INSTRUCTION IN AGRICULTURE.
Recently the Southland Education Board decided to add elementary agriculture to the list of subjects to be taught during school hours in schools where such classes can be efficiently conducted. The work undertaken by pupils in Standards IV, V, and VI, will be somewhat on the following lines:—(l) Principles of tillage and source composition and use of fertilisers; (2) propagation of apple, pear, plum, peach, apricot, and rose stocks; (3) grafting, budding, and layering ; (4) rotation of crops; (5) grasses; (6) grain kinds best suited to different soils. In a circular to the committees, the director of technical education (Mr W. A. M'Caw) states that nursery and orchard work will form a special feature of the instruction. In e lcli school garden there will be established a nursery, in which all stocks worked by pupils will become their own property, to be removed each season to their home gardens.
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Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 184, 31 January 1913, Page 4
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