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Show LUND LAD ATTENDS COLLEGE ON MONEY EARNED BY FARMING In the freshman class at University Univer-sity of Nevada this year is a quiet young fellow who went there at his own expense on money he earned) himself, after paying his own way through high school ,and who expects to continue for three more years, still on his own. He made his money - - farming, and he made most of it in two years when prices were tobogan-ning, tobogan-ning, by scientific application of knowledge he gained in classes in vocation vo-cation agriculture and as a Future Farmer. Further, he is the first young man who ever has finished high school in his little home town and then gone to college. The lad is Jimmie Jensen of Lund. Jimmie says not only he can make it now, but if anything goes awry with his collegiate education through which he wants to qualify as a vocational voca-tional agriculture teacher he will hurry right back to the farm and make some more. In a little talk to former mates still in school at Lund, young Jensen home for the week-end recently, outlined out-lined how he had done the work. He became interested in vocational agriculture work under L. R. Ivins, he said, because he was convinced he could learn how to make money to buy himself an automobile, and that was the first item he listed when he filed out his Future Farmer form under un-der the head of what he hoped to do with any money he might earn. As his first Future Famier project, Jimmie rented 30 acres from his father for general farming, on a half-share basis. He netted mdre) than $800 for his half of the 30-acre produce that year, but he didn't buy a car with it. During the year, one of the subjects he had studied in vocational vo-cational agriculture was the first cost, upkeep and operation of power farm machinery, under which was included in-cluded automobiles and trucks. The huge holes operation depreciation deprec-iation and upkeep would eat in the investment in an automobile caused Jimmies to buy farm animals instead. The next two years he leased the whole farm from his father on the same share crop .basis. .Then he graduated from high school, which he had attended while doing his farm work, and went to University of Nevada. Ne-vada. Meanwhile, he accumulated five good dairy cows, two heifers, a team of horses, a quantity of hay and grain and several hundred dollars in the bank. His father profited likewise. like-wise. Young Jensen now has on hand ample means to go two years in college col-lege and expects his dairy herd to increase and in other ways to raise the amount he will need for the full four-year course. He will not sell any of his cows for money to go to school on, though, he said. He wants them as the nucleus of a return to farming activity if anything happens to his plans. While in school at Lund he was a local and state officer of the Future Farmers, won the state public speaking speak-ing contest, ranked well in the divisional divis-ional contest at Boise, was valedictorian valedic-torian ' of his class, was high-point man in the 1929-30 state stock judging judg-ing contest, and went to the Royal Livestock show in Kansas City on the Nevada team. I |