AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 27, 1 August 1911, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION.

PRACTICAL METHODS. fJBt TKMCGBAfH— aPtGIAI TO fH« POSl.j FETXDINO, This Day. Still fuithef evidence of generosity on his part has just been furtiished by Mr. Ernest .Short. Mr. James Grant, agricultural supervisor for the Wangatiui Education Hoard, stated to Mr. Short that he desired to arrange to camp about 50 boys from the Feilding and Wanganui district high schools on Mr. Shoi't's / Almadftle stud farm at Cheltenham in October next in order to give them practical instruction in the knowledge of farm animals. Mr. Short not only cordially agreed to the request but made some good suggestions. The best time to go would be the first week in October, when all the horses and cattle would be on the farm. He would also try to send along a batch of sheep to enable the boy.4 to gather further knowledge. Mr. Short also suggested that boys should be made to take off their > coats and do some work themselves, as that would be better than merely telling them. Mr. Grant's methods of teaching agriculture are always practical, and he is. doing remarkably good wofk in this direction.