The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-02-02
"Stay by the Farm,
Young People. "
BY n. F. Patterson, Montana
Agricultural College.


and everything connected with it." the
writer heard young farmer remark.
yes, and I wish we could sell out and
get into town where we could have a
better time," voiced his sister. These
young people had been living upon the
| ranch all of their lives and had never
been given enough time in which to
allow for a vacation and rest. They
were growing restless upon the farm.
The writer knows just how they feel,
fer he has travelled after a ploy and
| with the roundup wagon many a weary
day thinking the thoughts that these
two young people were thinking. They
begin to realize that there is a great
outside world which they desire to en-
ter and which can only be entered sat-
| isfactOrily through the portals of an
education. Industrious young people
| are clamoring for an education and
they would give everything they
| owned if they could but attend some
college. In fact, they would trade
their fathers ranch, if they had it, for
that education. The writer sympa-
eAtA@SS "ASAA eASoC youA6 pCOPlC, III
that was our dream by day and by
night. We approve of the feeling that
inspires it and we would like to see
every boy and girl have an education,
but we would not like, unless you are
particularly qualified for it, to see you
! secure an education which would land
you in what Is called one of the pro.
LESSONS.
When we are choosing our course
do We stop to think that the country
is full of lawyers, the majority of them
bNefless and obliged to get living in
| real estate, insurance or some other
| business outside of law. Thousands
Ct dollars and years of time were spent
in, preparing these men for that profess
| sion. The same can be said of preach
ers or doctors. The writer thinks
there is no more honorable a calling
| than the last two professions, but I'M
fortunately, many a man who had the
| making Of a good farmer, has been
| spoiled by becoming poor preacher.
Every profession is overcrowded.
We know OF but one branch of educa-
ton in which there is position await
ing the graduate as soon as he receives
his diploma and that is an agricultural
or domestic science education. The
supply from these schools does not
begin to equal the demand and will
not for the next score of years.
The boy who has become familiar
with the practical side of farming and
the girl who has performed the work
of the house after they have complet.
ed the course at the State Agricultural
College need not worry about secur.
ing good position. The world is
looking for just this kind of young
people, providing they have the brains
and the grit. The students who de-
vote their time to Horticulture, Ami
NAL Husbandry, Dairy, Agronomy,
Soils or Domestic Science, at the end
of the course there will be good pay
ing position waiting for them. The
colleges and experiment stations re-
quire the services of a great many
educated young farmers and the young
farmers require the services of the
girl graduate. Not only this, but, for
the girls, there are always paying po-
sitions in colleges and high schools.
In the West it will not be many
years before the big railroads will
have places in their industrial depart
ments for practical college men. In
fact, the railroads are, at the present
time, using more and more agricul.
tural experts each year. Recently a
railroad official was heard to remark
that they wanted and needed men Of
this kind. and the kind of man re-
quired was pointed out. He said,
why, that man would cost $4,000 a
year" They would not only cost that
much, but they would be worth that
amount. Young people who prepare
themselves for these positions need
not wait ten or fifteen years before
they see living clearly ahead of them.
Regarding this, Henry Wallace of
Iowa says: LAS the years go on it
will become more apparent that the
man who will farm successfully must
have the know how which he can
gain only by long experience and by
reading at home or by an education
plus experience and reading. Four
years at college, or even, two years,
will be worth to you twenty years of
farm life without it. Therefore, we
say to the young man, not Go West,
but Go to college If you possibly can
go to an agricultural college,
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