Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-29
Board of Control Seeking Young
Men For Farm Foremen and
Can't Find Them
WANTED ON THE STATES FARMS
Amos Graduates Won't Do Unless
They Can Stack Grain and Pow a
Straight Furrow--Board Intends to
Teach Farming at EIdora Industrial
observation-disclosures Demanded.
Special to Times .Republtca n.

Special to Times Republican.
Das Molnes. Nov 29.-Several hns
l,bs await competent and capable
\, ais men who know u lot all ut
farming. Graduates of state agricul-
| tural colleges are eligible provided
| they can make u stack of hay that
| will shed rain and can drive a four,
| horse team and guide pillow across
field and make u straight furrow.
| The Iowa state board of control de-
sires these young men to act as fore
but is unable to get them. At most
of the state institutions there Is q
large farm of several hundred acres
of land AT most of the Institutions
the superintendent Is physician who
makes no claim at knowing how to
farm The law requires THAT the sup
erintendent shall be physician and
in most cases necessarily so for the
treatment of defective persons and
their cure is the main purpose of tho
institutions.
ne Slale EodIN, NiiSlSloAS' ~ wv
mand of bright young men to act as
foremen OF these farms. The inmates
of the institutions are for the most
part not farmers, and hence 1t Is alb
solutely necessary not only that the
foreman shall know all about the SCI
entitic side Of farming, but also that
he be able to do the work himself. for the
inmates cannot. 1t is necessary that
the foreman be able to build a stack
of hay that will shed the rain and
not spoil. 1t Is necessary that he be
able to drive a four horse team to
pillow and at the same time guide the
plow in straight line.
AT the industrial school for boys at
Eldora the board desires to teach
farming to the boys and hence 1t is
necessary that the foreman be able to
d. all these things in order that he
can teach the boys. In fact 1t Is
much more necessary that the foreman
be able to do these things than that he
know just how much protein be fed
to a steer in order to get one pound
OF fat onto its ribs.
The state board during the course
OF time has been in correspondence
with numerous young men. These
young men know all about the theory
but when they discover that they must
knew how to pillow, stack hay and
grain, milk COWS, drive a harvester
and DIV numerous other farm jobs they
always back out and it is presumed
they have never been taught these
things tho many Of them are grad
yates of state agricultural colleges, and
ta "a
ricultural college.
1t Is claimed in this connection that
the state agricultural colleges teach
only what can be taught in the class
room, but not what is in the fields or
that is necessary to go into the fields
to teach. 1t is claimed for instance,
that at the Iowa State Agricultural
college the art of butter making Is
taught with great proficiency. The but
termakers turned out from the dairy
department are remarkably capable
and able to take positions anywhere.
Blacksmithing, engineering and those
things are taught with equal prof.
cheney, but when it comes to plow-
ing or stacking hay it is argued that
there is a marked weakness.
Auditor of State Carroll has been
conducting an inquiry among the state
and savings banks Of Iowa with a
view to ascertaining the feeling of
bankers with respect to financial con-
ditions.
Replies received by him to the letter
he sent out indicate constantly grow
ing confidence, only very slight re-
duction in deposits, an increase of
actual cash on hand and a hope and
belief in early resumption of payment
of currency.
Auditor Carroll has taken an en-
couraging view of the situation from
the beginning and the replies to the
inquiries he has sent out further en-
courage him. His first statement ex-
pressed confidence in 1owa's banks.
The fact that not one has succumbed
by reason of the financial stringency
alone has been gratifying.
Mr. Carroll has made a general re-
view of the situation, in respect to the
information received by him thru an
swers to his letters Of inquiry to bank
ers. II follows:
I'm response to your request for
statement from me as to the fiSancial
situation, permit me to say that
had some opportunity to look into the
matter while east and have been In.
curing into it since I returned.
1T is rather difficult for any one
to tell just what brought the present
furry about In fact, it is doubtful
If it can be attributed to any one
cause but is more likely due to
number Of causes. The one thing that
has contributed most to the disturb
ance it would seem, is the fact that
the business of the country has been
going on at a very rapid rate, almost
at break neck speed, and the momen-
tum of the thing itself has thrown on
the breakes and the movement is try
ing to slow up little. Had halt
been called some months ago it would
not have been quite SO noticeable, but
coming at the time and in the manner
it has makes it little abrupt.
Another cause which I heard as.
signed and which seems quite plausible
as having contributed to the string
ency in money matters in the east was
in banks or bank stocks in New York
had been buying controlling interest
in bank and then hypothecating the
stock in order to buy controlling in
terest in another bank, and repeating
the operation indefinitely, thereby Sc
curing a controlling interest in
number Of institutions upon only