Show BACK TO L FARM XI rural education the agricultural college by C V y El copyright IW 1910 by american Amerl cin pro press asso elation lation I 1 N ISM on gresa passed a taw law appropriating IN money for the establishment lish ment ot of colleges of agrical ture and mechanic arts today there are sixty seven euch such institutions in the th 0 united beates the establish ment of the agricultural colleges col legee open ed up an u entirely cow dow field of alon the study of science and the application of that science to the problem of everyday life began to take the place of the tudy study of classics elu edu eating a man merely to have him edu bated began to LO g out c style and the truer mier education that better fits tits a man to tackle the problems of life took its place the growth of the agricultural col leg begea was as slow at dirst and not until within the ant tift fifteen epil yeara years bre b re they Z i r 4 r FARM AT aa A agall lOLL KOK itally cot come lle t to till the place for which des they were designed J aled vt first the ide kilei i of a was as laughable to mail I e pie who rejoiced rejo icid in n lit tie h eiruing even the firmer him self did not realize the advantage of a college to 11 man who ho must maev it thing allt ing from the soil it took good many lepirs 3 ears to bring people to i alize that college education Is as val bable for a farmer as for a doctor or a lawyer rhe main difference Is that the law compels a man tc it get a col lege diploma before he starts to t 0 alc tlc tice medicine while he may at start art farming with nothing but a team and a plow even at the art sent time there are many men both on the farm and I 1 in n the cities i who doubt the value of a college education for the far farmer nier makiv a farm farn boy Is squarely con front fronted d with the problem of or shooting choo ting between n four yeara years in college or L start ing to tn farm at once four yeara 14 1 4 n long time to a young foxing man I 1 fifteen I 1 hundred to Is a I 1 irge sum of mont mono to him litin to 10 buind both for a at college requires 4 a mitt of courage and ani faith falth in tin the future the tile mait of money to pay four it in college will ellabee the boun man to fanning farm illa on a rented firm f irin the four avem vem will tit if ir tic tie 1 ludu triou 4 ap him to earn to a fwd 21 1 oil n birin nf of li ilia 11 ll if hf joea to olic mt lie ile will 1011 hap nothing it at th tho ind ad nf or tin tile four aar but tile exler lence mil all knon hilge he hn IR gallud there 1 11 it tit I 1 have put this kurtly I 1 u t rc IF to doz d za iia of inen tile in their lat la t itar jt at an iii cultural rosiee C khoat ex cemian tile mv ply tint thit it 14 1 4 worth orth the autin if 1 not ot one the time tinie or ir the til bonev which filch te 1111 lir terca for hl ducat oil I 1 low am of tl it t in placed it on in a roone bisic but eatn iron that standpoint they cin ci lint that the chance ch aiKe 4 were rp in fur nf of I 1 the he alft ce in nn inin in tin tit tv nov v ho farming for hills alf if without any education will nill run up tip gigant a good rood many kruig mg aich the col collese leize min will ill lie ile will it I 1 learn ly by P earl p C rickee nce many of th ill things thing which the th ollege college mm min lam lull in o 0 k hoot hool la in doing eo go he will pay much dearer darer for hai hl kno wa et I 1 g P T the 11 e old ad a dinst book firmine firm lne I 1 fast veople are c ln inn 0 that bholi farilla fr Milli lu Is I 1 tely the th rum ru fu cd M of far everywhere every ex 1 I and illumined by the tb light of science probably in no tio one respect Is 14 1 4 the adan las age nf of the college man more clearl arpa reut than in 10 the case of moll ler fer bilty IDU lon I DU after the untrained man lia 11 begun to notice and wonder onder at the decline of hn 1 crop yields the man who A iian studied the science of oil soil fertility win ill be tk raisins uli diminished crol croix the art of keeping leeping up the eoll soil fertility cannot ile learned from the neighbors for they have not it 11 it cannot be learned f from rum father or grandfather for in their d ay iy the fertility of the roti soil wa was con Ilder pil inexhaustible the of the col lege graduate cannot be mea measured ared in miller alon alone the agricultural corn leader leaders muc much need jirl just now aeed men who cau can more dan aliey simply make money on their own faros farms it la is necessary for or the agri cultural college graduate to succeed on of course ills every own farm arm watched by JI wo move e ta Is closely neighbors kven even the shadow of a 11 failure starts a chorus of I 1 lold told you KU so success on his tits own farm Is the erst e essential to the young man who would be a leader given aven that for backing he can do almost anything he be wants to with his community banners have a vast ast deal of respect tor for the man who can do things prejudice against college arming farming Is lost in ad mi ration for the results achieved by the college farmer it if be advises or gan izing a club they are willing to join in and help if be tells them the school needs reorganizing they are willing to be convinced they nay may evou consent to bringing two or t three bree schools together and using the money saved to hire better teachers the in ot of one mans success and the energy imparted by him la Is sudI sufficient clent to start a whole community to thinking once you git a man min to thinking there Is no need to worry orry further about him hial tie ile will III take care of himself if an energetic young farmer with an agricultural education could be placed in each township throughout the farming sections the results would be an enlightened agriculture that would be the envy of 0 the whole world orld A leading educator recently made the statement that three lle agricultural college graduates could in ten kars I 1 create the alue alue of the land in my iny agricultural county 0 per acie acte that sounds la incredible credible but it Is literally tr true ue the community would become so i regressive that it would be worth 20 an acre more to live fire there the charge has been made that ag ri cultural college graduate 3 do not go hack back to tho th farm th facts do not alitar out this assertion IN bile the it Is in safe to say that fully 50 per cent of the graduates go directly to the farm the others go into some work 41 closely esely related to f firming inning in my acquaintance with joung men jut just finishing college I 1 h 1 te known of very fw f w who were not to po to farming k good any of tham m to 1 not do so because of lick ilick of thy have spent all their moncy bont in college nud and it loo looks to th thin m like uphill business to start farming fa iNith without out a cent they are omra helmed with offers u of salaried I 1 nt at sil wil arlos arles of fro from m 1000 1 to IP 2000 a sear jear to start alth ith luperi I 1 ment station 4 agricultural colleg eg papers and of agricultural products are all looking f for 0 r ag college graduates graduate 11 my of the men go into some work of this kind until they can save money donough to start farming of the college graduates who do take up farming as a business the greater number rent the home farm or r go into partnership with their re fathers this IR 1 the ideal w way ay for a n young man to get a start under uch ruch favorable cIrcum circumstance stanceR he cannot help but mcdeed often however there are enough brothers at home to occupy all the land the young Y 01 inz college farmer must look elsewhere a for a job joi every year the agri cultural colleges are receiving a larger number of calls for farm managers many stany of these offers are exceedingly liberal they come tor for the most part from farmers who ho wish to retire from active work and nt at the same time do not wish to sell or rent their f farms arms they are often willing to take the right sort of a young man in on a I ITI jre nr or aira him hin n ler ter t 0 saw am k at to TO TIM 40 of OV altage of the 1 net profits k II tion or of all t kind 11 1 the neu next lt best thing K to farn mth till ur ugh 11 an tin agricultural coil culle cd ed matlon 14 1 of great value it nun rot not bo bp taken firt fam in what hat I 1 have said tha that without mich an education 1 impossible man farmer boys are not for an u education of this kind eit hahr ht r by temperament or ability sinny sla others rs are eo so situated that at they annot be away from borne home for four tour rears ran stil still other others do not have tile h tw for theae boys an 1 ollege 10 14 catl an impossibility ro teach the about their asri other form of aduca lot 15 this Is sha ed by the secondary schools sup the ork of there schools will 1111 be n the next articie |