The Breckenridge news., 1906-05-30
OPPORTUNITIES.
For Young Men-Through Intensive
Farming.

Farming.
The Winona Agricultural Institute is
located at Winona Lake, Ind. 1t is one
of the most promising signs of the era
of better agriculture; it was founded
by the Winona Assembly, which is
commonly known as the Western
Chautauqua. The Agricultural Insti-
tute, however, is only one of the sew
eral educational institutions that has
been organized by this Assembly.
There is also a Technical or Trade
School at Indianapolis; Training
School for Bible teachers in New York;
and the Winona Park School for girls.
all of which are i'm a 1ourishing con-
dition and the product of the efforts
of benevolent men and women. The
Winona Agricultural Institute differs
from many other institutions of the
kind in that it believes in training the
hand in the pursuit of the practical
work of preparing the soil, plant
ing and raising crops, caring for
animals and the study of the kinds,
anu ldNl anu
the practical and scientific towards the
advancement of this important in
dustry. Moreover its object is to
train and prepare young men to gain a
good livelihood from a small tract of
land, placing the value in the boy
rather than in the land. In other
words, the student is trained to get the
most out of small acreage, as he is
most likely to be forced from clrcum-
stances to start on small farm, which |
may be increased in scope or the small |
farm exchanged for larger one.
Thus it will be seen that this plan Of |
fers a much larger per cent. of success
to the student than if his training was
all based on the obtaining of a farm |
consisting of from forty to one hun
dred acres.
The class room and practical work |
is in charge of practical men, who
have had exceptional training for this |
work. The Dean of the Institute. 10.
J. Hollister, is soil expert with a
national reputation and his past years |
work at Winona Lake has been most !
The students realized
from their farm and garden crops on
forty acres of land last year $1,S00.0O, !
and this work was all performed by
the students themselves with the ex-
ception of the employment of two eX-
ira men and the engaging of the SER
vices of eight students to remain and
look after the crops and do the market
ing during the holiday season. Even
this business was all carried on by |
the students under the direction of one |
Of the professors. That is to say, the |
bows raised the crops. marketed them, |
handled the money, and the success of |
the venture, both from a financial |
as we'll as the training the |
bows got, is being used as a basis for |
enlarged operations this season, all !
with the view to bring the students iD
closer touch with all the agricultural
supplementing the practical
work with a course of lectures and
studies that will simplify the science
Of agriculture.
The Dean has been engaged in ex.
pert practical work with soils and
plants. the transporting and marketing
IF crops over wide range of climate
with a variety of soils, embracing
many portions of that area which lies
between the foot hills of the Rocky
Mountains and Long Island in New
York State, and from the central part
IF Canada to the Everglades in Flor
da, and is now in addition to his
work at Winona directing the recla-
nation of a large tract of tidal lands
Dn the Connecticut Coast. He imparts
this and other important features OF
MS experience to the students, and is
anxious to prepare young men to take
np this expert work and intensive
farming. He is a thorough believer in
The extension of our prosperity and the
increase of the strength of the nation
through the development of our agri-
cultural resources, and deals with the
problem from a practical point of
view. He is anxious to inaugurate
that will begin 18th the
of the abandoned farms
N the East, continuing westward even
TO taking up those parts of the semi
arid west where farming is carried on
under irrigation, training young men
10 get a living on a small acreage,
that ten acres may be
made to produce a greater income than
4 twelve hundred dollar salary in the
city.