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of trained men. It is impossible to state where and when an opportunity 

 may be seized. It is beyond the power of man to tell what proportion 

 agriculture is to assume in the future, or in what direction it is to de- 

 velop most. We are safe, it seems to me, in saying that the impetus to 

 agriculture we are now feeling is but the beginning and that the next 

 fifty years will show even greater changes than we have seen in the past 

 half century. 



Possibly it may be well to point out some of the phases of agricultural 

 work which seems prominent and promising at the present time for those 

 who seek an active and earnest career in agriculture. I do not wish to 

 unduly emphasize the horticultural posibihties in agriculture, but I know 

 you will pardon my calling special attention to the commanding and grow- 

 ing importance of fruit growing, truck farming, floriculture, and landscape 

 gardening. One needs only to compare the last available statistics of 

 these industries with those of any previous period to realize the growth 

 being made and the opportunities they offer. It is the same, I know, with 

 dairying, animal husbandry, poultry raising, and general farming. For 

 those lacking capital to start a business of their own, and inclining 

 toward the professions in agriculture, if we may so call them, the agri- 

 cultural colleges, the experiment stations, the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, and the agricultural press are all seeking trained men. 

 Those of us 'having to do with these phases of agriculture know that the 

 supply is novrhere equal to the demand. I know now of seven vacant 

 college and station positions in horticulture, and three places in the 

 United States Department of Agilculture, paying from $000 to .$1,800 per 

 annum, and it is doubtful if men of the right quality can be found to fill 

 them. The lack is not in opportunities, but in men well enough trained 

 to take advantage of existing opportunities. 



Will it pay to train oneself for a career in agriculture? Will sell- 

 ing merchandise pay? Will preaching pay? You answer at once that 

 it depends on the man. And so with the man with special training in 

 agi-iculture. A man with the three I's, intelligence, industry and interest, 

 will find that it pays to train himself in agriculture. The man without 

 these, and with but little of the art of agriculture and but a smattering 

 of the science, can hardly make it pay. Above all, a lazy man, or the 

 man who thinks his training is the "whole thing," can not make it pay. 

 To succeed, the trained man must be a worker. He must remember that 

 always "the weakest goes to the wall," and that, as in other industries, 

 one "must fish, cut bait, or get ashore." Again, he must be in earnest, 

 and must be in love with his work. 



"No profit grows where no pleasure is ta'en," 

 And "the labor we delight in physics pain." 



The trained men with these qualifications can more than make agriculture 

 pay. 



