Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-05-09

immediately after dinner.
WHAT ARE YOUR BRAINS WORTH
In these commercial days everything is
measured by the dollar sign. What is
! this man worth?' IS the question asked.
not what does he know D. Picrpont
Morgan says that character, not cash. is
the dominant factor i'm commercial circles,
but character without the ability To pro-
ducc or control cash is of little value to it's
owner, other than the satisfaction OF hav-
ing something that is not subject to levy
and execution. What is an education
worth? Has il a money valued is the
educated man more efficient than the un-
educated. as the world goes? Has he a
greater money producing power? Does
education improve the dollar efficiency
| OF the average farmer?
| Let us see.
The iarm management division OF Cor
nell University have been making inves-
LEGATIONS in regrrd to the dollar value of
an education to the farmer and have ar
| rived at the conclusion that a high school
education is worth y $4,000 investment i'm
. per cent government bonds. They got at
it in this way: "A complete agricultural
survey OF Tompkins county New York,
was made. This showed that the owners
ol farms who went only to the district
school made an average labor income of
| S3ls, while those who went to the high
school made Se22. But the increased
VrnIt nslc 4ol
with high school education, for the
tanners w!la ha,ismure than that averag. :
ed labor income of $S47.
| Another Interesting fact developed by
this investigation was that the average
farmer who owns and operates his farm
receives no more for his labor than the
hired man. oncthird of them receive less.
and about onethird moro. The report is
silent on the educational training OF the
hired man, but IL is a safe venture that
the percent of difference i'm 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 greateNtcnt 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 singy. The farms operated at a loss
were the single purpose. or specialized
farms. while those making the most money
We're the most diversified.
| lN 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 fcourse the
farmer with the greatest knowledge Of
chemistry. bookkeeping seed testing
breeding or atleast a farmer who knows
how to study out these points from books
farm papers. and actual experience. is tho
\ one VINO IS best ftted to put them into ef-
licient 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 requirements Are you
getting all that you ought to get out Of
your brains, or are yon still working your
muscles over time? Are You competing
with the hired man. or have you got into
the other class.-the class of workers
whose brains furnish the capital? II not.
| it is your own fault. There is no longer
amy excuse for the farmer being unedu-
| Gated, especially in his own line He may
not haye had the time nor the money in
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 agricultu-
raj education have put their heads togeth-
er and have prepared course of instruc-
tion for the farmer at home These
courses supplemented by the short cours-
es at the agricultural colleges dnring the
winter afford the farmer of today every
advantage OF a university training.
The Campbell Correspondence School at
Lincoln. Nebraska, is giving to the farmer
the result of the life long experience of
Professor Campbell and other noted spec
ialists like Burbank, Holden, Boiley. Buf
FUN and TenEyck, while many Of the
state agricultural colleges are organizing
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