THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



dents are properly high-price men because 

 they are mature and have had much prac- 

 tice, and they come to college to supple- 

 ment their experience-knowledge. 



These salaries are all within reason, and 

 they must be paid if good men are to be se- 

 cured. The modern farm business must 

 compete with the public service and the 

 schools and with commercial organizations 

 if it is to secure men of equal qualifications. 

 Those farms that cannot pay such sums 

 are not expected to compete : they are not 

 in the managership grade; they must be 

 run on the family proprietorship plan, and 

 of these I am not now speaking. 



Students 9 replies 



The replies to my question as to the rea- 

 son for stating the given figures of value of 

 services, fall under six categories : 



1. The student considers himself to be 

 worth to his employer the full amount 

 of the pay that he mentions. 



2. One cannot afford to give his services 

 for less than these figures after hav- 



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