COURSES AT LINCOLN

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 7, 9 July 1945, Page 6

COURSES AT LINCOLN

PEAK YEAR EXPECTED IN

1946

Anticipating 1946 as the peak year regarding the numbers of ex-service-men farm trainees, the Rehabilitation Board .has recommended that temporary accommodation should be provided at Lincoln Agricultural College as soon as it can be arranged. A building extension programme had already been proposed, but it was decided that this would not be completed in time to cope with the influx of exservicemen students that is expected. Commencing at the beginning of May, the first course in arable farming has been completed at Lincoln College. The course, which lasted for four weeks, was designed to meet the needs of men with good experience of grassland farming but without experience of cultivation, the handling of supplementary forage crops and the implements used in their production. Ex-servicemen who took the course have commented favourably upon it. At Massey Agricultural College, where ex-servicemen farming students are also trained, it is now proposed as a result of experience to stage four short and intensive courses of nine weeks each instead of three, and to have two 18 weeks' courses instead of one, as in the past. It is expected that the extra courses will do away with the banking up of students from the start of the existing third-term course until the commencement of the following academic year, and so relieve the strain on the college staff and on the accommodation. The proposal has been approved by the Rehabilitation Board. ' '