SCIENCE AND FARMING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 45, 16 November 1937, Page 6

SCIENCE AND FARMING

I — Address To Napier Rotary Club "Education and Land Settlement"was the subject chosen by- Mr Campbell, of tho Napier Boys' High School staff, for his address to ' the Napier Rotary Club at yesterday 's luncheon in Blythe 'a tearooms. The idea he developed was that the sun was the souree of all energy^ and plants were tho agencies through which this solar energy was transmitted into animal food. This laid the cornorstone of agri- . culture, which was therefore the fundamental enterprise in every country. On this line of reasoning, agriculture must be the foundation of every civilisation,: and the success of agriculture meant better conditions all round. • Leading into the part education must play in agriculture and land settlement under modern conditions, Mr Campbell pointed out that the old pioneers had worked the land at .the expense of its natural fertility, without the scientifi? knowledge to restore that fertility, with the consequence that they had in isomw cases had to walk off large tracts of land, leaving them impoverished of their natural ' productiveness. The speaker was quite certain that, with the application of modern seientific knowledge as taught in the present-day instructional institution.y natural fertility could be conserved in, and restored to the soil. . Chief Rotarian R. W. Wallace presided, and the speaker was thanked for his address.