LINCOLN COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1336, 13 January 1912, Page 8

LINCOLN COLLEGE.

DISCUSSED BY PRACTICAL FARMERS. At a mooting of the South Canterbury Executive of the Farmers' Union last week a discussion on tho institution arose, says a southern paper, as a result of the recent visit by a number of South I Canterbury farmers to tho college. Mr., John Talbot (president of tho union) said J there v."as no royal road to successful i farming, and ho did not think that tho * Lincoln College farm was a success from 1 a financial point of view. The work < done thero was all very well in its way, but he thought tlio samo results couid \ be obtained .in a much cheaper way. There was a farm of 2000 acres at the College, but all the experiments that wei'O carried out there could 1m carried out just as well on a farm of 200 acres. And he thought it would be much better to have several small experimental farms than to have a large and costly institution like Lincoln College. It did not appear that the Collor/c did a great deal to have several small exporiment farms ers, for there wero no better farmers in North Canterbury than iff South Canterbury, and the latter had no college to tench them. Mr. John Withell siioke in support of tho College, as did also several other speakers, while some expressed the opinion that moro good would bo done by establishing small experiment farms over North Canterbury and South Canterbury.