Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-28
The Agricultural College Graduate.

We are frequently asked by prospective
students: What are the opportunities of
the agricultural college graduate com
pared with those of colleges of science.
literature and engineerng?" 1t is not
the writer's intention to make any com
parison whatever. but~mercly to call the
attention Of the reader to few of the
many chances for a young man along the
line of agriculture.
No agricultural college claims to be
able to place all of her graduates in good
remuneratlve positions as soon as they
graduate. In the past it would have been
folly for them to think of doing 50 but
the tide has turned and the importance
OF education in agriculture has come Il
be generally recognized. This change Is
mainly due to the more eXacting condi-
tions, and to the influence of the agricu-
tural press, the farmers institutes the
various livestock and dairy associations.
and the experiment stations and agricui
tural colleges. 1t is not the main object
of the college of agriculture of the pres
ent day to train men for Saiaried posi-
tons. Its main object is the training OF
students. not only to be good farmers,
but good citizens and successful men. In
this connection | might mention the fact
that all of our college of agriculture
graduates during the past two years
have returned to manage their fathers
farms, notwithstanding the fact that
many tempting offers were made them
to accept other positions. But there Is
another class of young men who are in
tensely interested in agriculture that have
no farm or capital of their own to start
them in life Thus they must OF necessity
become Sa laried men, Tor "A while, al
least. 1t is for these young men that this
article is written.
During the past few months we nave
had a great many inquiries from the va
rious states asking us to furnish trained
men along the following lines: Herdsmen.
farm managers. managers of special dairy
farms, creamery experts, especial trained
men along crop lines, nursery managers,
landscape gardeners, agricultural editors.
and requests from seven state colleges
and experiment stations. asking us to
furnish them men in rank from the nosi-
ton of instructor to that of full pro-
fessor
The question quite naturally arises,
what remuneration do such positions Of
fer to the right kind of man? The best
answer to such a question is to quote a
few of the inquiries along the different
lines of work. Just a few days ago We
received a letter from one of the leading
physicians in New York state. asking us
to furnish him superintendent for his
large dairy and stock farm, where pure
milk is bottled and sent to New York
city for infants use at Is cents per quart.
The man for such a position must be
well versed in live stock, breeding. feed
ing, pedigrees. &c. He must also under
stand the care and mana cement of dairy
machinery. the care of milk and superin-
tend the IS men that work on the farm.
You know the kind of a man I need. II
you have such. send him along at once
and will pay him salary equal to thai
of your highest university professor, and
should he turn out first class, / can pay
him much more.
A large land owner in the central part
of this State wishes to furnish him "A
young man well up in farm crops and
live stock. to superintend his farms and
instruct his tenants as to how to increase
their yields of grain without having to
increase their acreage. This gentleman
informed me recently that he would pay
such a man 800 a month and expenses
to start on. with good prospects for an
increase later. One of our best young
line of work.
One of the far South states recently
wrote us. asking if we could recommend
them good man for the position of ag-
riculturst and horticulturist for their
college and experiment station-saIary