METHVEN FARM SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18421, 30 June 1925, Page 4

METHVEN FARM SCHOOL.

VALUABLE ADDRESSES. The Canterbury and Otago Farm School was continued at Methven on Saturday moroins in All Saints' Parian Hall. There \tu a largo attendance of farmers, and the lectures wore attentively listened to. At the morning session Mr P; D. "Ward lectured on pasture establishment and management, more especially having to do with top-dressing of pastures. In tho afUrnoon the School adjourned to Mr Jer. McAnulty's farm, where Mr H. E. B. "Wataon, Livestock Demonstrator, lectured on tho dairy cow. Mr McAnulty is a, well-known and successful breeder of Friesians. Tho evening session had a record attendant*, about 150 being prssent, It took tho form of an open discussion on the tractor v. eix-horsa. team. Speakers supporting horses were Messrs -T. Brown (Lowcliffe), and J. W. M. Dart (MetJjven), while Messrs J. W. Mulholland Jer. McAnulty *polto in favour of tho Vactor. Tho discussion web vory interesting, and many of those in the audienco also spoke for tho different eidea The general opinion was in favour of tho six-horso team, with tho tractor as an auxiliary on the farm. After the discussion, Mr K. J. Low, president of the Methven A. and P. Assooia-.; t'iou, and Mr J. R. Dalton, president of tue Farmers' Union, thanked the lecturers for thoir very instructive addresses. Mr A. IT. Cockayne replied on behalf of tho instructors. . , The following resolution was carried un-animously:—-In view of the importance of the experimental top-dressinsr work now bein<r conducted bv the Fields Division in Canterbury, and the urgent necessity .?<>* estendins this work into as many districts ae possible, the Government is urped to make extra provision, both in money and in training men, to enable this to be done. In addition, the present price of artificial manures in Canterbury appears to be unreasonably liieh. and tho Government is urged to make full enquiries into the reasojj for the present price, and devise means for its reduction."