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Show EARNED $1,866 BY GOING TO COLLEGE A man who opposed his son's do-slro do-slro to go to an-agrlcultural collego says In tho November Farm and Fireside: Fire-side: "I know how It has boon in my own family. Jim was ambitious to go to tho agricultural collego, and I was perfectly willing; but I wanted want-ed to try him out, so for a tlmo I protondod to be opposed to It. My Idea was to mako him earn his way. Ho did It, too paying for his board by waiting on tablu at tho mess hall and for his room by taking caro of the furnace n tho prlvato house whero he lived, and doing chores. The result was that his education really cost an average of $250 a. K year for four years, or $1,000 alto" UV gether. Let mo 'show you some ot the results In dollars and cents. t "A part of our farm land was extremely low, subject to overflow i every spring; some of it was under un-der water practically all the year around. I had it drained, and found the investment a good one. But I would never havo Increased tho yield as it has been increased if it had , not been for Jim. He took a sampla ;' of tho soil to college with, him ona s year .and tested It. Ho found It to . ' 1 be lacking in potash. I had been ' opposed to commercial fertilizers all ,;' my lite, but Jim was so In earnest L about It that I let him tako a try. "That was last year. The year jj before my corn ran 35 bushels to the A acre; it sold for 50 cents, a total ot 'jm $17.50 to tho acre. Jim applied 9 murlato ot potash (I'll admit I had 1 never heard of It until he told me " H about It and read me a lot out of B ono of his text books) Just botoro the B last cultivation of tho ground be- fl fore planting, and that year wo got I 65 bushels ot corn oft the very fields I which had run 35 bushels the year before Part of that corn ,wo sold I last fall for 80 conts n bushel; part ot It wo carried over ntll this spring and sold for $2 a bushel. I I guess It would bo fair to say that wo averaged $1.25 a bushel. The 30 bushel bu-shel lncroaso meant $37.50 an acre. Tho fertilizer cost us $6.39 an acre. Hero was a clear gain, in ono year, ot $31.11 an acre, or $1,866.60 on tho 60 acres. o |