Connecticut western news., 1910-04-21
COLLEGE TRAINED
 FARMERS SONS
HAVE MANY GOOD OPPORTUNITIES
Graduates of Agricultural Colleges Find Desirable Places Open to Them in Scientific Farming-Many Devot- ing Themselves to SpeciaIties.

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 ing Themselves to SpeciaIties.
 A special to the New York Sun from Lincoln, Neb.. makes the following statements regarding the chances of farmers sons who have taken course in an agricultural college:
 A majority of the graduates of the agricultural schools and colleges main, tained in the Western States do not re- turn to the farm to make practical use of the knowledge they receive. This is true at least in Nebraska. Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. as disclosed by the records.
 This fact is not regarded by the advo- cates of agricultural education as an Argument against 1t, because the use made of the knowledge acquired is all in the direction of raising the status of farm management and increasing its profits.
 The agricultural college is different from the agricultural school. In the for mer a man takes full college course with agriculture as his main study. In the school the young men take course of three years with term of three or six months in each.
 The man with degree as a scientific agriculturist finds many attractive op- p rtunities open to him. The national Department of Agriculture furnishes a demand for foresters, agronomy experts and scientific assistants. The various State experiment stations are always calling for trained investigators to take up various problems. The increase in the number and size of the State aPrl. cultural colleges makes openings for aay who desire to teach. The agricultural papers reflect the prosperity of the farm CTS generally, and they are anxious to hire agricultural college graduates to take charge of their editorial pages.
 To the agricultural college graduate who desires to teach there is the oppor. tunity open to step into place paying from $l. 400 to $2,000 year from the start, while the graduate of the uuiver- sity proper who desires tU become an educator must content himself with starting at $75 month and in ten or fifteen years he may land professors job at S2,000.
 Graduates of the dairying departments often step into the management of large city dairies. Others who have specialized in certain courses find ready opportuni- ties as salesmen for firms manufacturing agricultural implements, silos, cattle dips. fertilizers and the like.
 The concentration of the butter making industry in the control of cen tralized creameries has led to demand for trained men from the dairy school Practically all of the Western railroads that are attempting reforestation have drawn upon the agricultural colleges for the men ill charge of the work. The tendency toward large farms has opened opportunities for graduates to become farm superintendents or managers. Land scape gardeners find ready employment at excellent wages with cities that have in recent years gone into the park business on large scale.
 The prediction is made that in time most of these men will turn to the farm, because the intelligence and knowledge they have acquired will enable them to make agriculture return them larger sums than the self-taught farmer. This iv y,rOvad bv tba axpariaprn aF tlpua xubo have gone to the farm from college They make good.
 One reason why the young men don't immediately return to the farm is that most of them are poor and are fitting themselves for farm work at their own expense. Seventy-five and one hundred dollar an acre farms make investment in them something for future consider ation.
 In the old days of cheap land about all the capital man needed to go to farming was enough to buy his stock and implements. Present day condi- tons force man either to borrow money to go into the business or else start as a renter.
 The lure of the town catches number. One of the instructors at the Nebraska school owns a fine farm over in Iowa, but he prefers city life and teaching to the isolation of farm life.
 The position of renter has no special terrors with the graduate with grit. Some of these graduates who marry girls from the dough laboratory" as the domestic science departments are jocularly called, have made good and now own the farms they rented few years ago.
 One student went in for pedigrsed seed