YOUNG FARMERS' CLUBS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22724, 10 May 1937, Page 16

YOUNG FARMERS' CLUBS

AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION WINTER SCHOOLS ARRANGED [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Sunday To further the development of Young Farmers' Club)? in the Auckland Province, a winter farm school is being held in June at the Ruakura Farm of Instruction, Hamilton. Students will assemble on Monday, June 21, and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday wiil be devoted to lectures, demonstrations, and visits to freezing works and farms. The course of instruction will embrace lectures and demonstrations on pig-keeping, pasture production, farm shelter, and other branches of farm development. The Young Farmers' Club movement lias made very rapid progress. There are in New Zealand about 120 individual Young Farmers' Clubs, with a total membership of approximately 3000 young men up to 26 years of age, the numbers being about equally divided between the two islands. It is the endeavour of the Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs to establish a chain of these clubs from one end of the Dominion to the other. Winter courses of instruction are being held at various centres throughout the Dominion. The winter farm school at Ruakura will serve the Auckland clubs, and a party of about 40 members of clubs in the Bay of Plenty area will travel through the Waikato, Taranaki, Manawatu, Wairarapa, and Hawke's Bav districts.

In Manawatu an agricultural week is being held in Palmerston North from July 5 to July 10, and it is anticipated that about 300 members will attend. Similar agricultural weeks are being arranged in other centres. At Nelson College during May and at the Waitaki High School, North Otago, parties of between 60 and 100 members will be accommodated for a week during the college vacation.