lo Dec, 191 



Report oil LciiHi^af //(I Labour Colt 



735 



the value of their work is only a fractional part of what one would 

 expect from the number, considerable difficulty being experienced in 

 some cases in sretting any returns Mt all. The absence of competent 



OATS, PEAS, AND liEAXS FOR SILA(iK. 



men to carry out the dififerent branches of farming operations has 

 been a severe handicap in the past. This difficulty has now to a great 

 extent been overcome by the decision of the Trustees to permit of the 



engagement of a permanent farm hand. Ample evidence of the 

 value of this departure is apparent on the farm to-day in the shape 

 of advanced growing crops and thorough cultivation of the soil, in 



