The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-05

ings as are incidental to school life. The
students are given opportunity, also, to
secure their board at practically actual
cost. The thousands of dollars which are
the university from the school each year
are derived from the products of the farm.
Each line Of farm life is made to earn.
In the horticultural department, for ex-
ample, the fruits raised are not only
raised to illustrate certain important
features of horticulture. but they are
raised with a practical end in view, to
prove for themselves their right to live.
So when there is anything ripe on the
horticultural vines or bushes it is not
only ripe to show how fine it can be, but
ripe for business, to be sold at the very
highest price the market affords.
q High Standing of the Dairy. i
The dairy department is one of the best
known in the United States. In this de-
partment, in the course of demonstrations.
for the benefit of the students and the
adult farmers who gather each year at the
farmers course in dairying, a good deal
of material is prepared-butter of the
very highest type, cheeses of many kinds
and of the finest quality; the very cream
of the business, SO to speak, centers in
the work done here. ALI these products
are registered on the books; every pound
of butter and every pound of cheese and
every pint of cream available must be In
dependent factors, must be earners. In
the department devoted to poultry, the
hens not only busy themselves with lay
ing eggs in the most up-to-date style and
with an eye out to a, ,constant improve
menti in their production, but they must
I lay for the market, just as many and just
as fine eggs as lies in their power--they
are a part of the earning machinery of the
school, and they and the juicy pullets for
the table bring no inconsiderable part of
| the income of the institution. In the line
of live stock, the school has taken a
high place among the producers of the
country, winning many prizes at the fat
stock shows. But when one Of these
prize animals is fit toakill he becomes n
very practical element in the earning
capacity of the institution. -.
Grains and Vegetables. =.
On the farm proper, in the line of
| wheat raising for example, the, land is
! given up very largely to experimental
plots and so is not of, the actual market
| value that it would be- il given up to one
| main CROP, but, at the same time, con-
| siderable revenue is derived from the ma
terial produced, while the wheats which
have been raised from the improved stock
bring fancy price for seed. The ground
| devoted to vegetables is a source Of line
| revenue, demonstrating every season now
important thing is truck farming near
a city if sensibly managed. In this line,
naturally, as in all others, there is no
effort made to see how much money can
be made, no attempt to rent land or en-
large the borders of the institution so as
to come in competition with the farmer or
! the stock raiser or the truckmen. No
! doubt if this were the case, the superior
knowledge Of the experts in charge of
the different departments of the institu-
| tion would make them formidable rivals
of the actual farm stock men. The object
is to let nothing 60 to waste, to utilize
! the legitimate products of the farm so
| that each department shall demonstrate
in the most practical manner possible Its
right to live.
! The professors and assistants and farm
help. pay for what they get precisely
as anybody from the outside pays, and
they pay the top market prices In order
to simplify matters and relieve Athe in
stitution of extra work. in the disposi-
/ tion Of material, these people are served
in the order of their application. One OF
1 the largest customers of the school is the
school itself. This comes about from the
fact that as many of the students as car
be accommodated board at the farm. Many
are not so accommodated because of the
lack Of facilities and the chances ale that
4 the number compelled to find board an6
rooms outside will be larger this veal
than ever before. But those who live al
the school are supplied with food, the raw
material for which, so far as is prac.
ticable. comes from the farm itself. Wise
business sense dictates that state agri.
I cultural school of this character should be
the place above all others where there
should be no loose ends of business man
: agemept. I3
The aim is-to supply the students will
their meals at precisely what they cost
But the aim is also to supply them will
the very best Of raw material from which
the cooks may work, and to supply thi
material at the current market rates.
! The Fund Distributed.
: Nor is the fund which thus accumulate
from year to year utilized for the bench
Of the institution direct, either in th
way of additional salaries to professor
( or in buying many things for the in
. stitution which could be utilized to- ad
yartage. The money is turned over regu
larIy to the university authorities in Min
i neapolts, where it goes for the genera
support Of the entire state university
as the farm produced this amour
entirely independent of the rest Q
, the university and quite inde
! pendent Of any outside aid, tn
money should legitimately belong to tn
E ! school. The plan followed, however, /
"A believed to be sound, to turn the none
!, earned into the general university hopper
: and trust to the wisdom offs the power
that be to see that the school at last re
ceives back Its pro rata share So
: strict account is kept with each depart
4 ment of the school and with the univer
sity as we'll, so that the entire output Q
!, the institution may be accounted for bot
when being produced at the school an
!. when the sum derived from sales reache
the university.
! Whoever is so fortunate as to becom
s buyer of the good things of the schoo
Of agriculture may rest assured OF havin