Mid-day Talks to Farmers

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 11

Mid-day Talks to Farmers

[-ROM Monday next, August 5, a well. cooked lunch as food for the body won’t be the only mid-day attraction for Canterbury Farmers. There will be something else — special food for the mind, served by Station 3YA. This will take the form of short topical talks on farming, heard at 12.35 p.m. on Mondays. An advance glimpse of some of the talks scheduled suggests that there will be something for every farmer. The staff of Lincoln College and officials of the Department of Agriculture are helping with the series, and from these and other sources it is intended to present a wide range of talks. L. W. McCaskill, Rural Education Officer at Lincoln, is to lead off on August 5 with a talk introducing the session, and on the following week George Holford, of the Department of Agriculture, will speak on "All Flesh is Grass," a true generalisation which has particular application to this country of grassland farming. Third talk ts "The Care of the Fat Lamb Flock," by D. B. McLeod, of Lincoln, Among other talks listed or contemplated are "Barley Growing in Canterbury," "Troubles with Poultry," "Recent Trends in Land Values in Canterbury," "Improving the Farm Garden," "Lucerne on the Mixed Farm," "The Sheep Dog," "Recent Work on Sheep Dipping." It is hoped also that, now and then, farmers will be told something about farming in other lands. And the talks won’t be confined to actual farm work, There will be something about the use of leisure-reading and hobbies. The women of the house will not be overlooked,