SCIENTIFIC FARMING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1919, Page 4

SCIENTIFIC FARMING

m TEAOgSBg- ■ ■ "SCB^OL’’^SPAKURA. The school of .ii hehWfor teachers at the Rua&ont> State*-jFang last week, was aa -unqualified’-success, say* the Auckland iHerald. men and (Seventeen cornea teadbere tended throughout the cquree, others visited the school; 1« reptertihg to the Auckland Education Board,; the supervisor of the uormW and ’todbucu branch, Mg. <1- P. JSalaagher, eald Jhe could not speak too highly of success whim had attended' the gathermg. * “I am thoroughly convinced,” hp said, ‘ ‘that these -teachers’ farm dpsdous are doing magnfficept work/ and/that they ’ will Ibe the imhaiiß of -putting!,elementary' agriculture mstreetiim'/' te school* on a thoroughly sound 'Has*. More than this, jtheasjie if disseminating the ittfOrination. by officials ol the culture than hj making *uaeo| leachere as (the Lricfe 'aAd dswemihated 4 will -arouse- interest* among the and cause them-to turn more rpadJily : to guidance and assistance. Thus standard of New Zealand agriculture he raised. Teachers from Auckland education sent at tho farm school, and wheu, th©y return to their schools they , will’ take with them the knowledge gained by a visit to an up-to-date,-well maqtged Earns, ;on which all branches pi fatriuog bow conduCtoi, and they will also 4a#e the kndwfed|fr gained by contact with the leading officers, of the Agriculture. The/womeu bended the lectures .and regularly during ihferweek, I propose, fc*ith the conseht of the Agriculture, and. 'fhe iEydlhP Board, to the scqpe‘J?of these bhat they will ptpye of the greatest benefit to in agricaJfcwq aduoatipn.” ./, f- 1 ' --’ * , hj • ochool; at fi*a Jwkween . May.,- tod Tqly, the supervisor .was given (authority to. the; tJawes, provided oonrent andcodperetion osthe Dgpajrfcmeat of Agriculture could ‘be obtained. _ « . k.S