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Show SPLENDID OPPORTUNITIES. The Inter-Mountain Iirmer and Ilanclinnn calls the nttentlon of tlteh boys to the silendlt opportunities open to thotM who will leeome trilned In the science of asTlculture and nnl-tnnl nnl-tnnl Industi). Not onl) In Utah wlere the renl need of science In furm-ln furm-ln li Just beginning to be felt but all over Ihe United stiles and Canada there l a giotvlug demand for oung men skilled In agriculture Or True director of experiment slutlons for the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, toll the writer last spring that there were not enough available grudu ates of agricultural enlleges In the laiintrv to fill the position In the de-lurtment de-lurtment and It had bernme neeessar) lo go outside the list of arrlculturnl gradilitea nnd employ soung men from other scientific sihools This enmo truth 1 strongly emphasized b) Prof 'Ihomas U Hunt of the Ohio College of Agriculture who sa)a ' Since Jununr) 1 110J the College of Agriculture has rerclvel letters from more than 125 persona flrma onl Institution, Insti-tution, wishing to eniplov men who have hud an agricultural tinlning During the same time forty of Its former for-mer students have obtained cniplos-mont cniplos-mont 'As nn lllustr-itlon of npld advancement advance-ment It mnv le atoted that six agrl-eultural agrl-eultural student of the class of noo went to work along Hues fnr which the) were trnlned At present not one receives less thin $lodO a eui nnd several nro receiving $1201) per annum. an-num. During the past few weeks two graduates ot this college have heeu elected to profestoishlpa In other colleges col-leges one to the c hair ot agriculture at $l0O nnd one to the chair of forestry for-estry ut $1M0 One graduate refuse t to consider a professorship In agriculture agricul-ture at $2600 because nf pi cent engagements en-gagements and n former Instructor of this Institution has Just been dieted dean and dlieclor of a collego of agriculture agri-culture nt $3nOO a scar nnd house 'The president and tno members of the board of trustees of a M cstern ag rlcultiiral lollege spent several da)s recenll) In search of a professor of agriculture ag-riculture at the graduate school of agriculture ag-riculture ut Columbus where aeventy-five aeventy-five studenta were assembled from tvvent) -eight different Mates Including Includ-ing some of the leading agricultural Instructors In-structors The) asked several men to consider the place but weie refused nt least 111 all cares that came tn the writers attention This Is stated here nierel) to show that the number of men peeking positions ln this field Is limited ' There are, at the present time to the writers knowledge, four positions open In horticulture but apparently no avell nuallllecl man Is ready to accept ac-cept them 'The methol of the Department nf Agriculture at Washington, DC, to employ the graduates nf agricultural cnlleges aa scientific aids gives jnung men great opportunlt) for Improvement Improve-ment and ndvunc'einent for example, one nf oiu gra luates accepted such a position In the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture it $21 per ,111011th on January 1, 1101 On April 1, 1101 he ndvnnced to $10 per month on July 1, 1101 to $1000 n sear and on prll 1 1902 to $1200 This soung man Inspects soils In different parts of the United States i ml has In ad tltlon to his salary, all his expenses paid Including subsistence subsist-ence Light students of the college nf agriculture nnd domestic science are at piepnt emplosed In tho Department of Agriculture n Washington D C Of course there arc representatives from man) other Institutions ' hat has been written bus not been foi the purpose nf tnnklnr comparisons with other Institutions but tn show that there Is an abundant opportunity for joung men propeil) trained to succeed suc-ceed In the llel I of scientific ne-ilcullure whether they are trilned In the college of agriculture and dn. mestic silence of the Ohio State Unl-veiisit) Unl-veiisit) or some other agricultural col-lege col-lege Ihnnias 1 Hunt Ohio btnto I Diversity |