AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



The University of Arizona College of Agriculture is especially 

 concerned at this time in meeting the emergency educational re- 

 quirements that it may be made to serve. The opportunities that 

 now await the trained agriculturist particularly relate (1) to active 

 farming operations in which any one with a fair degree of skill and 

 business ability has now unusually good chances to prosper. Such 

 staples as alfalfa, with dependent livestock industries ; cotton, and 

 others of the fifty commercial crops that may be growai in this 

 region, offer varied opportunities for the exercise of skill and ad- 

 vanced knowledge on the part of the investing proprietor. Land 

 values are yet comparatively moderate in this region and young 

 men with agricultural training and some practical experience on 

 the farm are recommended to take up farming as a permanent occu- 

 pation. (2) Many opportunities in agricultural industries, those 

 directly connected with farming operations, afford a second class of 

 opportunities for which scientific agricultural training is indispen- 

 sable. Creameries, canned-milk factories, dairies, alfalfa meal mills, 

 canneries, small packing houses, pickling establishments, cotton 

 gins, oil presses, fruit-drying establishments, pedigreed seeds, pure 

 bred livestock, and fancy specialties of all kinds are instances of the 

 industries that, properly conducted, may become foundations for 

 profitable businesses. (3) Professional agriculture affords still an- 

 other class of opportunities to the agricultural college graduate. At 

 this time there is an unusually strong demand at excellent salaries 

 for trained men to serve in technical Government positions, as 

 county agents in the Extension Service, as reclamation and forest 

 service employes, and as teachers of agriculture in schools and 

 colleges. 



In the wide field of Southwestern agriculture we therefore 

 have opportunities suited to every temperament, to dift'erent de- 

 grees of training, and to varying personal situations ; and particular 

 effort is being made at this time to bring those young men and 

 women not otherwise called upon for service in time of war to entjr 

 some one of the several educational courses in agriculture ofi'ered 

 for their consideration. 



The College of Agriculture has attempted to so arrange the cur- 

 riculum that students who have taken a large part of their instruc- 



