SCHOOL FOR FARMERS

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1922, Page 8

SCHOOL FOR FARMERS

A WERAROA SCHEME. For some time past negotiations have been afoot to form a school at the ( entral Development Farm, Weraroa, where farmers from this district might meet for some days and receive instruction on farming problems from the experts of the Department of Agriculture. The manager of the farm, Mr. W. J. McCulloch. has now circularised the various Farmers’ Unions throughout the district. asking for the support of the members in securing students. In his circular the manager states:— “It is unnecessary for me to draw attention to the unqualified success ot similar schools at the Ruakura Farm of Instruction at Hamilton, and the undoubted advantages of the same to the farming community. All the necessary equipment and machinery for such instruction can be put into action at this farm if I can only get the support of the farmers in attending.” He suggests a four days’ course of instruction and demonstration, to include the following subjects:—Demonstrations and lectures on Friesian, Jersey, Shorthorn. Red Poll cattle, draught horses, pigs and poultry; also general agricultural subjects; manures and fertilisers, grass and pastures, crops and diseases, pests, etc., and the treatment of -soils, dairying subjects and woolclassing. The only cost to the visitors would be their board, the manager suggesting that they meet on a Monday and leave on the following Friday. With the number of subjects to be dealt with, this would make the days intervening fully occupied. He points out that 40 students Would be necessary before the school could open, which he hopes will 1$ 1a th« autumn.