The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-01
OPPORTUNITIES.
For Young Men-Throuah Intensive
Farming.

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Farming.
The Winona Agricultural Institute is
located at Winona Lake, Ind. 1t is one
of the most promising signs of the era
of a 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 flourishlng con. /
dition and the product of the efforts 1
of benevolent men and women. The I
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,
and in fact embracing and combining
the practical and scientific towards the
advancement of this important in
dustry. Moreover it's object is to
train and prepare young men to gain a
good livelihood from 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 circum-
stances to start on small farm, which
may be increased in scope or the small
farm exchanged for larger one.
Thus 1t will be seen that this plan Of
fers much larger per cent. of success
TO the student than if his training was
all based on the obtaining of farm
of from forty to one hun
1red acres.
The class room and practical work :
IS in charge of practical men, who
nave had exceptional training for this
work. The Dean of the Institute. Il.
]. HOLSTER, is a soil expert with a
rational reputation and his past years
work at Winona Lake has been most
interesting. The students realized
rom their farm and garden crops ON
'orty acres of land last year $1,S0000,
md this work was all performed by
he students themselves with the ex-
.eption of the employment of two ex- :
ra men and the engaging of the SER :
ices of eight students to remain and l
ook after the crops and do the market r
ng during the holiday season. Even
his business was all carried on by y
he students under the direction of one G
4 the professors. That is to say, the
Joys raised the crops, marketed them,
landed the money, and the success of
he venture, both from financial
tandpoint as well as the training the
,oys got, is being used as a basis for
nlarged operations this season, all
With the view to bring the students in r.
loser touch with all the agricultural
rocesses, supplementing the practical
york with a course of lectures and
tudies that will simplify the science
( agriculture.
The Dean has been engaged in ex-
ert practical work with soils and
lants, the transporting and marketing
{ crops over wide range of climate
18th variety of soils, embracing
lany portions of that area which lies n
etween the foot hills of the Rocky III
fountains and Long Island in New |,
ork State, and from the central part II
{ Canada to the Everglades in Flor !.
la, and is now in addition to his d
-ork at Winona directing the recla- \
lation of large tract of tidal lands
n the Connecticut Coast. He imparts
lis and other important features of
is experience TO the students, and is
nxious to prepare young men to take r
D this expert work and intensive Il
lrming. He is thorough believer in Y
le extension of our prosperity and the :
crease of the strength of the nation n
rough the development Of our agrl-
litural resources, and deals with the II
-oblem from a practical point of
ew. He is anxious to inaugurate
ovement that will begin It'll the I
of the abandoned farms
the East, continuing westward even
taking up those parts Of the semi
id west where farming is carried on
lder irrigation. training young men
get a living on a small acreage,
that ten acres may be
ade to produce greater income than ~
twelve hundred dollar salary in the
ty.