EDUCATING THE FARMER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1426, 29 April 1912, Page 8

EDUCATING THE FARMER.

"BETTER FARMING, SPECIAL TRAINS." - Some interesting particulars regarding one of.the many means of educating farmers in Canada are contained in a letter received by Mr. C. A. L\ Fergusou, of ChrisLchurcli, from his brother, who is at the Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario. .The writer (says the 'Tress") states (hat lie was recently invited by one of the lecturers to take a trip in the "Belter Fanning Special Train. This train consisted of eleven large cars, four of which .were fitted up as demonstration cars,, touching every phase of farming that would interest a fanner, horticulturist, dairyman, or bee-keeper, three as lecture cars, -intl others as dining and sleeping cars. This train «- a s titled nut by the Government, and was three weeks 011 the road, pulling up at. throe farm centres every -.lay in the week except Sunday. The day and time of arrival was well advertised in each centre, ami when the train pulled up at the Jir.-t. stopping-place there was a crowd of five or six hundred people trailing its arrival. They were shown into the lecture cars, in each of which a lecture teas given. Each lecture was of half-an-liour's duration, and as (he lectures extended over three periods nine were given (luring (hat lime. An hour and a half was then spent in the demonstration cars. Various specialists: presided ovir each department, so that a farmer could get any information he wanted, from the rearing of chickens to the building of a sTlo, As soon as the time was up, the train pulled out, and proceeded al top speed to the next stopping-place,. a distance of from 30 lo 40 miles. ' The lectures given were arranged so as to prove .suitable lo the industries id' the various localilies. Oairyiug, Iruil culture, agricultural and bee-keeping ill - tricts had their own special lectures to be given. Upwards of 5U centres altowere visited. and 130 lecture: given,

not taking into cuiiMiicralinn tlic infnrnuition dispensed in the demonstration cars. 'J'Jio iivorajji' aUemliiMci. 1 was iiTjiml ■Kill farmers at each stopping-place, and mi 20,(101) fanners altogether were dirocllr benefited bv Ih? scheme. 'I'ho writer exprfswd the opinion that the scheme, if put into practice in »w Zealand, ivciiil-1 do a grout deal of good. 'The Canadian farmers ucie nut backward in asking question*, unci at u practical tletiiniistviitioii of glutting, draiuina, manuring, apple-packing, silo-buildiug, poul-iTy-kwpiiiij, etc., one heard c|U<\-tions being fired at Ihe demonstrator like Inillets from a magazine ride, and rcalinvl ivliiit good was being done. A number of farmers, asked fot their opinion on matters invariably replied that Hie time occupied was too short. "I wanted more information" was each one's cry.

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