Rozwój łąkarstwa w Małopolsce w okresie przedwojennym

Grassland science developing in the interwars period on the south-east region of Poland

The paper specifies some agriculture organizations and persons, which influenced on the grassland science developing and shows the ways of their activities.  Main agricultural organizations in this time were: Agricultural Association and Agricultural Chamber in Krakow and Lwow, which concentrated the grassland specialists (instructors) from one to two in each district. Their task was propagation the new methods of grassland management on the south-east region of Poland. lt concerned at first organic fertilization and resowing grasses and legumes into degraded swards. To the persons especially merited belongs first of all prof. dr Jan Włodek - head of General Plant Cultivation Department at Jagiellonian University, dr Edward Ralski, dr Jan Kiełbiński and eng. Mieczysław Nowak, which was instructor of Agricultural Chamber in Krakow, and next also the professor of SGGW in Warsaw.  All specified persons and especially prof. J. Włodek and chg. M. Nowak in the highest grade contributed to increment grassland production and improvement of grassland yielding quality.