TRAIN THE FARMER

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 4

TRAIN THE FARMER

IN TUB SCHOOL. Tho great fault in our schools, said ■Mr Mills to u fanners’ audience at New Plymouth, was Hint ns noog as boys got to school they wore trained to leave their hoines and seek opportunities abroad. Then, when the Government required experts it had to import thorn. Agriculture did not enter sufficiently into tho educational syllabus. Every day it was Int-oniing more and more imperative that tho tanner must be a trained man. lie must bo able, for instance, to put in nn electrical plant, of his own and keep it in repair himself. In these ways would tho service of tho fanner 'be brought into the position of n professional man. Farming, when properly carried on, would bo a mental service, a social service a service of training and capacity. (Applause.; New Zealand has a greater opportunity than any other country on the face of the earth, said the speaker. If she has w. greater opportunity sho has a more serious responsibility than any other country. There is’no place on the earth whoro doinrr tho right thing will be so isasy; no place where you aro so near the place you ought to bo than here. The opportunity is greater, but tho responsibility similarly so.