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years. To begin with, he secures all possible data as to their con- 

 ditions. He is expected to devote his time to teaching the dairymen 

 and farmers how to produce more and better dairy products by 

 breeding up their herds and by the use of more scientific methods 

 of feeding. He is supposed to spend a part of his time with their 

 creamery. This work, as we understand it, is to be under the di- 

 rection of B. H. Rawl, Chief of the Dairy Division, Washington, D. 

 C. Mr. Rawl has asked the professor in dairying at Ames and the 

 State Food and Dairy Commissioner to co-operate with him in the 

 management of the work and they have consented to do so. 



We consider this a work of the greatest importance; the fact 

 that most of the worl: will be directly with the producer and that 

 the government expert comes in direct contact with the man who 

 owns the cows makes it a most novel and interesting experiment. 



THE YOUNG MAN SHOULD STAY ON THE FARM. 



Many of us getting into the afternoon of life can easily recall 

 the fact that not more than a score of years ago if there were three 

 or four boys in a family on the farm, it was very generally 

 decided that the one showing the most marked characteristics as to 

 business ability, should be sent to town as most any of them could 

 farm. 



Under present conditions we know of no reason why this should 

 be so, as there is no more dignified or respectable calling than that 

 of a successful dairy farmer. There is none other that will put a 

 greater premium on brains. Therefore, the young man or boy who 

 may be anxious to get to the city or town may be overlooking an 

 opportunity to make himself a most useful and influential citizen 

 of our commonwealth by leaving the farm. If you have the ele- 

 ments that go to make up a successful career they may as well be 

 developed in this vocation as any other, and the chances are that 

 a competency for old age is as apt to be accumulated as though you 

 went to the "city. We recently learned that about eighty-five per 

 cent of the street car conductors and motormen in a city of 150,000 

 inhabitants were formerly boys on the farm. We do not refer to 

 this out of any disrespect to these men, but to show that only a 

 small per cent of those leaving the farm find very easy or lucrative 



