Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-07-11
WHAT ARE YOUR BRAINS WORTH i


In these commercial days. everything is
measured by the dollar sign. What is
this man worth?r is the question asked.
not what does he know j. Pierpont
Morgan says that character, not cash. is
the dominant factor i'm commercial circles.
but character without the ability to pro-
duce or control cash is of little value to its
owner, other than the satisfaction OF hav-
ing something that is not subject to levy
and execution. What is an education
worth? Has it money value? Is the
educated man more efficient than the un-
educated, as the world goes? Has he
greater money producing power? Does
education improve the dollar etii cheney
OF the cvcrage farmer?
Let MS see.
The farm management division of Cor.
nell University have been making inves-
tgatlons in regrrd to the dollars value Of
an education to the farmer and have ar
rived at the conclusion that a high school
education Is worth a $1,000 investment i'm
) percent government bonds They got All
ltin this way: A complete agricultural
survey OF Tompkins county. New York,
was made; This showed that the owners
oi farms who went only to the district
school made an average labor income of
S31S, while those who Went to the high
school made sop. But the increased
value of mental training did not stop
wlthssa high school education, for the
farmers who had more than that averag-
! ed u labor income ofSSf7.
| AHUther Interesting fact developed by
Inns investigation was that the average
| farmer who owns and operates his farm
| receives no more for his labor than tho
hired man. Onethird OF them receive less
| and about onethird more. The report is
silent Ou the educational training of the
lllfed man, but IT IS safe venture that
the percent of difference in wages is as
great as in the case OF owners of farms.
| 1T was also discovered that the larger
the farm the larger the profit per acre. due
to a great extent to the fact that more
| high class machinery is used on the larger
farm than is now thought economical on
| the small farm. On the larger farms it,
was also noted that the farmer who man
aged several hired hands received more
| from their services than where they work
ed singly. The farms operated at a loss
were the single purpose. or specialized
farms. while those making the mostmonc
| were the most diversified.
| In other words. planning paid in farm
| ing operations. and planning best natur-
ally came from those farmers who had the
most education There are several lessons
to be seen from these figures taken from
one county in old New Yofk where condi-
/ tions are so radically different from what
| they are in the middle west OF course the
farmer with the greatest knowledge Of
chemistry. bookkeeping, seed testing.
breeding, or at least "a farmer who knows
how to study out these points from books,
| farm papers. and actual experience. il the
one who is best fitted to put them into ef-
/ ficlent practice on his own farm Hence
| the reason for the difference i'm earning
power of the trained mind and the one
| not trained
What are your acquirements? Are you
| getting all that you ought to get out of
your brains, or are you still working your
| muscles over time? Are you connecting
with the hired man, or have you got into
the other class.-the class of workers
whose brains furnish the capital? II not,
any excuse for the farmer being unedu-
Gated. especially In his own line He may
| not have had the time nor the money in
m his day to go to the agricultural college.
! But there is no longer an excuse, for the
agricultural college has at last come to
him. The correspondence school furnish
es him with complete college course at
home. The best authorities on agricultn-
raj education have put their heads togeth-
er aud have prepared course of instruc-
/ tion for the farmer at home These
courses supplemented by the short cours-
es at the agricultural colleges during the
| winter afford the farmer OF today every
advantage Of university training.
The Campbell Correspondence School. at
Lincoln ,Nebraska. is giving to the farmer
Professor Campbell and other noted spec
ialists like Burbank. Holden. Rolley. Buf-
! fun and TenEyck. while many of the
state agricultural colleges are organizing
extension departments for the purpose Of
bringing the college to the people
Anyone can get full information by
writing to the Campbell Correspondence
School. Lincoln, Neb., for a free catalog.
i We want to say to our patrons
and customers, there never was q
better medicine made than Bar.