Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-28
.UPL|FT FOR FARMING
University of Chicago to Instruct
 on Scientific Lines.
STUDENTS WILL BE PAID.

Ten Gentlemen AgricuIturists and the
 University Have co-operated to
 Teach Pupis-Speeializins and Rais-
 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 be paid to study scientific farming
 It is to be a 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 univer- sity will give them incidental technical and scientific instruction.
 A pale student look and 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 we'll as the scientific standpoint.
 For the work they do they will re- ceive S25 a month the first year. $50 the second and S35 during the final season. Out of this-the salary of a good farm hand in these prosperous days-they give $5 month for their 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 $20O.
 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 5000 a year as farm manager within the Chicago sub urban radius.
 The farm owners In the guild are Arthur Meeker, general manager of Armour & Co.,; R. R. Hammond of the Dering Coal company; Samuel Insull. president of the Chicago Edison com- pany: Professor r. l. Lillie of the Uni versity of Chicago; H. s. Keeley, traffic manager of the Milwaukee railway: H. S. Hart, president of the National Dump Car company; H. I. Miller, pres ident of the Chicago and Eastern Illl- nois railroad: J. K. 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 lessor 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 marketing as- sociation to cater to the fancy trade and send intelligent, we'll trained young men to the country. Owners of spe- clalized 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 them near Lake Forest, Lake Bluff and Harrington. All are spe- cialized 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-feld 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 dormitcries 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.