University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-01-20

| Iney were all grouped ABOUT tne
room as real college men would have
been. Two were lying on the bed;
another was on the trunk; three
had chairs. Three coats were on and
three of. The fellows with their
coats on had just dropped in to see
the others, who had been copying
notes. the room seemed to be the
social center of the crowd. A sopho-
more would have dubbed them a
bunch of Shorthorns" Indeed, five
Of them were students in the Short
Course in Agriculture and the sixth
was a would-be journalist who had
come in to get the students views of
what good their work at the Univer-
sity would do them.
The only like characteristic of the
past life of the whole crowd was
that they weree all from Missouri.
Two had cone from ST. Louis, one
from a small town ami three from
farms in different parts of the State.
One had come from general farm,
one from a cattle farm, one from a ten
ant farm, one rom the ranks of trav-
cling statesmen and one from a city
home but with four years experience
on timber land. The pcrtinacity of
the question, What will you do when
you get through here's" would have
been evident to anyone with the leas.
bit of curiosity.
From Drummer TO Farmer.
Comparatively few people really
leave the city to go pack to the farm.
The trend of American life has been
the other way. But when a man
who has lived all his life in the city
and for five years has been Q travel
ing salesman, with hotels as mis- quar-
ters, decides to take up agriculture,
at once eyes are turned on him.
How will he cross the chasm between
these two modes of life?
w. %. Fuhlage of st. Louis, 26
years old but with only three days
farm life to his history, is preparing
to make this step. In less than two
months he will leave the University
with a certificate of graduation FROM
the Short Course in Agriculture.
That is safe statement because he
is in his fourth term of the course
and his friends say he has always
made good grades.
His plans now are to 60 to one OF
Nissouri's greatest poultry farms, 10
Gated near st. Louis, and add practi- |
cal work to the store of facts which
he has gathered as a student here.
81 intend to stay on that farm as
long as they can teach me anything
about poultry and poultry farming"
said Fuhlage. about six men are
employed on the farm all the time
and the manager is an authority on
poultry. I'll have to stay there long
enough, too, So people will believe I
know something about it and that i
intend to stick; then I can get the
packing to go into business for my
self. Poultry will be my first farm
product but if it seems advisable l
nay branch out into something else.
l am getting here will be
If benefit to me sometime, l am sure.
IN going into it for the money. II
Won't lay down when l run against
ome of the stiff trials of farm life,
ither; I expect to have lots to do
'esides merely gathering up the pro-
luce, sending it to market and draw
ng the money for it."
He Loves the Work.
Money is all right" said Fuhlage's
G. W. Lilies, "but I'm go ,
ng to stick to the farm because
Ike the work as much as l do the
loney." He had stopped writing a
etter to drop that remark into the
1t brought up the
uestion of what he had done in the
ast. "We live on a 16O-acre farm
nd if we have any specially it is
eeding cattle. There's good money
l cattle when you buy them as
alves, pasture them out for two or .
lree years and then bring them
ack to feed. I'm learning things
ere that will help me, when 1 go !.
ack in the spripg."
A. H. Hahne of New Haven has
cen at the University a part of the '
ear for three successive years. The ,
rst term he left before IL was finish J