BETTER FARMING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18912, 29 January 1927, Page 10

BETTER FARMING.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ON WHEELS. (FROM OCR OWK CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY, January 20. The Great White Train, which has with Government assistance been serpentining the State for many months, as a means of advertising Australianmade goods, and which as a mobile exhibition has been attracting much attention, is to be known henceforth as the "Better Farming Train." It is to be ' re-equipped, and be used as a means of instructing men on the land, and more especially new and struggling settlers. It will visit in turn all the famine districts in the State. Fitted with wireless, for the purpose of having lectures, broadcast, and with experts on board, to ■ assist producers in the solution of their many problems, it will be something of an agricultural college on wheels. If this novel tram fulfils even. ui part the ambitious aims mapped out for it, its value to the men on the land will be beyond doubt. The Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr Fraser, it is stated, is so convinced that the project will serve to encourage settlement, and so improve tne railway revenue by more traffic, that he is willing to share the eost of eauipping and running the train. The Government is out .just now to capture the rural vote, which it badly needs, and this new scheme, if it is well carried out, ought to serve in a measure ro put the Labour Party in better grace m the country. The Government has the co-operation of the Press in this project, even if it is attacking it without mercy on other grounds.