FARM MANAGERS 



4. REVIEW 



I have made the discussions in this chap- 

 ter because I am convinced, from a consid- 

 erable experience, that these things need to 

 be said in order to put the subject before 

 the people on its merits and to correct mis- 

 apprehensions. In other occupations and 

 professions there is a form of experience 

 and custom by which we determine salaries 

 and wages, and measure the performance 

 of the man. In the reorganizing of agri- 

 culture, we yet have no such standards. 



A course of college instruction in agri- 

 culture, however complete, cannot be 

 expected to do more for a man than a 

 comparable course in law or medicine or 

 mechanics can do for its students ; perhaps 

 it can do even less, so far as practical re- 

 sults are concerned, because every farm 

 business is a very local problem. Yet a 

 man should be much better prepared for 

 practical farm-manager work by a college 

 training than the same man would be with- 

 out it. The competitions and complexities, 

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