Show STUDENT LIFE 50 industry where trained “farmers” are needed offer similar opportunities It appears to be the case of ten jobs to one trained man The question arises as to why so few young men take up this line of work In the first place there is a in agricultural colleges is that it means that a young fellow will be compelled in after life to follow the plow and pitch hay This view is also erroneous as is proven by surprising that this idea is abroad and is accepted by some educated people To those who are familiar with agricultural training it will appear ludicrous as they are aware that a proper course involves the most technical and scientific work that can be given in a class the fact that positions which do not involve manual work of the farm are crying for agricultural graduates to fill them Some farmers object to their boys taking agriculture because it takes the boy away from the farm as quickly as a course in arts does and he does not stay at home to apply his newly acquired knowledge Just so long as there are not enough competent men to fill positions as experts and teachers of agriculture just so long will the boy take his learning toa better market where the highest price is paid for it and the farm is left behind But send enough youngsters to fill these positions through an agricultural school then the graduate will return to the country and it will not be manv months before the “old farm” will show the effects of somebody’s four year course in a college or a “prep” This wrong view of agricultural training prevents many young men from entering a field of profitable labor merely Ixrcatise of their false pride The man who successfully studies the methods of proper farming must possess as fine a brain as the engineer doctor or lawyer It takes “grinding” to obtain the cardinal principles and “head work” to apply them Another objection to the study of nature and her products as given But it is added that as soon as the government positions are all filled and teachers of this subject are no longer in active demand the young agricultural graduates will be forced to the country What of it? It will be a glorious state of affairs when a country can boast that a majority of its farmers are college men Then will come the time when farm life will not be a dull grind of pitching hay and feeding swine misconception as to what an agricultural course consists of Manv people have the idea that the fellow who should take agriculture is one whose intellect is impaired to the extent that he can study nothing else that the study of agriculture involves no hard “digging” and it consists merely of listening daily to a dull old professor deliver the same kind of a lecture on the proper method of milking a cow or the correct position of holding a hay fork It room is as well as practical work school |