The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1913-05-02
WKAT ARE YOUR
BRAINS WORTH?

question asked, not "what does he
know J, Pierpont Morgan says
that character, not cash, is the domi.
uant factor in financial circles, but
character without the ability to pro-
duce or control cash is of little value
70 its owner, other than the satisfac-
tion of having something that is not
subject to levy and execution. What
g aa educstion worth? Has it a mon
ey value? Is the educated man more
efficient than the uneducated, as the
world goes? Has ne a greater money
producing power? Does education
improve the dollar. efficiency OF the
Average farmer? Let us see.
The farm management division of
Cornell University have beeh making
Investigations in regard t. the dollar
value of an education to the farmer
and have arrived at the conclusion
that a high school education is worth
a $4,000 investment in rer cent gov
ernment bonds. They got at it in
this way: A complete agricultural
sUryey OF Tomkins County, N. Y,
was made. This showed that the
owners of farms who went only TO
the district school made an average
labor income of S31S while these who
went to high school made 1922. But
the increased value of mental train
ing did not stop with a high school
education, for the farmers who had
moro than high school education
averaged labor income of SS47.
Another interesting fact developed
by this investigation was that the
average farmer who owns and oper
ates his farm receives no more for his
labor than the hired man, one third
Of them receive less, and about one
third more The report is silent on
the educational training Of the hired
man, but it is a safe venture that the
percent Of difference in wage is as
great as the difference in earning ca
paciity among the owners of farms.
II was also discovered that the larg-
.ce 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 is now
thought economical on the small farm.
On the larger farms it was also noted
that the farmer who managed several
hired hands received more from their
services than where they worked sing
ly. The farms operated at loss were
the single purpose, or specialized
farms, while those making the most
money were the most diversified.
In other words, planning paid in
farming operations, and planning,
best come naturally from thUse farm
ers who had the most education.
There are several lessons to be seen
from these figures taken from one
county in old New York where con-
ditions a1e so radically different from
what they are in the middle west.
O course, the farmer with the great
est knowledge of chemistry, booK-
keeping, seed testing, breeding, or at
least a farmer who knows how to
study out these points from books,
farm papers, and actual experience,
is the one who is best fitted to put
them into efficient practice on his own
farm. Hence the reason for the diff
ference in earring power of the train
ed mind and the one not trained.
What are your requirements? Are
you getting all that you ought to get
out of vour brains, or are you 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? n not Il il your
own fault. There is no longer any
excuse for the farmer being uneducat-
ed, especially in his own line: He
may not have bad the time nor the
money in his day TO go TO the agri-
cultural college But that is no longer
an excuse for the agricultural college
has at last come to him. The corre-
spondence school furnishes him with
a complete college coprse at home.
The best authorities OF agricultural
education haye put their heads to-
geather and have prepared cource
of instruction for the tarmor at home.
These courses supplemented by the
short courses at the agricultural col
leges during the winter afford the
farmer every advantage of uniYer-
sity training. The Campbell Corre-
spending School at Lincoln, Nebraska
is giving to the farmer the result of
the life long experience of Professor
Campbell and other noted specialists
like Burbank. Holden, Bolley. Ruff
fun and TcnEycks, while many of
the state agricultural college are or
ganizing extension departments for
the purpose of bringing the college
to the people.
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