Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-04-02
UPL|FT FOR FARMING
University of Chicago to Instruct
on Scientific Lines.
STUDENTS WILL BE PAID.


Promoters Have In View.
The University of Chicago and ten
gentlemen farmers of the community
have Joined In an agricultural uplift.
Between the two interests strong young
men with an honest intention and well
Drowned hands are to be paid to study
scientific farming.
1t is to be a guild rather than col
lege or school of agriculture, says the
Chicago Post. The gentlemen farmers
viii furnish the students with work
and means of sustenance; the unlver-
5ity Will give them inc' iental technical
and scientific instructio i.
A pale student look q Id a nose peeled
from overmuch looking in the pots and
kettles of university laboratory in the
quest of degree will not be so much
of a recommendation In the application
for entrance as an honest If rough ap-
pearance, along with an ability to read
ordinary everyday English and write
1t with only little less ease.
The young men seeking agricultural
knowledge will be stationed at the
farms of the ten patrons Of the guild
under the guidance of an experienced
manager who knows fields and their
products, animals and their ways, from
the practical as well as the scientific
standpoint
For the work they do they will re-
ceive $25 a month the first year. $50
the second and $50 during the final
season Out of this-the salary of n
days-they give 50 n month for their
tuition and 81 month toward a fund
which is returned to them when they
are graduated. If the student keeps
up his course for three years, he will
have a bonus of 5000.
This will carry him over the period
OF work seeking. The founders of the
guild believe that he will not have to
look long or far. They think he will
be worth at least $4,000 n year as
farm manager within the Chicago sub
urban radius.
The farm owners in the guild are
aituur MeeKer, generaI manager Oh
Armour & Co; r. II. Hammond of the
Dering Coal company; Samuel insult,
president of the Chicago Edison COM
pany; Professor Il. |. Lille of the Uni
versity of Chicago; II. S. Keeley. traffic
manager of the Milwaukee railway; II.
S. Hart, president of the National
Dump Car company; II. |. Miller, pres
ident of the Chicago and Eastern I'LL
nois railroad: J. X. Dering, president
of the Dering Coal company, and Ben
jamin Johnson, agriculturist and stock
raiser. The head of the school or
guild for the university will be Pro
fessor William Hill.
Already twenty students in the agri-
cultural schools of the Universities of
Wisconsin and Illinois have asked for
enrolment The guild will be able
TO take 100 students, the work to be-
gin about April of this year
Professor Hill says the intention of
the guild is to raise the standard of
farm products, form a marketing as
sociation to cater TO the fancy trade
and send intelligent, we'll trained young
men to the country. Owners of spe-
ciallzed farms will find men capable
of taking charge of their places.
The farms of the members of the
guild all are in the vicinity of Chicago
most of then, near Lake Forest, Lake
Bluff and Darlington. All are spe-
ciallzed along various lines. Students
will work ON them in rotation so as to
gain an all around knowledge or If
studying along a certain line will be
allowed to remain on the farm best
fitted to the purpose.
The practical work of the students
will be divided into two classes-neld
and laboratory work and campus
work. Many of the courses will be
given in the university halls, but most
Of the instruction will be given on the
farms. Small dormitories will be built
on several Of the farms If the number
of students is large enough. Regular
tuition fees of $40 for a three months
term will be charged the, students.
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