The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
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moment he looks at her. He needs !
above all things q man VINO under
stands feeding animals to get the best
out of them. He must know how to
compound rations scientifically, aud
know by experience how to vary the
standard rations to suit the require
ments of each animal. And he must
know how to grow as much OF the
necessary feed on the farm as it is pos
sible to do. He must be clean m IN
clean in person and in character. Now,
where shall such person be found?
The director Of some Experiment Sta
ton that conducts dairy school might
know of one. l suggest you try Wis
consin, Pennsylvania and the Cornell
Station, at Ithaca, N. Y.
Now for a wonder, here is field for
work commanding high wages, which
is not overcrowded, field where the
employers find it difficult to get suit
able men to do the work required.
This demand is going to increase rath-
er than diminish, and why should not
some of the boys who are now on the
farms of Vermont and debating in their
minds what they shall fit themselves
for, take up the fitting themselves for
farm managers? True it is post the
requirements of which are very exact
ing and the duties very arduous, but
that is just the place for bright, active,
enterprising young men to undertake
to fill with success. Then there is this
about it, suppose young man fits him
self for such place and fails to secure
one of the best paying places at first,
he may take lower place and work
up, or suppose he has to manage his
fathers or his own farm in the end in
stead of securing place as manager
for some rich man, his training will be
the very best thing for him in every
way. To get an education for the pur-
pose of successfully managing large
or even small farm, and then to sue
coed in doing it, is an object to be
earnestly sought after. Selling goods
behind a counter dressed in store
clothes is child's play compared to it.
Let me advise farmers to discourage
their sons from crowding into stores,
offices and the like. Leave that work
for the city boys and the girls. 1t is
much better in every way to get train
ing that will enable one to become
good farm manager, than to go into
store, office, shop, factory, or anything
of the kind.
1t takes brains to succeed in manag-
ing farm. and it may be said that good
farm managers are born, not made, but
training goes great way. You will
see by DR.. Wilson's remarks that the
requirements of the position of farm
manager are very high, but they are
not out of the reach of hundreds of
bright boys in Vermont. If were 60
ing to fit myself for such a place 1
would begin by doing what every boy
who reads the WATCHMAN can do, 1
would let alone tobacco and cigarettes.
l say this for many reasons. What.
ever you are going to do, you will need
all the brains you can get, and brains
stupefied with the poison of things
which are smoked and chewed are poor
brains to fight the worlds battles with.
No matter Ihow much man does who
smokes, he could do more and do it
better If he did not smoke. If you
want to be all of man it is possible
for you to be, let smoking and chewing
alone. l need not speak of using al
coholic liquors. The boy or young
man who touches them is doomed.
You want clear brain and the full use
of every power of your mind and body
to make success of any kind of bust
ness, and especially that of farm man
agement. So let everything in the
line of smoking and drinking entirely
alone.
Next 1 would be reader. Some
people have not the power to get infor-
nation from books. Perhaps they can
read paper or trashy story but not
book. Now the farm manager of the
future must be able to read farm pa
pers, books on agriculture, and station
bulletins, must be able to read under
standingly. So would subscribe for
some or all of the farm papers which
have been noticed in the WATCHMAN
during the past weeks, and would
read them carefully, also filing them
for preservation. They are indexed
and can be bound at home and make
the very best books on agriculture.
Then would write for all the bulle-
tins of the experiment stations in New
England and New York. Write to the
Vermont Station at Burlington for ad-
dresses and advice about this. Also
write to them for a list of books to read.
For you will need to read books on
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