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ing for Agriculture that he would put into his training for law or medi- 

 cine he will in the great majority of cases make more money, enjoy greater 

 freedom, better health and develop stronger character." — The Intelli- 

 gencer, Mexico, Mo. 



Prof. F. B. Munford, acting dean of the Agricultural Department, 

 Alissouri State University, thinks an Agricultural education is worth more 

 than a gold mine. He says : "I have had calls for at least fifty men during 

 the past year at salaries varying from $600 to $2,500 a year. Agricultural 

 papers want editors, owners of orchards, managers ; colleges, teachers, 

 and the Department of Agriculture, research men. Most any kind of 

 graduate of the department can start as experiment station assistant at 

 S600 a year, while the good men have no trouble in getting much better 

 salaries. The best field open to ambitious young men today is Agricvilture. 

 It is the education that pays biggest dividends." Thus whether con- 

 sidered as a political or financial asset a college education is becoming 

 exceedingly valuable. — Colman's Rural World. 



FURNACE FOR DRYFIOUSE. 



(M. P. Wilson, Washington.) 



A furnace I have used for seven years in my prune evaporator in 

 Washington, is a brick arch 15 feet long and about three feet high and 

 20 inches wide, inside. The main point of. difference is in the cast iron 

 flues running through the arch on an incline. When I put them in my 

 furnace it cut my fuel bill to one-third, and a more uniform and steady- 

 heat is obtained. These flues are 4-inch soil pipe, and the plastered in ; 

 the lower end opens in the cold air box, which extends along each side 

 of the brick arch, and the upper end into air chamber. My hot-air 

 chamber is lined with sheet iron, although brick would be better, and is 

 seven feet high ; the smoke pipe runs from the chimney directly over the 

 arch, and an elbow carries it up to the upper floor, then to the ventilator 

 flue, through which it passes, thus helping the exhaust or draft. 



My present holding capacity is 2,200 pounds of green fruit, although 

 double this amount could be put in, and to good advantage. With less 

 than one-third cord of four-foot pine wood per 24 hours, I can run 

 through 800 pounds per day, and have averaged that amount for a 

 week with unpitted Italian prunes. There is no trouble to get 150 degrees 

 on lower trays, and we are compelled to run on lower temperature to 

 prevent bleaching of green fruit on upper trays. One man at a time 



