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THE Agricultural Improvement Council for England and Wales has set up a Committee “to investigate the present position of hill and upland sheep farming in England and Wales and in the light of modern scientific knowledge to suggest measures that might be taken to improve the condition of hill and upland grazings, the health and hardiness of sheep stocks and systems of stocking and management”. The Committee is constituted as follows: Lord De La Warr (chairman) ; Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, Mr. Moses Griffith, grassland adviser at the Plant-breeding Station, Aberystwyth ; Mr. David Lewis ; Dr. R. F. Montgomerie ; Prof. G. W. Robinson, professor of agricultural chemistry in the University College of North Wales, Bangor ; Dr. R. W. Wheldon, lecturer in agriculture at King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. W. Wilson. Mr. D. H. Dinsdale, adviser in agricultural economics, King's College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, will act as technical secretary to the Committee, and the administrative secretary will be Mr. J. H. Banbury, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Lindum Hotel, St. Annes-on-Sea, Lanes.
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Hill Sheep Farming. Nature 149, 108 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149108c0
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