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Show )!.'' Farming A Science. - Secretary WilSon Advises Young Men to Study Agri- ' culture. -; J ," Seciotniy of Agriculturo Wilson to- day in his speech boforo the Stake , County Agricultural society . advising tlio young men ot the nation to make a I 8tudy of agriculture. i , Ho said tlint half tlio boys of to-day would bo the farmers of tlio next gen- . crntion nnd that funning hud developed f into n eclence, of which its experts should bo proud. Ho ndvocatcd the scientific teachings of tho dally discov-f discov-f cries that aia boitig made, nnd said that no college is complete which has not a branch devoted to this most worthy profession. 1- FAnMEUGKTSfiG.UODA YEAR. f-. ' "An American eductaed along ogii- jj cultural lines," snld the Sccietery. ("has just gone to Queensland for live years to org.inlzo work along producing lines at a salary of $ 13,000 n year, and I know whero such n fanner is wanted at $3,000 salary in ono of our now islands. f "I know whore ono I wanted in ' Africa at u higher sulaiy, and there In a r demand in our own eiuniiy for eueh educated men." The young men whoso life woik would be in tlio ngiiculttirul districts, , ho said, would more generally attend echcols where, tliey could lenrn w'.iai r would be of practical beutlt to tln-ru ' in their work. |