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Show COLLEGE MEN FOR THE FARM. Result of Change In Economic- and Social Conditions. Tho character ot farming is chung ing rapidly. It Is coming more and more to bo an efficient, profitable and attractlvo business. W!th; hero and there un exception. In tho past wo l.tf.o not git en much couaecutlvo t.iuusht to tho business nothing llko as much ns tho metchnnt gives to his business or t.io ilcclor to his. It hn3 been so "easy" ;t business that untrained un-trained men co-uld succeed in it. Tho ciiango In economic nnd zcfclal conditions condi-tions Is breaking up tho tradition. Ka.-mlns is bacomlns moro dllHcult, aac he alii cmthtJa must go. In tho futu.e cu) the wri: !r.formuJ and efil-clc efil-clc it-thhiKia r, man can succeed; that Is, only the cdr.catcJ man. Tito country Is to offer other ndv'an-tn;io3 ndv'an-tn;io3 to the educated man than merely mere-ly to bo a good farmer. Thero aro good opportunities for leadership on public questions probably xbattor opportunity op-portunity and with les3 competition than In tho great cities. Tho fact that city representation Is increasing In tho legislatures should mako tho able country representative more of n mnikcd man. The growth of tho Institute Insti-tute movement, of tho grango and other oth-er rural organizations, gives fresh opportunity op-portunity to develop leadership of a high order. It would seem that, by tho naturo of tho progress wo aro making, tho collcgo man must go to tho farm. In: fact, collcgo men havo boon-going back from tho beginning of tho agrl-cultuial agrl-cultuial education movement. Statistics Statis-tics show that a largo percentage actually havo returned to farming, and this In splto of tho fact that cities havo been growing with marvelous marvel-ous rapidity, and that tho whole system sys-tem of r.;rrlcultural colleges and experiment ex-periment stations has boon developing and calling tor men. Considering tho limitations under which tho agricultural agricul-tural colleges have developed, without sympathy, with tho Indlltetcnco nnd sometimes tho opposition of oducators tho men who 3hould havo known better with whclly inadequnto funds, it Is llttlo loss than marvelous what they havo Hcccmrlhihcd within a generation. gen-eration. It la probable that tho pro-.portion pro-.portion of stfu! "Us of tho leading agricultural ag-ricultural eclh gea, who now engage In agricultural iu: suits, Is greater than students of that of colleges of law or of ether profeasljual colleges who follow fol-low tholr citoscn profession. No ono now questions tho value of education to a lawyer or physician; why question its value to a farmer? The educated man will go back lo tho farm If he Is fitted to ho a farmer. Scrlbncr's Magazine. |