AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 427, 9 February 1909, Page 7

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

DR. CAPRA'S OBSERVATIONS. ]\ '.:< (BtTELEaiIArU—rRESS ASSOCIATION.) ",- : Christohurch, February 8. Dr. Capra, who is, investigating the agricultural and;general resources of the Dominion , on behalf of - the : Italian Government, visited. Lincoln, College to-dajv. and expressed him- 1 self as being surprised and delighted with what ho saw. Ho stated that he had never seen'such crops of wheat.in his life, Tho difference ..between .the system adopted at Lincoln College •:and that adopted in similar institutions, in Italy was that at Lincoln the ! students had to do practical farm, work, in addition. to, receiving instruction in theoretical agriculture, while in Italy the- agricul-, tural colleges had smaller areas of land, and they went' in for specialisation, one ;colkge taking up vine-growing, another grain-grow-ing, and another dairy-farming, and .the students were given very little practical work' to do. :Dr. Capra admired the Australasian system,' and thinks it is the only way of imparting thorough agricultural: instruction. . Aβ the result of his mission, and recommendations based thereon, he thinks that the same system will: ho. introduced in Italy. Dr, Oapra leaves to-morrow, for the West Coast to investigate the mining industry. Though there is no coal mining'in Italy, great use is made of tho rivers for generating electricity.