AGRICULTURAL COURSES FOR FARMERS’ SONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20337, 20 February 1928, Page 12

AGRICULTURAL COURSES FOR FARMERS’ SONS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sin, —In tho provincial news page last Thursday your Gore correspondent shed a lot of light on the subject of agricultural courses at high schools in country districts. In Gore, a more important agricultural centre than Balelutha, the agricultural course at the high school could attract only eight pupils, and we aro told that fanners —the real variety, that is—very sensibly believe that their sons can ho taught all of agriculture necessary on the farm, and when at high school want to acquire knowledge pf olher things. Surely this is a most effective answer to those “ friends of the farmer ” and half-baked •agriculturists who wished to force an agncultural course on to the directors f the Chitlin High School, Those people may possess a nodding acquaintance with agriculture, but tho fact remains that they arc careful at the first opportunity to eschew the actual practice of farming, while imagining that they are qualified to “ teach (heir grandmothers to suck eggs.” Like (lie advocates of daylight saving for tho farmer, they aro strong on precept, but weak in practice. It would bo interesting to observe how,some of these gentry would perform in the milking byre under summer (.line. They would prohablv shed a good deal of their 'theory regarding “(ho other fellowjl’ in practical profanity at their own miserable fate.—l am etc., Less Eyewash. Balelutha, February 13.