FARMERS’ PROBLEMS.
POSITION AFTER THE WAR. (P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 25. After the war farmers were 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) addressing the Auckland Creditmen's Club to-day.
Other problems, said Mr Campbell, would be falling prices for products, and the continued use of substitutes introduced in the war.
Referring to agricultural education, he said 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.
Former servicemen entering farming would be in three classes: First, practical farmers, for whom he suggested a graduate course at Massey College. Second, men with farm knowledge who would require assistance to go on farms, who should also be given a short course. Third, 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.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 271, 26 August 1943, Page 3
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