LINCOLN COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 845, 17 June 1910, Page 8

LINCOLN COLLEGE.

y A YEAR'S WORK. ;; ■; The annual report of the. Board of V Governors of Canterbury Agricultural > College at Lincoln states that the attend- : : once of students was' maintained at the ■ limit of accommodation .throughout the j year. Altogether 51 students were enrolled, or four iless than last year. The ; smaller number, enrolled is accounted. for ; by.the fact that practically all the stui dents completed thi full year. The work of the students in residence in 1909 was ; on the whole most satisfactory. Twenty-, v four students left the College at "the end : of last year, seven at the end of their first year, eight at the end of their second year, and one just before the.end of. his third year. Eight students completed . the course, and of these seven satisfied , the examiners and were awarded thc.dip,loma of the college. During the year upwards of, .£SOO was spent in permanentFor some, time it has ; been apparent that the area of the co'lj. lege farm was too limited to carry a 6afficient number of sheep for ■ the thorough training of students, and lat- :■ terlythe health of the sheep had' been : impaired by their being kept too continuously on the heavy lands of thtj . farm. The Board of Governors fortu- , nately were able, to purchase .1500 acres - of light land within a few miles of the y college., This has enabled the college to give the students a complete know- : ledge of the treatment of all classes of soils from the heaviest to the very light--1 est; at .the same.time 1600 more ewes can be carried, thus providing more sheep i; for training the students in sheep management, shearing, classing, etc. The general health of the sheep is very much improved by the frequent changing on the different classes of soil. The college land has been maintained in a high state of cultivation, all the operations being i: carried out on a commercial scale. ,The \ large number of crops and varieties grown J have/ a. .very high educational. value to , the students, and at the same time aro ; most interesting and instructive to visitors to the college.