SESSIONS FOR FARMERS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 20

SESSIONS FOR FARMERS

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HE mid-day talks for farmers that were introduced as an experiment from 2YA last year will be’ starting again on Thursday, February 19, at 12.35 p.m., when the first talk for 1948 will be on Buying Grass and Clover Seed. for Permanent Pastures. The session will be broadcast at the same time every Thursday for the rest of the year. Stations 1YA and 3YA are also beginning a weekly series of mid-day and evening talks for farmers. Last year’s mid-day talks from 2YA were given only by members of the staff of Massey College, but this year, for greater variety, talks will be given as well by members of the Department of Agriculture, and possibly by visiting farmers from other countries. Pig production talks also, which are given at bi-monthly intervals, are now to be included in the mid-day sessions, starting on March 18 and continuing on the third Thursday in every second month thereafter. As a further variant there will be an interchange of farm talks between 1YA, 2YA, and 3YA, so that everyone will get the benefit of the best of the various sessions, and there is the added possibility. that talks dealing with farming conditions in Australia will be included. Information for these would be obtained from the Australian High Commissioner’s Office. For. Farmers’ Wives Station 3YA has already begun its year’s quota of mid-day talks. These are given at 12.35 p.m. on Mondays, and the first was heard on January 12. Of the total of 47 talks which will be given from this station during the year, it is hoped that about 14 will come from

members of the staff of Lincoln College, 11 from the Department of Agriculture in Christchurch, eight from the Federated Farmers, five from the Young Farmers’ Club, and nine-special talks for women-will be given by. farmers’ wives and other women associated with farming. In. addition, a quarter-hour Thursday evening talk for farmers will begin from 3YA on April 1, at 7.15 p.m. From 1YA mid-day farm talks will begin on -Tuesday, March 2, at 12.35 p.m., and will continue at «weekly intervals during the year. It has not yet been definitely decided who will give all these talks, but the first Tuesday in each month has been tentatively allotted ta Auckland members of the Department of Agriculture, the second to the Federated Farmers, the third to the Young Farmers’ Club, and the fourth to Pig Production talks. A weekly Monday evening session for farmers (at 7.15 p.m.) will also begin from 1YA on March 15. Farming sessions to be broadcast from 4YA this year are in course of prepara tion and details of these will be an nounced later.