Winter Farm Course

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29240, 25 June 1960, Page 9

Winter Farm Course

A winter farm course will be held in Mid-Canterbury next week under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture and the Rakaia, Lauriston, and Pendarves branches of Federated Farmers.

The programme will begin on Tuesday evening at Rakaia with addresses by Professor B. P. Philpott, professor of agricultural economics at Canterbury Agricultural College, on future prospects and markets for agricultural products, and Mr A. • Marshall, a public accountant and taxation consultant, of Ashburton, on taxation and the farmer.

On Wednesday afternoon there will be a field day on the property of Mr D. B. Thomas at Rokeby and in the evening Mr J. M. Kelsey, officer in charge of the entomological sub-station at Lincoln, will speak about insect pests of pastures and crops, and Dr. Harvey Smith, of the plant diseases division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, will discuss diseases of pastures and crops. The final day will include a field afternoon on the property of Mr J. G. King at Pendarves, followed by lectures in the evening on expert-

ments on animal thrift by Mr K. G. Haughey, senior veterinarian of the Ashburton Veterinary Club, and experiments at Winchmore on animal thrift by Mr M. K. Hill, of the Winchmore irrigation research station.