The Lamar register., 1901-09-25

some will say, 81 want to make my
son an educated man, and farm life
affords no reward for an educated
man." Here is the greatest mistake
that the world has made, and is max
ing in the scheme of education. No
greater wrong can be perpetrated
upon the youth than to lead him to
feel that collage education units
him for work-for manual labor
and that he must, to reap his full re-
ward go into some genteel office
work, where hands and clothes are
to be kept stainless. This idea has
caused thousands and hundred of
thousands of young men to fail in
life. Educated brains and trained
willing hands make an invlncible
combination, but the most helpless,
pitiable object on earth is a college
educated young man who lacks bust
ness training and healthy energy to
lead him into active fields.
Education is the grandest aid in
all the world if properly directed and
applied, and what America needs to-
day is more college bred far mers,
more graduates of scientific, techni-
cal and industrial institutions and a
wholesale encouragement of enter
ing professional life.
The sugar beet industry presents
an ideal beginning for the young
man who seeks a profitable, riskless,
and permanent occupation.
A college educated man, if he is
willing to use his mustles as we'll as
his brains, has better chance of sue.
cess than the ignorant man, because
scientific farming is more particular
ly adapted to the growing of sugar
beets than to crops like corn, wheat,
and hay. But while brains and
science may add some thing to profit
and develop the industry on higher
lines, and man with common sense
who can raise beans or alfalfa can
make more money year in and year
out in growing sugar beets, than he
can in any other way with like capi
tal
For it requires but little capital to
begin. Land close to factory can
be rented and an expert agricultural
list is furnished without charge by
factory, to instruct and assist grow
ers. The seeding will be done by
the factory men if desired, and ex-
perienced cultivators and former can
always be hired. If the young man
is wise, he will prefer hiring himself
out to work in the beet field, for the
first season, thereby gaining actual
experience, without risking his capi-
tai. The work is not 30 hard but
that thousands of women are doing
it, and what woman can do, even a
dainty college bred young man should
not scorn.
If the young man will do this work
for one season, and can command
81, 90 to start with, he can safely
plant 40 acres of beets his first year.
With reasonable success he should
have his thousand dollars back again
and from $500 to 81 900 in profit, by
the end of November following. If
he increases his acreage, year by
year, investing his profits therein, he
should in five years be easily worth
$1,000 and have paid his own way
besides. If he should buy land at
$40 per acre, and hold them for five
years, the same land would be worth
500 to $3.50 per acre. Sugar beet
raising only requires about seven
months out of the twelve, and if our
young man still pines for city life.
he still has ample time to spend in
the midst of folly and pleasure seek
ing. Fathers, who have sons, can
study over this with proft.-Sugar
Beets.