A DOUBLE-BARRELLED ambition.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 99, 20 January 1908, Page 2

A DOUBLE-BARRELLED ambition.

FEEDING'S SUGGESTION, ! The "Foilding Star."' (telegraphs our correspondent), suggests.: " That the movement towards the establishment by the State of an experimental dairy school in tho Feildiug district • might well be enlarged to include tho organising of an agricultural college for the North Island. _ This is. an institution which might be said to be only second in importance to the dairy school, for in our Island there is no institution. to which sons" of farmers can go after finishing their general eduoation at the primary school and the socondary institutions. The farmers of tho South Island have the Lincoln College, 'near Christchurch, and sons of North Island farmors liavo also attended that institution. In these prosperous times our farmers would certainly take advantage of an agricultural collego to give, their sons a finished educa- ■ tion along such practical lines as are offered at a sohool similar to that which has been in oxistenco at Lincoln for some years. This island also needs a place where demonstrations can be given in training clayey soils,' niid the fifty acres offered in the Feildiug district are admirably adapted,- wo arc assured, not only for the purposes of an Agricultural College, but also such an institution could bo admirably combined with an experimental dairy school."