POST-WAR FARMING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1943, Page 6

POST-WAR FARMING

MANY PROBLEMS AHEAD

P.A. AUCKLAND, This Day. After the war farmers are likely to be faced with problems of costs, deterioration of soil, and loss of fertility through insufficient fertilisers, said Mr. Grey Campbell, Chairman of the Massey Agricultural College Governors, in addressing the Auckland Creditmen's Club today. Other, problems, he said, would be falling prices for products and the.continued use cf substitutes introduced in the war.

Referring to agricultural education he declared that the curricula should be altered to prepare a greater, number of pupils in schools for rural occupations, and girls should be more ■trained in homemaking and domestic science.

'Ex-servicemen entering farming would' be in three classes, he said— Firstly, practical farmers, for whom he suggested an adequate course at Massey College; secondly, men with farm knowledge who would .require, assistance to go on farms, arid who should also be given a short course; thirdly, men with no practical experience who desired to go farming and should be immediately placed under good farmers, after which they should attend a college instructional course.