STUDY OF FARM LIFE IN N.Z.

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27052, 29 May 1953, Page 2

STUDY OF FARM LIFE IN N.Z.

AMERICAN VISITOR’S PLANS

Mrs Helen Carlton Smith, first vicepresident of the Associated Country Women of the World, who is spending a week in New Zealand, is a practical fanner. She wishes to observe how country women live and work in the Dominion and she would like to see a New Zealand sheep station and something of what the country is achieving in the sphere of grass and other seed-raising projects. Before the wider, international sphere of A.C.W.W. work called her, Mrs 'Carlton Smith was, she says, probably the largest independent woman runbolder of sheep in the United States. Her land in Idaho carried 10,000 sheep. From sheep she has switched to raising certified seed, lucerne, clover, onions and beans. She has 1600 acres of land, all irrigated, where intensified farming is carried on. In preparation for taking up farm life on the properties she inherited. Mrs Carlton Smith obtained a degree in agriculture science from an American university, and also studied at Cambridge, Where she took a degree in nutrition. She says that more and more young women today are studying at agricultural colleges in the United States, where courses offer so much more than they did in her day. Mrs Carlton Smith employs newly-graduated holders of degrees in agricultural science on her Idaho farms, where they gain practical experience in seedraising. As A.C.W.W. representative on the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, Mrs Carlton Smith spends .some time in Rome, now the organisation's headquarters. Previously she attended sessions in Wash-? ington. When she leaves New Zealand by air for the United States, Mrs Carlton Smith will go first to California and will visit her farms. After that, she will visit Canada to prepare for the A.C.W.W. conference in August.