The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
in 53 
Boys Who 
Some Agricultural College Graduates 
The young men shown in the accom¬ 
panying picture were students at the Con¬ 
necticut Agricultural College in the class 
of 1906. That was 14 years ago. We 
doubt whether those young men would 
care to climb on each other’s shoulders 
now. or attempt to play the acrobat gen¬ 
erally. It will be interesting to see what 
has become of them, and the following 
statement from Prof. Garrigus of the col¬ 
lege tells the story : 
Lower row—D. J. Minor is a dairy 
farmer at Bristol, Conn. He is secretary 
of the Connecticut Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion and manager of the Bristol Co-opera¬ 
tive Farmers’ Exchange. Fred 11. Miller 
is a practicing veterinarian and lives at 
Fitchburg. Mass. 
Second row—G. II. Gallup is farming at 
Ekonk, Conn., and is prominently identi¬ 
fied with Grange work. C. J. Grant, 
Springfield, Mass., has been County Agent 
for the famous Ilampdeu County Im¬ 
provement League since May. 1913. lie 
was instrumental in launching the East¬ 
ern States movement. Dr. II. B. Risley, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.. is senior veterinarian 
at Borns Veterinary Hospital. R. J. 
Tryon. South Glastonbury. Conn., is a 
tobacco farmer, combining diversified 
crops with this specialty. 
Top row—T. C. Waters, Rocky Hill, 
Conn., is a fruit-grower, specializing in 
apples. A. W. Sweeton, Canton. Conn., 
runs a dairy farm, with diversified crops. 
Before taking up farming he was for four 
years County Agent in Windsor County, 
Vt., where he made a marked success. 
Mark Bishop. Cheshire, Conn., raises 
fruit, truck and livestock, and is a leader 
in his community. 
None of the group, as is shown by the 
summary, has succumbed to the white- 
collar. swivel-chair life of which agricul¬ 
tural graduates are sometimes accused. 
Six of the nine are operating farms. You 
Made Good 
cannot say that a veterinarian or County 
Agent has strayed far from agriculture. 
Three agricultural graduates of the 
same class are not shown in the picture. 
They are: J. H. Barker. Branford, Conn., 
farmer and town selectman ; David B. Al- 
cott, New York City, land appraiser for 
Federal Loan Bank at Springfield; Wal¬ 
ter L. Curtis, New York City, vet¬ 
erinarian. All of these boys, now men. 
are making good. Prof. Garrigus con¬ 
tends that any agricultural college might 
well be proud. Modern college students 
dress a little niftier than some of these 
chaps appear in the picture, but if they 
apply their agricultural training as thor¬ 
oughly within the next few years as have 
these men, there will be no grounds for 
criticism. 
A Farmer’s Wanderings 
Many of our readers will remember the 
account of the journey undertaken by 
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Olds of Mich¬ 
igan some years ago. They started from 
home with horse and wagon and drove to 
Florida and back, stopping at Hope Farm 
on their way. They had many strange 
and interesting adventures, and after a 
season at home they rented their farm 
and started wandering once more, this 
time to the West. They did not take a 
horse or an auto, but traveled as they 
pleased by railroad, stopping wherever 
they felt like it, and going on at will. 
At times they took a job at farming or 
boarding, or carpentering, or anything 
that pleased them, though there was no 
financial need of doing it. Now they are 
home again, and we have the following 
report from Mr. Olds: 
We left home December, 1918; helped 
build a railroad bridge in Texas, and Mrs. 
Olds cooked in a camp car for 14 men. 
We visited the Roosevelt dam and the 
cliff dwellers’ ruins in Arizona, and the 
Grand Canyon of the Colorado. We 
worked on a fruit ranch for five months 
in California. Mrs. Olds cooked for IS 
here. We camped 10 days in Yellow¬ 
stone Park. I worked in the shipyards 
in Seattle. We visited Vancouver. B. C.. 
and then back to San Francisco, Cal., for 
a month. We went south into Old Mex¬ 
ico and then back north into the Imperial 
Valley, where the land is 260 feet below 
the sea level. We camped in Y'osemite 
Park, shoveled snow a foot deep from 
around our tent. We went to church in 
the Mormon Tabernacle, and rode 
through the Royal Gorge in Colorado. 
We traveled 10.000 miles by rail—mostly 
in day 1 light-—and visited 24 States. We 
earned all of our railroad fare. We were 
away from home 16 months, and are back 
home now. ready to start in on the old 
farm again, which looks the best of any 
place we have seen. \vu. a. olds. 
Michigan. 
In the most productive section of the 
county, a few miles back from the rail¬ 
road. I counted 10 empty farmhouses in 
one school district. Farms were bought 
at high prices, present owners holding for 
speculative activities in real estate. La¬ 
borers are offered 62%c an hour, and none 
to be had. Farms occupied worked by 
the farmer and his family; not occupied, 
grass and fruit sold on the farms, the 
buyer to do all the work. No repairs or 
paint on any of the farms; the crop of 
bushes to go with the farms when sold. 
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