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Show IS LEARNING FARMING 1 JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON STUDYING AGRICULTURE. Young Millionaire Socialist of Chicago a Student at Wisconsin University Univer-sity Plans to Run a Model Dairy. Madison, Wis. Thoro camo to tho Wisconsin stato university last fall a young man who told tho professors that ho wanted to learn how to milk a cow and plow and sow and mix bran-mash for hogs ho wanted to learn to bo a farmer. This wan nothing extraordinary, bo-cauBO bo-cauBO thoro aro sovoral hundreds of farmers' sons thcro now taking tho co'urso In ngrlculturo. Vory many of them nro earning their own way. But when tho nowcomer gavo his namo sven the staid professors who teach tho rotation of crops nnd tho methods of preparing ensilage were surprised. Tho now student didn't need to learn how to work. Ho Is n millionaire million-aire and hns nn Incomo now ot $50,000 a year, with moro to como. His name Is Joseph Medlll Patterson, Yalo graduate, grad-uate, who Intends to llvo what ho calls 'the honest life," desplto his fortune and his expectations. Ho means to do his share of, tho everyday labors of men less fortunate than ho. His golf clubs aro loft to grow rusty In their bag. His automobile has been disposed of. Society is a closed book now. What ho purposes to do Is to establish es-tablish a model dairy on a largo farm near Chicago. Ho expects to supply high-class dairy products to tho sick and ailing. To begin with, ho is living tho simple sim-ple life. He took his family to Madison, Madi-son, and they havo taken an eight-room eight-room cottago near tho university. Any :nrpcnter or dairyman could well afford af-ford to llvo in it. Four or flvo times a day tho young man walks over from his modest homo to bis dairy work at tho university. Tho household consists ot Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, their two baby girls und two maids. What littlo leisure tho young man cnJoyB Is spent at homo, playing with his babies or rending. rend-ing. Occasionally ho finds tlmo to write tor tho socialistic press. For these articles ho refuses pay, but when ho writes for tho overy-day magazines ho demands tho regular rccompenso that would go to any writer. Just now Mr. Patterson Is working so hard over tho problems' of scientific dairying and up-to-dato agriculture that ho hasn't had any tlmo to wrlto about his socialistic Ideas. Tho course he Is taking Is arranged for two years, each term lasting four months. Tho other eight months of tho year aro spent In practical work on the farm. Mr. Pattorson thinks ho can get all ho needs In ono year. I Dean W, A. Henry has arranged a special courso for him, and It requires 36 hours n week, Tho UBtinl course ,4 takes only about halt as many hours, 4 Tho studies includo tho valuo of dlt- fercnt feeds for livestock, dairying, I livestock judging, plant life, soils, so- lection ot seeds, agricultural engineer , lng, vctorlnnry science, farm median- 1 lea and similar subjects. 3 Tho young millionaire pays a tul- 1 tlon tec ot $42.75, ot which $35 Is be- j cause ho Is not a resident ot Wlscon- sin, seven dollars for general lncldon- tal purposes and 75 cents for tho prlv. y lieges of tho general gymnasium, tlo '4 Is regarded by tho faculty aa an oxcop- ''j, tlonnlly good studoivt and by his fel- low students as an agrccablo assocl- ato. ! Fow ot tho latter, howovor, really j know who ho Is becauso of tbo short j tlmo ho has been at tho university J08EPH M. PATTER80N. (Millionaire Socialist Who Is 8tudylnq to Be a Farmer.) and bccatiBo ot his rathor retiring disposition. dis-position. Ho mingles freely with th 3,000 students in tho institution, meet lng many of them on tho campus, in class-room, at tho gymnasium and libraries. Mr. Puttorson hns bought a farm ot 220 acres at Llbertyvlllo, HI., 35 mllei northwest ot Chicago, and will make his future homo thoro. Ho Is building a now houso and a numbor of stock ; barns on it, and intends to stock It , with thoroughbreds and make It s j model farm In all respects. Mr. Patterson's father Is Robert W Patterson, editor ot tho Chlca go Tribune, a graduate of Wll- ! Hams, und a son of tho lato Rev. R ,' ! W. Patterson. His mother is a daugh tcr ot tho luto Joseph Medlll, one oi j tho founders of tho Chicago Tribune. Young Patterson was odltor-in-chlcf ol ) tho Trlbuno during tho ubsenca ot hli j fathor In Europo In tho fall ot 1904. g |