AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
“Bright Minds Needed”
(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, December 30.
A request that teachers should not direct all their bright pupils into academic or fashionable careers was made by Dr. G. (Edgar, of the Ruakura Animal Research Station, when he spoke at the South Pacific education conference at Tubikaramea. “We need bright minds in agriculture," he said. "We need agriculturalists, farmer leaders and we even need research workers.” Dr. Edgar described an experiment carried out on 20 high and low production farms in the Waikato. The result proved that 90 per cent, of the difference in production was environmental, and under the control of the farmer.
“It is not only important that we raise high quality animals.” he said. ‘St is much more important that we raise high quality farmers.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 14
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