FOR 14 YEARS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31101, 2 July 1966, Page 8

FOR 14 YEARS

VVHEN members of the diploma of valuation and farm management course from Lincoln College visited the property of Mr P. C. Curd at Winchmore this week, Mr M. B. Cooke, senior lecturer in farm management and rural valuation at Lincoln, recalled that this group had been coming to Mr Curd’s farm for 14 years in the course of its studies. Now numbering 45, it was the biggest group that they had ever brought, he said. Mr Curd said that they had paid his farm another compliment in coining to see them. When the course had first come the members of the group had totalled only seven. As soon as the course members alighted from the bus on arrival at the farm at 9 a.m., they were quickly on the job measuring up farm buildings and inspecting farm machinery. The reason was that part of their exercise was to make

a full-scale valuation of the property. In addition, as a farm management study, the students were required to gather information for a comparative analysis of a 414 acres area of the farm as an all-grass sheep property and under a mixed cropping system. The whole of the morning wa« spent walking round the property and the afternoon in the woolshed where the students questioned Mr Curd about his property. For each such visit two different students from the course are delegated to lead in asking questions. Heaters and trestle tables had been placed in the wool shed for the convenience of the students and a particularly appreciated part of the day was morning and afternoon tea, provided by Mr and Mrs Curd, who were assisted by Mr and Mrs W. J. Day, the married couple on the property.