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live on the farm, I would suggest that he take the agricultural course 

 anyway. The department of agriculture at Washington can not secure 

 enough trained men to carry on its work. President Stone of Purdue 

 University at an open meeting of the Grange at that place showed twenty 

 applications from the civil service which had come to his desk within two 

 weeks for positions which could only be filled by graduates of agricul- 

 tural schools. Five of the twenty positions had a salary of less than 

 .?1,000 per year the first year and three above $2,000, one of which was 

 $2,500 and the others intermediate. Each of these salaries is increased 

 liberally during the first few years. The officials of the department com- 

 plain that they can not keep their help as private concerns come along 

 and offer still higher pay. 



There Is a growing demand for teachers who can teach argriculture 

 not only in colleges but in the high schools. Agricultural high schools are 

 being founded and there are very few who are capable of taking charge 

 of them. In Wisconsin, which possibly has the lead in this line, they re- 

 quire a teacher to be a bachelor of science in agriculture, to have lived on 

 the farm and to have had previous experience in teaching. Teachers 

 having these qualifications are rare and their salary is proportionally 

 high. Last fall seven or eight young men who had taken engineering 

 work at Purdue for a year changed their course to take agriculture. 

 Others would have followed their example had they had any encourage- 

 ment from home. In fact several said ther parents would not furnish 

 them money to study agriculture (they could learn that at home), so that 

 in order to get an education they took something else. 



Of our class of nine which graduated last spring from the agricultural 

 department, two have gone to New York State, one as manager of a four- 

 hundred acre farm with twelve men under him, the other to run a cream- 

 ery in connection with the same farm with six helpers; one a chemist in 

 his father's fertilizer works in Indianapolis; one has gone to Oklahoma 

 to run a refrigerator plant, the only one who is not engaged in strictly 

 agricultural pursuits; another who prepared himself for the agricultural 

 press, is now editor of the Orange Judd Farmer, This fellow took a 

 business course at Vories' business college at Indianapolis because his 

 parents objected to his studying agriculture, like many another fond but 

 mistaken parent which he wanted to do in the first place. He stayed 

 with this for some time, even though he didn't like it, but was successful 

 as success goes. He took the short course at Purdue and then came back 

 for the four years' course. He was editor of the college paper last ^ear. 

 After graduation he began to work for the experiment station with Dr. 

 Arthur on rusts. October 1 he resigned to take a position with the 

 Phelps Publishing Company at Springfield, Mass. He came to the Inter- 

 national Live Stock Show at Chicago to report the show. The chief 

 editor of the Orange Judd Farmer, which is published by the same com- 

 pany, was taken ill and my class mate was put in. T]^e remaining four 



