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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 8

During a discussion at a meeting of the South Canterbury Executive oi the Farmers' Union, Mt. John Talbot (president) said that the experiments tarried out at Lincoln College were very useful, but euch experiments could be carried out on a fifty-acre paddock. The college was a very expansive thing. Such large 'sums of money as were spent on it would be more useful in experimental work all over the country. The question was whether they should encourage these colleges more, or procure 100 or 200 acres of land in different districts for experimental purposes. At a college the young man who knew nothing might Jeam a lot, but he would learn more on a practical farm. Mr. J. Withell said that the mistake ,was that youths went to the college for a year or two and did not take' a diploma, ft was not fair to judge the work of the college by such cases. "What is gaping to "happen to wool?" aska the Feilding Star. There have been some speculators from America abroad even in the Feilding district picking up parcels of fine merino with vthich to speculate for a removal of the duty in the tariff revision in U.S.A. And they have paid some good prices up here oil the spot, so that some of our pastoralists are not caring this'eeaFon now the sales go »n Wellington or in London. They are {sitting on 'the fence, now, amiling, and watching next y«tr's' fle«i*f coming an."