The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-14
YOUNG ASTOR FINDS
.LIFEWORK ON FARM
TELLS GOV. sULzER HE WIKI USE
RHINECLIFF FOR ADVANCE
NENT OF AGRICULTURE.
VOCATION A HARD PROBLEM
peoples House, and Finally
Chose Farming.

Albany, Feb. 14-Vincent Astor has
fixed upon agriculture and the man
agement of the Astor farm at Rhine
cliff on the Hudson as his life work.
At the farm experiments will be con-
Quoted for the benefit of every farmer
in the country, according to Gov.
Su1zer, who has said that he advised
the young man to embrace this voca-
ton. Young Aston recently came to
Albany to confer with Gov. Sulzer on
his life work He asked the Governor
to point out to him some profession
in which he could use his money to
help humanity.
In his recital of the story of the in
ternationa1 Institute of Agriculture in
Rome, Italy, to which forty-6ve Gov
ernments will send delegates next May
and which led up to his announce
ment of the determination Of Vincent
Aston to take up agriculture as his
life work, Gov. SuIzer said:
It have selected Vincent Aston as a
delegate. He will go. He came up
to visit me and we talked the whole
matter over He was interested in
doing something to be useful. I
do for the agricultural interests of
New York
He spent the night at the peoples
house and we talked over many things
He wanted to get my views and ad-
vice to how he could be useful
man in the progress of the world.
st told him that he was living in a
house with only one window and that
he was looking out of that window
every day and his views were conse-
quently limited and contracted. said:
my views, and I am going to put nine
new windows in your house. You can
look out of each of these windows
with me and you Will get greater
out of all the windows select the view
you like best and the field wherein
you think you can be the most use
full and then go to work and do some
thing for your fellow men Nobody
can do more than you can to make
the world better and happier
We'll, he spent some time looking
out of these windows and he didn't
seem to take much interest in any one
Of them until I went to the agricul-
tural window, and the moment he
looked out of that he said That is
my field. That is what I would like
to do. I have one of the finest farms
| the Hudson River of over six thou
sand acres My father never did
anything with it. I am going to
make that an experimental farm along
scientific lines, and everything I do
there will be told to the people of the
State of New York and the people of
that they will have the information.
so that they can have the knowledge
will have soils tested and dnd out
what they lack, find out what they are
and 50 forth and so on
Eyes, saw In the papers that he
came up to see me- about joining the
naval militia put that window in
his house and he looked out of it. He
didn't take to that at all. He didn't
see anything in that.
.fdr. Astor is a very intelligent
young man. He means well and
wants to do real things He wants
to do something beneficial for hui
Inanity and he thinks now agricul-
t1Iral development is his true field of
endeavor. So after he selected the
agricultural field told him all about
David Lubinn I told him all about
this International Institute OF Agri-
culture in Rome and how much 1T
has done and how it had reyolu-
tionized farming in Europe. Then he
decided he would like to go there
David Lubin, who founded the insti-
tute of agriculture under the patron
age of the King of italy is a friend
of Gov. suIzer- He spent fortune
in the various capitals OF the Old
World and in Washington in his en-
beavers to interest the Governments
in his scheme of multiplying the pro-
| ductive powers of the soil.
The delegates to the institute be
sides MIR. Aston are Benjamin r.
Yoakum of New York city, william
| @. Brown, president of the New York
Central RAILROAD; Henry MorgenthaU,
Jr., of New York city, who heads his
GLASS in agriculture at the Cornell
College of Agriculture; Elliot B. Nor
ris of Sedus, J. william Sanbury of
Busti and Frederick II. Allen Of New
Citv