DAIRYING CLASSES.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 265, 14 May 1907, Page 3

DAIRYING CLASSES.

Referring to the Wanganui Education Board's dairying olasses, the Hawera Star says:— The enthusiasm with which the classes have been taken up, Mr Brown was very pleased to say, is highly satisfactory. In the country schools great pains have been' taken by the children # in regard to getting information concerning the individual cow, and some of the tabulated observations of the children are so useful that the Board is having them printed for circulation throughout the district. So keenly have the boys entered into the spirit of the work that after a couple of demonstrations they nave correctly tested milk with very little supervision, and thte girls are also most enthusiastic. The Kaponga boys are endeavoring to have arrangements made for their week's holiday to fall during the Palmerston Winter Show. If they are granted this desire we are informed that their intention is to go in force to Palmerston and camp there during the week. But first they will visit the Levin State- Farm, and glean what they can there, returning to Palmerston to compete at the show in * the testings against all comers. Among the adult students the same spirit of enthusiasm prevails, and it is urged that if similar competitions were arranged for at the Egmont A. and P. Show many of the students — children and adults— would take part. The youngsters are making a hobby of the work, and some of them, as proof of their earnestness, have invested in spring balances for weighing the milk, and are now saving to buy testers. The schools at which Mr Brown at present attends to hold the classes are Okaiawa, Manaia (2), Auroa, Kapuni, Kaponga, Mangatoki, Eltham; Matapu, and Hawera (3), making in all twelve classes each week. At Manaia most of those attending the classes are factory hands, at Eltham the majority are farmers, while at Hawera the pupils follow various avocations. It may be repeated that at Manaia an evidence of enthusism is that some of the students travel a distance of ten miles to the elass-. Whilst such a spirit continues, successful results are assured.