Ellsworth American., 1911-02-22
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ther" hun. They need men VII, ,.,u
sinpy make money vn their own
tarma 1t IL necessary for the apr,.
cultural college graduate to succeed on
MS own farm. of course. His eyerv
move Is closely watched by cr,tica,
nelghbors. Even the shadow Of
failure starts a chorus of Il told Won
So"
success on his own farm is the first
essential to the young man who wou,d
be leader. Given that for backing
ne can do almost anything he wants
10 with his community. Farmers have
a. vast deal of respect for the man
who can do things. Their prejudice
against college farming is lost in ad-
miration for the results achieved by
the college farmer. II he advises or
ganizing club they are willing to
JOIN In and help. IL he tells them the
schooi needs reorganizing they are
willing to be convinced They NAV
even consent to bringing two or three
schools together and using the money
saved to hire better teachers. The in
spiration of one mans success and the
energy impaired by him IL sufficient to
start whole community to thinking.
Once you get man to thinking, there
Is no need to worry further about him.
He will take care Of himself.
II an energetic young farmer with
an agricultural education could be
placed In each township throughout
the farming sections the results would
be an enlightened agriculture that
would be the envy of the whole
world A leading educator recently
made the statement that three live
agricultural college graduates could In
ten years increase the value of the
land in any agricultural county $40
per acre. That sounds incredible. but
it is literally true The community
would become so progressive that 1t
would be worth 500 an acre more to
live there.
The charge has been made that ag-
ricultural college graduates do not go
back to the farm. The facts do not
bear out this assertion. While the
percentage varies. 1t is safe to say
that fully so per cent Of the graduates
go directly to the farm. The others
go into some work closely related to
farming. In my acquaintance with
young men just finishing college l
have known Of very few who were
not anxious to go to farming. A good
many Of them do not do SO because OF
lack Of capital. They have spent all
their money In college, and 1t looks to
them like uphill business to start
farming without cent. They are
overwhelmed with offers Of salaried
positions at salaries Of from $1,000 to
$1,000 year to start with. Expert
ment stations, agricultural colleges,
agricultural papers and manufacturers
Of agricultural products are all looking
for agricultural college graduates.
Many of the men go into some work
of this kind until they can save money
enough to start farming.
or the college graduates who do
take up farming as business the
greater number rent the home farm
or go into partnership with their re-
spective fathers. This is the Ideal
way for young man to get start.
Under such favorable circumstances
he cannot help but succeed. Often.
however. there are enough brothers
at home to occupy all the land. The
young college farmer must look else
where for job Every year the agri-
cultural colleges are receiving larger
number of calls for farm managers
Many of these offers are exceedingly
liberal. They come for the most part
from farmers who wish to retire from
active work and at the same time do
not wish to sell or rent their farms.
They are often willing to take the
right sort of young man In on
basis or give him per