Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-03-13
UPL|FT FOR FARMING
University of Chicago to instruct
on Scientific Lines.
STUDENTS WILL BE PAID.
Ten Gentlemen AgrieuIturists and the
University Have CO. operated to
Teach Pupils-Specializins and Rails.
ing Standard Of Products Are Objects
Promoters Have In View.

Teach Pupils-Specializns and Rails
ing Standard Of Products Are Objects
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 lie paid TO study
scientific farming.
Ii is TO be guild rather than col
lege or school of agriculture. says the
Chicago Post. The gentlemen farmers
will furnish the students with work
and means of sustenance; the uniNcr.
sity will give them incidental technical
and scientific instruction.
\ pale student look and nrse peeled
from ovcrmuch looking in the pots and
kettles of a 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 10 read
ordinary everyday English and write
IL 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 $50 II month the first year, $50
the second and SO during the final
season. out of thiS--the salary of n
good farm hand IN these prosperous
days-they give 81 month for their
tuition and 81 Il month toward Il fund
which Is returned to them when they
are graduated. If the student keeps
up his course for three years. he will
have 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
he worth at least $1,000 year as
farm manager within the Chicago sub
urban radius.
The farm owners in the guild are
Arthur Meeker, general manager OF
Armour < Co: X. X. Hammond of the
Dering Coal company; Samuel insult
president of the Chicago Edison com
pany; Professor f. |. Lille of the Uni
versity of Chicago H. :. Keeley, traffic
manager of the Milwaukee railway; II.
s. Hart, president of the National
Dump Car company; Fl. |. Miller, pres
ident of the Chicago and Eastern ILL
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 asri
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
iioltSScl LIN SuNS tHc iuttiitioh VI
the guild Is to raise the standard of
farm products, form Il marketing as
sociation to cater TO the fancy trade
and send intelligent, well trained young
men to the country. Owners of spe-
cialized 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
---meSt of them near Lake Forest, Lake
Bluff and harrington. All are spe-
clalized along various lines. Students
will work on them in rotation so as to
gain an all around knowledge or II
studying along Il 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-field
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 three months
term will be charged the students.