FARMERS’ STUDENT TRAVELS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8750, 4 June 1914, Page 11

FARMERS’ STUDENT TRAVELS

AFRICANS VISIT CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

(Prom Our, Own Correspondent.) . SAN FRANCISCO, May 12. Preparation* are already being made by the College of Agriculture of the University Of California at Berkeley, i for the recaption of the delegation of fifty farmers from the agricultural unions of South Africa. The understanding is that while in California i particular attention i» to .be paid to 'irrigation project* and problems, and to the' culture of oitrua fruit. • The delegates come from the Cape, the Transvaal, Natal, Orange Free State, and Rhodesia* and are to leave igouth Africa for England on June 6th. Spending some time in England and Holland, they should bo in Canada about August Ist, and are to enter the United States about Septeta(bar let, ot Vancouver. Their Investigations in "Washington and Oregon are to be directed to’ apple-growing in the district* that hare become world famous. Tho delegation will spend about six weeks in the United States, giving their attention solely to American methods of growing and marketing present or potential crops of South Africa. The president of the tour is Mr J* A. Neser, member of Parliament, and also head of the Dry Farming Congress, of South Africa, The tour i* certain to attract much notice in the United States.. The foljlowing named cities are already designated as route stepping places: Vancouver and Seattle, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Sacramento, San Franoisw, Berkeley and Riverside, Cal*; Salt Lake City, Utah; Minneapolis, Minn,*; (Madison, Wis.; Chicago, III.; Lexingiten, Ky. Atlanta, Ga.; Washington, jD.O*! Ithaca, N.Y., and New York 'City. It will he noticed that this itinerary gives the delegates the opportunity to visit three of the famous (dgricultural schools of the United .States, at Berkeley, Madison, and ■lthaca. - •