MARLBOROUGH AND NELSON FARMERS’ WINTER SCHOOL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 July 1924, Page 5

MARLBOROUGH AND NELSON FARMERS’ WINTER SCHOOL

This year, for the first time, the Agriculture Department are holding for the benefit of the Marlborough and Nelson farmers, a winter school at Blenheim. This school opens on Monday evening, August 4th, and continues until JO p.m. on Friday evening, August Bth. Some years ago the Farm School movement was set on foot in the United States of America. Summer and winter schools have in that country continued to increase in popularity to -such an extent that they are now recognised annual institutions. It is not possible for all farmers to attend Agricultural Colleges, nor is it essential that they should do so. To

such an extent, however, have farming conditions in New Zealand changed within the last decade, that it is now not only desirable but imperative that the farmer should kiiow more of his business than he did formerly. Success on high priced land will not com© to the man who refuses to conduct his farm in a methodical, practical, and at the same time scientific manner. Haphazard methods might have canned the farmer through when, land was bought as £25 or £3O per acre. When, however, the price of the same land rises to £SO or £6O per acre, owing to increased prices for our produce on the Home market, the farmer, must beware lest he be unprepared to continue farming his higher-prices land now that butter-fat prices show a somewhat downward tendency. At the Farm School fanners will have the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the latest developments in the agricultural, pastoral,) and dairying Ivor Id. Furthermore, they will be able to* witness practical demonstrations on various types of stock. It is to be hoped that Nelson farmers will not miss this golden opportunity of getting into touch with what should prove to them a. valuable source of help in their daily vocations. All lectures are free, but farmers will have to find their own accommodation in Blenheim.