"THE COUNTRY PROSPEROUS,"

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1152, 13 June 1911, Page 8

"THE COUNTRY PROSPEROUS,"

DJjI'AKXJIKXT'S FARM CADET SI'STEJI. Last week a parly of agriculturists and others who wore attending the Waikato Winter Show vi;ite:l I lie Buakura State I'arin. In a i-peEch made at the larai, -Mr. U. I'liHan (the Departmental oflicer 111 charge of experiment farms.) sml the cliiei rear-cm tor the lack of interest in the work of the farms war. that the country was so pro.-prrou?, even working under old methods., that the people did not worry about experiments or new ideas. Jle hoped that the period of prosperity would be a long time passing away, but at I he. same time they must make provision for less prosperous times, and one of the great factors in assisting when conditions arrived would be the practice of up-to-date and scientific methods. Tito new college buildings (Mr. Clifton continued), were now complete, and they were in a position to take twelve cadets, which he hoped would lead to good results. The old barrack-rocni system which obtained in similar institutions in other parts of the world, was not, to his mind, so satisfactory as dealing with them ill small numbers, where they could have the personal supervision of the manager and his wife, and receivc a training in scientific agriculture.