The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-08-26
TRAINED MEN I'M AGRICULTURE.
Scientific knowledge as Well as Prac-
ticaI Experience Demanded.


teal Experience Demanded.
In accordance with the tendency OF
the times which is one of specialization
demanding that it's successful men
shall have thoroughly mastered some
one thing and be able to do that one
thing as we'll as it can be done, adj
yanced agriculture is dropping more
and more into specialities. Instead or
producing a little of many things, the
successful farmer is now learning to
grow a few products OF great excel
lence. Many are demonstrating the
fact that there is profitable business
in raising only one or two products,
such for example, as lettuce, carna-
lions. berries, pure bred live stock,
poultry, or pure bred seed grains. In
oder to do this most successfully, how
ever. scientific knowledge as we'll as
practical experience is demanded;
man must understand the basis OF MS
work. as we'll as the best and most I'M
proved methods that are being deyel-
oped in agricultural colleges and eX-
| pertinent stations.
AS a result of this tendency to make
agriculture more scientific, there is an
| increasing demand for young men who
have had thorough training in this
| field. The value of accurate knowledge
and special training in agriculture is
| being appreciated as never before.
Capable, well equipped young men,
whether with or without capital, are
everywhere in demand in agricultural
pursuits. AS long as agriculture con-
tinues to be the greatest single voca-
ton in the United States, with an an
nual output valued at over five billion
dollars, there is an ample field for
young men thoroughly trained. Many
are needed, after their college course
in agriculture, to go back to their own
| farms and operate them skilfully with
profit to themselves and the communi-
| ty about.
For the well trained young man
without capital who must serve others
for compensation for a time at least,
there are ample opportunities in agri-
cultural lines. The University of Wis
consin College of Agriculture each
year receives scores Of letters asking
that it recommend suitable persons
for such positions as editors of agri-
| cultural papers, assistants in the Uni
ted States department of agriculture,
professors, instructors and investiga-
tors in agricultural colleges and ex-
pertinent stations, teachers OF agr1-
culture for secondary schools, colleges
and universities not distinctly agri-
cultural, managers of stock and fruit
farms and country estates, experts in
butter and cheesemaking for cream
cries and cheese factories, experts for
city boards of health and dairy and
food commissioners, and similar posi-
lions requiring accurate knowledge of
the principles of agriculture and dairy
ing The demand for these young men
far exceeds the supply.
That many young men are realizing
the opportunities open to those thor
oughly trained in agriculture is shown
by the rapid increase in the attend
ance in the four-year course in agri-
culture at the University of Wisconsin.
|
| undergraduate students in this depart
| ment. an increase of SO, or nearly 80
per cent over that of the previous
| year. This four-year course in agri-
culture is designed for those who seek
thorough preparation and liberal train
ing in this field. All who desire to be-
come experts, teachers and specialists
in agriculture as well as those who
wish a broad training for the success
full pursuit of farming and dairying, Sc
lect this regular college course in agri-
culture Of the students who have
graduated from this course during the
last two years, five are conducting
| farms in various parts of the country,
six are professors or instructors in ag-
| ricultural schools and colleges, one is
dairy expert for a city milk supply
company, one an agricultural editor,
one an agriculturist for large beet
| sugar factory, and one an assistant in
the bureau of animal industry at
Washington.
It is evident that the young men pos
sessing energy and push, who really
loves rural life, and will devote him
self earnestly and conscientiously to
the cause, can enter any department
of agricultural effort with the feeling
that he can attain as great success
therein as in any other line, for no de-
partment of educational effort is to-
day opening up more broadly and
more rapidly than agriculture.-W.
MILEAGE Is GIVEN UP.