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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9492, 23 April 1894, Page 6

It is evident that the Lancashire County Council have determined to push along in the work of imparting agricultural and technical education. Lately a farm has been taken, in order to have a sufficiently large area to carry out needful experiments. The farm, consisting of 100 acres, will be under the management of a comittoe and a practical bailiff. This now departure will bo watched with considerable interest. One paper remarks in regard to the farm :— " We trust that it will be submitted to very careful and judicious management, otherwise thore might bo a great sacrifice without material results. Our fears are, however, relieved by the consideration that they have good men and true in Lancashire and Cheshire who have already advanced the Cheshire cheese industry very considerably by the college and its technical instruction devised by Mr. Rigby and so ably carried." The results of frequent experiments pro"e that rape seed, in order to be successful, must have early sowing. The rape, being a deep-rooting crop, benefits the land by bringing up the mineral constituents of the subsoil, as well as depositing vegetable matter on tho surface of the land. I When you pinch back a rampant shoot) pinch at a bud. If you want the growth to i go upward, pinch to an outer bud; I