Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-22
GRADUATES or AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT. or STATE COL.
LEoE TAKE UP WORK.
MAJORITY ASSUME DUTIES
woF PRACTICAL NATURE
Twenty Of Glass Of Thirty -ons Engage
in Farm Work-Some Employed ~
Teacher. and Others Associated With
Farm Experimental stations-ouiek
Employment for Graduates.

Special to Times Republican.
Ames, July 22.-The agricultural d.
vision of Iowa State College does send
it's graduates back to the farm. 1t may
be a mooted question elsewhere wheth-
er or not college educates young men
away from the country. but not at
Ames. The great majority OF men who
graduated from the animal husbandry
and agronomy courses this year have
taken up farm work and the same
thing has been true for several years
past
OF the thirty-one 1912 animal hus-
bandry department graduates, twenty
are now located on farms. operating
then: for themselves or as farm man
ayers; the other eleven are holding po-
Sitions as teachers in colleges and high
schools, as experiment station workers,
as statesmen or are taking post grad
uate work. OF the sixteen graduates
Of the agronomy course eight are on
farms, eight are teaching agriculture
in high schools. The horticulture and
forestry departments have put every
one of their graduates into the practi-
cal work for which they were trained,
and so have the agricultural, engineer
ing and dairy departments. The young
men who have contracts to teach, or as
farm managers, will get from $1,000 to
81, 500 year. Two men, q. j. Bosnian
and E. j. Van Meerten, one an agrono-
mist and the other an agricultural en-
gineer. have gone home to South Africa
to $4,000 positions as government
teachers and extension workers.
The emphasis has been placed on
farming in all our teaching" said Dean
c. F.. Curtiss, some of our graduates
this year refused positions worth ST.
200 and $500 as teachers because they
wanted to do practical farming"
The records OF the animal husbandry
department show that its ninety-seven
graduates in the last three classes are
located as follows: Farming, 70; col
lege and experiment station work. IL;
teachers of agriculture in high schools
s; agricultural journalism. 2; statesmen,
2: veterinary student. /: beef cattle
expect, l.
Not a graduate O. the agricultural
courses is waiting for q job. as the
college graduate is usually pictured.
Perhaps three or four men have not re-
ported their definite plans. but each of
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least two places which are open.
Into All Parts Of the World.
Eight different states and two for
eign countries have called men from
this years graduates Of the agricul
tural division of Iowa State College to
take educational positions in college or
high school. The twenty-one men re-
spending will go to South Africa.
China. Minnesota. Nebraska. Texas.
California, Georgia. West Virginia.
Missouri and Iowa One of chem goes
to an Iowa high school and only one.
Five go to Minnesota high schools
which in the past few years have
taken all the Iowa State College men
they could get-some twenty or thir
ty to date.
These twenty-one new agricultural
teachers will be located as follows: G.
J. Bosnian and E. j. Van Meerten,
South Africa; c. c. Tn, China: George
Dunlap, Russell Dunn, T. j. Nancy. w.
Q. Brant and E. NJ. Benton, with Iowa
state College In extension or expert
ment station work; w. F. Gericke. Uni
versity of California; E. NJ McGrew.
Missouri State Normal, Kirksvi))e; A.
c. Longnecker University OF Nebras-
ka; Carl N Kennedy, Texas Agricul-
tural College: L. A. Tompkin. Georgia
Agricultural College: p S. Shearer.
West Virginia experiment station: l..
E. Mcmillan. Holdredge, Nebraska
high school; Howard Garabrant, Farm
ers' Correspondence School. Minneapo-
lis; and to high schools in Minnesota.
L. F.. Mcmillan. w. II. Simms. Fran.
Krause, Q. McKelvey, Claude Wensel:
to West Liberty, Iowa, high school,
r. A. Bell.
These men have been engaged at
salaries ranging from $1,000 per year
to $4,000. The $4,000 salaries go to
the South Africans, Bosnian and Van
Meerten, who will work for their home