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to resign his position, the company was so anxious to keep him that 

 they ofifecgd him three thousand dollars a year. He was not one of 

 the discards of the manufacturing world, but was offered three 

 times the salary the average farmer makes in a year. I told him 

 that unless he was unusually successful in farming, he could never 

 hope to make the same amount in farming. That made no differ- 

 ence; he was determined to try it for at least a year, and, then, he 

 said, he would have the satisfaction of either knowing that he could 

 do it, or that he must go back to the shop. 



These are two practical illustrations of the class of city men that 

 come to us. Now, about college men. We had ten graduates of the 

 best agricultural colleges in the country in the Guild the first year. 

 Three of them fell off quickly. One of them it seems, had been on 

 the farm, and knew how to do farm work, but was not willing to do 

 it, and wanted to tell us how to run the farm. There were plenty 

 of things to criticise on these farms; there always are. He was 

 always criticising, and wanting to get into a responsible position 

 at once; so we let him go. Two others fell by the way because they 

 had not the physical strength to farm, or willingness to do the work 

 mapped out. The other men, five of whom had farm experience, had 

 grown up on good farms, and then had a college training, went to 

 work at the bottom, at twenty-five dollars a month. Within a 

 month they were advanced to thirty, and worked for that for two 

 or three months, advancing from time to time, until today those 

 men, with only six mouths training in the Guild, are in positions that 

 give them opportunity for growth and development, and they are 

 getting very comfortable salaries. We expect to pay all a man is 

 worth, but we distinctly emphasize the quality of the work, rather 

 than pay for it. I say to these young men "you can get more money 

 by teaching, or going on the farm of some wealthy man who does 

 not know much your services are worth to him, but you will not 

 get the practical experience; if you want to get into contact with 

 the best men, and are determined to go into Agriculture, we have 

 the best inducement to offer." If your business associatins are such 

 that you want to take up this work, we want your energy and time 

 and your brains, to help us to elevate the status of Agriculture." 



