THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



1. THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED 



This kind of communication is typical of 

 many that come to me with requests for 

 college men to take charge of farms. Very 

 often it is a worn-out or run-down place 

 that is in need of a manager, and the owner 

 is willing to let the man have half the earn- 

 ings if he is successful in bringing it into a 

 profitable condition. In some cases, the 

 owner is not able to find any one who knows 

 the place to rent it, and he is obliged to 

 look abroad for a manager. 



There is such widespread misunder- 

 standing of the problems involved in these 

 questions that I cannot refrain from invit- 

 ing my reader to a discussion of the merits 

 of the case. There must be a complete 

 readjustment of ideas in respect to the re- 

 muneration that educated men are to re- 

 ceive in agriculture, and it is time that we 

 face the question. I understand, of course, 

 that a graduate of any institution may be 

 glad to work for a time merely for experi- 

 ence, but of this I am not now speaking : I 

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