The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-04

pupils are owners of cheese factories
or creameries and many others had
places already secured. Some were en-
gagged while still students at the school
or have found employment since leav-
ing us. Practically all of these 120
are now or will be at the opening Of
the season busy In creameries and
cheese factories. So much for those
students.
The attendance on the short course
In agriculture (the young farmers
course) during the past winter was
$50. OF these 81 were back for their
second winters instruction completing
the course and the remainder of tho
class were here for the first time. INV
fortunately, on account Of lack OF ac'
commodations, we were obliged to
turn applicants from both the short
course in agriculture (the young farm
ers' course) and the dairy course.
large majority of the students were
from Wisconsin farms, while SO came
from Illinois, 8 from Iowa, and smaller
hbAASSAo iiOu q QOLCA OIhOA sosos~Ss
About 80 per cent of these young men
were from farms, and the small re-
mainder was composed Of city boys
ambitious to be farmers. Several OF
the students were married men who
own farms or were seeking to be farm
managers. A large majority OF all
were still interested in the home farm
and have returned to 1t for the coming
seasons work. Sixty-one members OF
the short course class expressed de-
sire to find employment on farms the
coming summer, SOME as regulation
farm hands, doing any kind Of work
called upon, while a number OF others
who had had considerable training and
experience in management. sought po-
sitions as herdsmen, private dairy
men, foremen, etc. / am pleased to
state that every one of the 81 seeking
places have found employment, and
fully one hundred requests, by letter
and personal visits from farmers and
stockmen, seeking help, have not been
filled owing to lack of students want.
ing places. In general it may be said
that each year we have at least three
letters asking for our students to WORK
on farms in some capacity to one that
we can send out. This year we have
sent out students as helpers, managers,
foremen, ETC., to states as far away as
California on the west and the At
lantic coast on the east.
Our theoretical instruction in the
College of Agriculture consists of lee
lures in agricultural chemistry, farm
bookkeeping, parliamentary practice,
the elementary economics Of agricul-
ture and elementary bacteriology. Our
mixed theoretical and practical in
struction consists in the feeding,
breeding and judging of farm animals,
in the study of plant life and horticul-
ture, including the study Of seed
plants, grating, budding, planting
etc.; in the physics and mechanics OF
the farm, including planning farm
buildings, farm drainage, irrigation,
ventilation, the machinery of the farm,
etc. In dairying the farmer students
are taught butter making as practiced
on the farm. The wholly practical
work consists of farm blacksmithing,
farm carpentry, the grooming and
handling Of horses, etc. Twenty-four
instructors are required.
l think no one can review this llst
of subjects and consider the manner
in which the students are Instructed
without seeing at once that the whole
effort is to prepare boys for the proper
care and management of the farm and
good citizenship. Everything in such
a course of instruction certainly tends
to send the boy back to the farm, and
nothing to take him away from 1t. In
deed, any of our students who may
choose to follow railroading, clerking
or some other vocation, have in a
large measure wasted their time while
studying with us, for our instruction
is not in the direction of being directly
helpful to them. No one, then, can
find reasonable objection to the state
ment here made, that fully 95 per cent
of our short course students return to
the farm. The remaining agricultural
students in our catalogue are pursuing
the four-years' course in agriculture or
are taking graduate studies in agricul7
ture. Some of these are young men
of means who propose to occupy farms
of their own after leaving us. Others.
with or without means, are fitting
themselves for specialists either to
superintend farms or to enter agri-
cultural college or experiment station
work, agricultural journalism, or
something of that kind.-W. A. Henry,
Dean College of Agriculture. Madison,
Wis.
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