FARM TRAINING

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 15

FARM TRAINING

■i pIUCTK'AL WO UK FOR j STI'DKNTS ._ scheme £cr practical training in p'riculture - 1 number of students | been inaus'jratcd by the Christchurch Ttchmea? Colicjte, and 12 third-yen--- commenced a curse of p!-ac*:.-;U farm work yester--5 v "^Thc": : !; will visit farms around Chr;-"--' , .'jrch during the sumjner'nicr/.:;- r.: will work for a I'ortBicrht cn each 'ixi'iu under the tuition c f°tiie farr.c:The boy; v.tuM .may on the farms ]n groups »: Mr A. V. G. Lip?-1 conJ b, teacher at the; joitege. sa ; ri m explaining the scheme, j fzA ?r>A.n would be s-ent to a farm J I rear Chris:i.- , '...-<'h for a fortnight and | would ':i routine farm work. | The boy-; '.'ic; return to their homes i each evon !:■: ':■[ Each t ho 'Joys would be i! changed t. a chsTuvr.t farm. so that fr.:y woti'.d :-vci:re practical experience in .*>•> :ypc> of farming as possible T.would be sent to I sjieep'anr.' s tiairy fornici>, orehardjsts. b'JiM'.-.iit!! and poultry farpiers, ao-d. •: edible. a course in pigfarming voutd bo arranecd. At the ,- : *irt each iortnight the boys vot.hi be given a list of questions to be answered from the experience .unused on the farms. At the end of the fortnight each boy would j write up the notes he had taken and i would submit the answers to the I questions to Mr Lipscomb.