeting was "Animals and Grass," the members of the British Grassland Society have attended and contributed materially to the discussion. The morning session, reportedly, was given to a discussion on "Animals As Means of Evaluating Pasture Production." There were four papers followed by a long and interactive discussion. The afternoon discussion on "The Use of Grassland and Its Products by Animals" was opened by three farmers farming different types of country. A full discussion on ever recurring round silage, particularly trench silage, was followed.

The article reports that the Winter Meeting of the British Grassland Society will be held in London, England on December 12, 1958. The general theme for papers and discussions will be "Intensive Grassland Management for Sheep." The 1958 Summer Meeting of the British Grassland Society was held at Whitley Bay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, from July 14-16, 1958. Over 140 members, many of whom were accompanied by their wives, attended. On July 15, members toured north Northumberland and visits were paid to Snipe House, Alnwick; Elwick, Belford; and West Learmounth, Cornhill-on-Tweed.