The daily tribune., 1906-06-08
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Farming.


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Farming.
The Winona Agricultural Institute b
located at Winona Lake, Ind. It = one
Of the most promising signs Of the era
Of better agriculture: It was founded
by the Wtnona Assembly. which II
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; a Training
School for Bible teachers In New York;
and the Winona Park School for girls,
all of which are in fourishing con-
dition and the product of the efforts
OF Benevolent men and women. The
Win0na 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 Its 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 it will be seen that this plan of
fers much larger per cent. of success
to the student than II his training was
all based on the obtaining Of a farm
consisting of from forty to one hum
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. e.
J. Hollster, is q soil expert with a
national reputation and his past years
work at Winona Lake has been most
interesting. The students realized
from their farm and garden crops on
forty acres of land last year $1,SO0.0O,
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 ard 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
boys raised the crops, marketed them,
handled the money, and the success OF
the venture, both from financial
standpoint as well as the training the
boys got, is being used as basis for
enlarged operations this season, all
with the view to bring the students In
closer touch with all the agricultural
processes, supplementlng the practical
work with q 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
of 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
of Canada to the Everglades in Flor
Ida, and Is now In addition to his
work at Winona directing the recla.
nation Of large tract Of tidal lands
on the Connecticut Coast. He imparts
this and other important features OF
his experience to the students, and Is
anxious to prepare young men to take
up 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 practical point of
view. He is anxious to inaugurate
movement that will begin With the
Improvement OF the abandoned farms
in 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
to get living on small acreage,
demonstrating that ten acres may be
made to produce greater income than
n twelve hundred dollar salary ln the
city,