FARM SCHOOL WEEK

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14263, 14 January 1920, Page 5

FARM SCHOOL WEEK

INSTRUCTION FOR TEACHERS. SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. So.successful did the week’s farm school for teachers, held at Ruakura in the last two successive years prove, that “teachers’ farm school week” now promises to become a permanent institution. It is recognised that while merely casual visits to the farm are useful from a spectacular point of view, and where definite information is sought in some particular point, that they cannot possibly give tiie benefits that a period of several days’ residence on the place, with a set curriculum can. While, of 'course, ordinary school teachers are not expected to have a profound knowledge of agriculture, it is yet necessary, especially in a farming country, such as New Zealand, that they should have definite and full information upon certain agricultural fundamentals and the experiment of a teachers’ farm school week, has already reflected its value. It : s to be repeated again this year, and from the 26th to the 31st inst. about 70 teachers from different parts of the Auckland province will be in residence at the Farm.

Mr J. P. Kalaughcr, Supervisor for the Auckland Education Board, under whose direction the class will be conducted, visited Ruakura yesterday to arrange with Mr A. W. Green, the manager, matters in connection with the school. Lectures and demonstrations will be given throughout the week by officers of the Department of Agriculture and by the Education Board's instructoi's in Agriculture. The names of the lecturers are Messrs A. W. Green, manager:; A. B. Trythall, apiarist; T. B. Roach, horticulturist of the Ruakura staff; F. Brown, chief poultry instructor; G. M. Valentine and W. Dempster, dairy instructors; —. Burton, M.R.C.V.S.; D. Miller, entomologist; E. Bruce Levy, assistant biologist; T. H. Patterson, instructor Department of Agriculture; Dr J. W. Mcllraith and A. N. Burns, 8.A., inspectors of schools; F. R. Callaghan, M.A., W. Hudson, J. J. Stevenson and D. Freeman, Pti.D., instructors of agriculture. '