FAILURE OF EXPERMENTAL FARMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXI, Issue 4273, 24 January 1913, Page 2

FAILURE OF EXPERMENTAL FARMS.

■At the tune when too Qu'eeni-kno Minister for Agriculture in RHrionsl> revising the position find, prospec's of POtriD of hia experimental f*ir.vns, it i interesting to no'e that in New Sou-a -Wales similar nii.-givings are finding. expression in the annual- report of tbf Department. The Under-Secretary writes : — "Aftar tLuj experience of n period ranging frotn 10 to 20 year? •■ n .1. number of our faring theio ?r; n s ■ iriu'ly nu_v orfnint) tor Unit .1 (iuverni;i<i>!' iji;, , i u-1 ■'! ' i>;.;! < X!i:J!lg C■>■'! (l> : f< - ; I'M tl! I:; Oi l.]i!: :■ ', f.iVIIM."' 'I) :11 ! ''"' ■. rnorii'. in' !.■<!>.■:, !t i . ! l, n li/ilnnc:- -hi-'-;-! <■>' fh- 1 .'iiiii'it.- ---■ iifi/iiiM iirni- ii \V :i-ga "!'i ;>ti"l)!j -iui'.v goncl iic : ■μ-ui •• ; b trt vif'A . ihe l»nm-'d'-bi , li.l-; CO- dm -i:,' ■■.vlini of the operations, tfj: y do not give t>. in"!.= rht> i i! in; siUHiiie ion 1 n< v d iik r »," "Ir. i- MQ-v MTKi&nisf.!. , ! ih:it oitiic Rchoo! i-miH i- !ic i'(.e!,'.«srtr\ stiil !o (iiji Lr■-.->i!t; :n jii-i-a ■ uili'.'ii-nt tc« give at f .student:-; < ■ pp:u-J u>iity foi iinipla p; iioticiii training. jS,?von;i rbi -, it is comidw d wipo In ccmlu*i operations to th<:\ oduc/i.tioniil work o! •'experimenting on onr own farms, and then denionrifcrufcing on commercial areas on privftEeij owned farm?, under ordinary conditions of labour tho results of owe approved expeiiuientg." There in good reason for beiievir-;; that propariy c<nducted (lerapnsl-rfliion. plots on tho f.'inns would be of Uv greater vulne and iesa than most of our ex'pmrnentp.l Lvcns. Tho gicat diilicuJty hitherto has been, to gi>r, tuc farmer really interested in the work ■(that is goin<4 on, and to disabuse bis mind of the nuluvfi! idea that tho Governinenl; e.sUib!i.hhmL'nt is a spoon ! fed affair that haa no practical lessoo for the man who has to gat his living i out of the land and ;my besides. ~"N.Z. Dairyman,"