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Show GOOD DEMAND FOR FARMERS Important Message Sent to Boys Who Are Now Considering Question of Future Occupations. The announcement by the director -of public welfare that the city has a Job paying $2,000 a year, with a good home and board thrown In, for which no qualified aprllcant has yot offered himself, Is more significant than It Is novel. The unfilled place is that of manarer of the olty'B 1,100-acre farm at Warrensville. The successful applicant. appli-cant. It is Bald, need not be a resident of the city or state, but must be an able farmer, having an agricultural college education, practical experience In farming and business knowledge qualifying him to get results from the city's large investment. , The persons to whom this state of affairs should carry an important meaniDg are the boys who are now, or ought to be, considering the bother-gome bother-gome question of their future occupations occupa-tions boys In a position to obtain the benefit of technical education of some sort, but undeclfied as to what sort best fits their needs. Though very good indeed as such things go, an Income In-come of $2,000 a year with living expenses ex-penses paid may not seem irresistibly attractive to ambitious boys, particularly partic-ularly when coupled with the uncertainties uncer-tainties of public employment But the lesson of the situation Is not so much that an acceptable place should go unfilled as that there Is evidently a Bhortage of men qualified to fill It The need of scientific farmers to manage big farms has not gone unforeseen. un-foreseen. The agricultural colleges of the country are filled even now with brewd young men learning a profession profes-sion sure to come Into greater and greater demand. There is room for more. Young men still debating their futures should give attention to agriculture's agri-culture's possibilities, particularly If th-tr tastes l'e in any such direction. Such callings as the law, medicine or engineering may be overcrowded, but there Is no likelihood that agriculture agricul-ture will be for many years, if ever, Private, as well as public, farms of large slie are always bidding for capable superintendents and it may be taken for granted that the demand will increase as the financial possibilities possi-bilities of farm efficiency become more adequately realized. Cleveland Leader. |