YOUNG FARMERS’ CLUBS.

Southland Times, Issue 23793, 15 April 1939, Page 8

YOUNG FARMERS’ CLUBS.

THREEDAYS COURSE AT GORE PROGRAMME FOR NEXT WEEK

Seventy members of Young Farmers’ Clubs in Otago and Southland are expected to attend a three-days agricultural instruction course which will be held at Gore next week. A very full programme has been drawn up for the course and the young farmers will have the benefit of demonstrations and addresses by leading authorities on a wide variety of subjects. At the opening ceremony at the Returned Soldiers’ Association’s social hall on Tuesday morning, Mr W. R. Harris, of Invercargill, vice-chairman of the Otago and Southland district council, will preside. Welcomes will be given by the president of the council (Mr A. C. Cameron, of Dunedin), the Mayor (Mr A. T. Newman), the president of the Southland executive of the Farmers’ Union (Mr A. R. Johnston), the president of the Women’s Division (Mrs W. Orr), the president of the Gore subexecutive (Mr J. Stewart), the president of the Gore sub-executive of the Women’s Division (Mrs J. Stewart), the fields superintendent of the Department of Agriculture for Otago and Southland (Mr J. M. Smith), the president of the Gore Agricultural and Pastoral Association (Mr James Drysdale) and representatives of other organizations.

Later in the morning demonstrations will be given at the show grounds on Clydesdale horses by Mr D. Caldwell, of Edendale, and on the handling and roping of horses by Mr T. A. Barclay, of Wendon. A talk on hereditary disease will be given by Mr A. G. Brash, of

Invercargill. In the afternoon a visit will be paid to the Creamoata mills, followed by a lantern lecture on identification of grasses by Mr Saxby, of the Department of Agriculture, Dun- ■ edin, and films of the scenic wonders of New Zealand shown by Mr B. N. Challis, of Invercargill. Further films will be shown by the Department of Agriculture in the evening. On Wednesday, the party will visit the farm of Mr C. W. Tripp at Kaiwera where demonstrations will be given by Mr Saxby and Mr David Marshall, of Invercargill. This will’ be followed by a visit to Mr W. Y. Dickie’s farm at Tuturau. The Mataura paper mills will be visited also. In the evening an address will be given by Mr E. R. Hudson, director of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln. On the final day of the course an address will be given by Dr F. W. Hilgendorf on wheat and its products. Visits will be paid to Pyramid and Knapdale for demonstrations on ploughing and plough setting and farm shelter. Mr J. M. Smith will give an address on winter. feeding of stock. The course will con-1 elude with a social and dance.. 1