LINCOLN COLLEGE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21775, 6 May 1936, Page 8

LINCOLN COLLEGE

TO THB BUITOB OF THC FBESS. Sir, —Your correspondent "Research" asks if it would interest me to know that he has passed through two universities. I should think it would; in fact, it reminds me that I have done the same thing, not through two of them, but through one several times.' I am sorry that I forgot to mention the fact, though it would not have helped my argument much. He tells us what sort of a director "the vast majority of educated farmers" are looking for, just a good farm manager, well educated, and one of the useful sort, who can show how to dig a ditch or trim a fence to the enlightenment of all visitors. I refuse to believe that there are many farmers with the same narrow outlook which "Research" displays: if there were, the future prospects of Lincoln College would be dull indeed, in fact, its position would be about the same as in its opening years.

Massey and Lincoln Colleges are in close touch, doing the same work to a certain extent, though each has its own special lines. Most of the dairying and grassland study is allotted to Palmerston North, one of the main centres of dairying, while most of the cropping problems are worked out at Lincoln, a very sensible and appropriate arrangement. At Lincoln a great deal of scientific knowledge about wheat has been utilised, and is still needed if progress is to be made. If "Research" had his way there would soon be no grants for research and experimental work at Lincoln, and all the important work would simply be handed over to Massey College.—Yours, etc., T.A.S. May 4, 1936.