Show Student Life relation of the scientific agriculturist There are two courses open to him when he is graduated: he may enter the ranks of the teachers and reseach men or he may go back to the farm At present the number choosing either course probably about equals those taking the other It varies in different states So far in Utah most of the graduates have become teachers or research men In Kansas on the other hand about eighty per cent of the three or four score of graduates in agriculture each year return to the farm A large number of the men who return to the farm become farm superintendents There are always gcod openings in this work The foi men fitted fcr the places Wisconsin Agricultural College had one hundred eighty inquiries for graduates in agriculture in 1907 These men were wanted as farm Of course the superintendents demand exceeded the supply Whether the graduate returns to the farm depends largely upon his temperament If he has a liking for experimental wrork and if research is fascinating to him he is likely to take a position with an experiment station or with the National Department Neither of these institutions provides the financial remuneration that the practice of scientific agriculture does The 29 graduate in agriculture who is inclined to emphasize the financial side of the question should get on a farm and begin his operations at The raising of pure bred live stock and plant products of various kinds offers a field to him that will in a few years if he apply the knowledge his study has given him give him financial returns that are beyond the dreams of any research man Both lines offer encouraging inducements in one or The research man more respects is likely to be isolated from his friends a large part of the time and his pay is never large but he has the enjoyment that comes from working with educated thinking people he is likely to get some travel a fair amount of leisure time in which he can study and he comes in contact more or less with the thinkers and leading people of the world The farmer if he be successful can get most of these advantages in time ‘but he probably has less of them than the pi man has He has however the satisfaction that comes from a comparatively large financial remuneration and from being entirely one’s “own boss’’ besides he can enjoy the benefits of active citizenship to a much higher degree than can the professional worker Intrinsically neither line once |