YOUNG FARMERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 14

YOUNG FARMERS

CLUB IN EGYPT

CONDITIONS STUDIED THERE

. Young farmers with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt are maintaining their interest in their profession there by studying local conditions. About eighty of them have formed a club.

Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. Pierce, Officer Commanding the Second Divisional Cavalry Regiment, has written to the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin) as follows: —"The members of Young Farmers' Clubs in my regiment have formed a club here, and gat 4n." touch with the Department of Agriculture, and last Sunday they conducted us over their State farm in Cairo. . This week they are arranging for us to visit the Royal Agricultural Show. The officials of the State farm have been most helpful and courteous. As I have several members of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture in my regiment it is also most valuable to'them."

"Qne of our chaps who was at Massey College got into touch with the local Director of Industrial Research, and we are going out next Sunday to see the Plant Research Station at Gizeh (near the Pyramids," one of the trooper& ' has written home. "They are very progressive with their cotton and do not aliow any inferior seed whatever to be sojd.or planted; all is,tested and certified. They .have model factories for extracting olive, oil, oil of roses, tinning fruitr, beans, tomatoes, etc. Any industry they wish to start is first of all tried out in miniature at this station. Other trips have been arranged to cotton mills, industrial factories and works, irrigation schemes, poultry farms, cropping experimental areas, and a horse-breeding establishment. We are also to inspect a datestoning and sterilising plant."