ENGLISH AGRICULTURE.
Mb. J. E. Vernon, of Palmerston North, who has just returned from the Old Country, has had something interesting to gay concerning British agriculture. England, lie Bays, had experienced one of the best summers, but there was not the amount of iunnhine experienced in the Old Country as in tho Dominion. The farms he saw Mr, Vernon described as very good, and tho method of agriculture was by no 'means so antiquated as some would have lis believe. They axe different from those of New Zealand—that is all.; It had to bo remembered that Erglisk and Scottish people were dealing with an entirely different soil, climate, and market' from Now Zealand farmers, and hence the different system of farming. The ordinary high schools in tho Old Country did not touch upon agricultural training at all. thero being 1 special agricultural colleges for that purpose. When a lad ranched 14 years of age ho was educated in botany, chemistry, and other sciences which would prepare him for Lis training at tho agricultural school, which he enteral fit the ago of 18 years, > (
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15519, 29 January 1914, Page 10
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