Our Tour.The Final Year B.Sc.Ag.,students were taken on an Agricultural Tour for 10days from 2nd to 13th October.The Lecturer in Botany and two Assitant Lecturers accompanying them.Thae party first proceeded to Aduthurai wre warmly welcomed by the Superintent and staff of the station.The party went round the station observing the various lines of work in progress at the station.The superintent explaining the students the various aspects of work including the trials with the sorghumcane hybrids. soya beans,pillipes.ara for green etc.They were also told about the relative importance of several various agricultural practices of the tract with regard to paddy cultivation.The party was latr entertained at Tea by the Station Staff and left for Tanjore the same evening.The party then proceeded to Thillastanam and Trivadi where they were shown by the Tanjore Demonstrator some of the plantain and betel vine garden and the methods of cultivation explained,After studying the agricultural practices of the places visited the party took the opportunity to see the local Manfir where the stattue of Saint Thyagaraya is situated and the sanskrit college situated on the banks of the Cauvery.On their return from Trivadi the students played a Hockey March with the Tanjore United Club team.The play was appreciated thoughour student lost the match by 2 goals to one. Early the next day the party visited Payyukotai and had a through study of the areas to be brought under the Mettur project.By the morning of the next day the party reached Trichinopoly Town and visited the Grand anicut and the trial plots run by the Lalgudi Sivagnnanam Society,the Deputy Director of Agriculture Mr.Kolandaisami Pillai accompanying the students.Mr.Pillai had arranged for a sumptuous tea at the Grand Anicut and also gave an address to the students advising them to take up private farming.He explained how he has been trying to solve the unemployem ent prob- lem by obtaining free of cost 50acres waste lands situated in the Perambalur Taluk to each one of the gra- duates of of the College at a nominal rate of R.1...........Page Nil.
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