DOMINION FARM METHODS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18756, 9 July 1924, Page 13

DOMINION FARM METHODS.

IMPOVERISHING THE SOIL

MORE TEACHING REQUIRED.

BY TELEG3IAPH. —OWK CORRESPONDED

WELLINGTON. Tuesday. "Many farmers in the North Island are not farmers at all. They get the very most out of their land but do not pnt anything back with the result that the laDd in time becomes barren." These remarks were made yesterday to the Auckland Education Board by Mr. Harold W. Hesse, senior instructor in agriculture, who is on a short visit to Wellington. " Farmine in this country can onlv be

put on a sound footing by a permanent progressive and productive policy,", said Mr. Hesse. " The New Zealand farmers, especially in the North Island, require a greater agricultural knowledge. In many cases fanners work on the policy of 'God and the rain,' but this as not as it should be. I believe in educating men for farm work. At the present time wo have in New Zealand primary, secondary and tertiary courses, but a university course is greatly needed. " I would like to sec the American policy of agricultural education adopted in this country. Every boy there, no matter where he lives, is given a chance to gain a high agricultural education, and 87 per cent, who graduate through ibe I universities return to the land. The j other 13 per cent, go in fox agricultural i teaching.