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the value of money and the need of care in spending it. 



The young man who gets his training by apprentice- 

 ship can not begin to get the theoretical principles which 

 must be combined with the practical for the highest de- 

 gree of success. 



It is true that the man of average college age can not 

 master in four short years a thorough knowledge of the 

 practical and theoretical details of all of these branches, 

 but his mind is trained to think and to investigate. After 

 graduation he is prepared to grasp the problems which 

 confront him and to solve them in a masterly way. He 

 has a knowledge of horticultural and agricultural liter- 

 ature and if he needs information he knows where to 

 find it. It has been said by a noted writer that education 

 does not consist of the amount of information one car- 

 ries in his brain, but in the ability to know where to find 

 the information which he desires when he needs it. 



There is frequent criticism that the graduates of agri- 

 cultural colleges are not practical. This is sometimes a 

 just criticism in individual cases, for men vary in the 

 ability to put into application the principles which they 

 have been taught, but in the majority of cases this is not 

 true at the present time. There is today a close relation 

 between the practical and the theoretical in agricultural 

 education. The college instructor realizes that his stu- 

 dents have got to know how to do things before they 

 can supervise the work of others. It has always beeri 

 conceded that the mechanical engineer must know how 

 to run an engine and- the surveyoV how to operate a 

 transit, but too many men have been graduated from 

 agricultural colleges who never under-drained a field, 

 milked a cow, harnessed a horse, glazed a greenhouse, 

 pruned a tree or harvested a vegetable. The best agri- 

 cultural colleges are now demanding that the men ac- 

 tually do these things and many more before they grant 

 a diploma. 



Within recent years there has been a more cordial co- 

 operation between agricultural and horticultural indus- 

 tries, and the agricultural colleges, to mutual advantage. 

 The colleges have learned how they can be of the most 

 service and the courses of study have been adapted to 

 meet this end. It is realized that not every young man 

 is fitted for a general four years' college course. He has 

 not the time or money to devote to it. However, he does 

 desire and need help on special subjects. To meet the 

 needs of these individuals, some colleges now offer spe- 

 cial courses for men of mature years, who have had 

 suitable educational preparation so that they may come 

 to these institutions for one or two years and take 

 courses in just those subjects they are especially inter- 

 ested in. The institution with which the writer is con- 

 nected offers such a course and it has proven a valuable 

 feature of the work. Men who desire special informa- 

 tion on greenhouse work, landscape gardening, vegetable 

 growing, dairying, fruit growing or poultry raising are 

 taking up these subjects along with closely related sub- 

 jects, such as chemistry, plant diseases, insects, soils and 

 fertilizers, and are getting a vast amount of information 

 in a comparatively short time. Most of these men have 

 already had a large amount of practical experience in 

 the special subject of their study and this makes the 

 courses all the more valuable to them. These men arc 

 given no diploma or certificate. They come for what 

 they can get out of the courses offered. 



Then again this college offers exceptional opportu- 

 nities by a ten weeks' short course during January, Feb- 

 ruary and the first of March, when men may come to 

 the college to get in a condensed form in a short time 

 much that is given in the longer courses. They meet 

 men witli kindred interests and derive much benefit from 



an interchange of ideas. Men engaged in practical 

 agricultural and horticultural pursuits come to the col- 

 lege for lectures on special subjects, and these men give 

 to the students many suggestions which their experiences 

 have proven to be valuable. 



Then there are correspondence courses in agricultural 

 and horticultural subjects for those who can not leave 

 their home duties. The lectures, text books and ques- 

 tions are sent out to the people taking the courses. These 

 questions are answered and the papers are sent for cor- 

 rection to the instructor giving the course. They are 

 then graded and returned to the students. 



Experiment station bulletins, extension lectures, ex- 

 tension schools, demonstration orchards and the like are 

 now carrying to busy agricultural people information for 

 which they do not come to the colleges. 



The gardener's profession is an exacting one and it 

 requires a man of broad mental ability to master it. It 

 is taking on more dignity year by year and the future 

 seems to hold greater possibilities along this line of work 

 for the educated man than has the past. To the young 

 man who possesses a love for the work, a desire for all 

 the information and the best information he can get re- 

 garding his work, all things are possible. These men 

 are the ones the great captains of industry in the com- 

 mercial world are seeking to manage their country es- 

 tates, so that these estates will be as they were intended 

 to be, a relaxation from the stress of business life, not 

 an added care and responsibility. The remuneration 

 received by the gardener will, in a large measure, depend 

 on the individual. 



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