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you decide that if records can tell you incorporated. "I don't want my death
how to clear $1,000 more in year than to mean tangles and delays," says MY.
neighbor Cornforth.
your
The partners own 2,000
clears the official figures show just acres of land worth now from $25 to
Mr. Cornforth paid
such cases why, you'll keep records. $30 an acre.
But first you've got to get your $1.25 an acre for the land, buying it
He's made
farm. And buying land isn't so easy with borrowed money.
his own way entirely.
these days.
"But you bought your land from
You "remember hearing about a
"Could
young Iowa farmer who is fairly fraz- the government," yodj-ealize- .
zling himself out to keep a farm he a young man without money get
He bought when started out here now?"
bought on time.
land was sky high, at something over
"I know well some who have," Mr.
two hundred dollars an acre. Then Cornforth answers. "In the last few
came a spell of poor prices. That years, four different young men have
young fellow is working, worrying, worked for me, saved three or four
growing old just to keep his interest hundred dollars apiece, rented farms
And he's a on shares, then bought on time, and
paid. Can't do more.
good farmer; has a fine head, was are now well on their way to full
reared on a farm, and was graduated ownership."
from an exceptionally good agriculThat's good to hear. . . So is Mrs.
tural college. If he can't make a go Cornforth's, "Come to' dinner now."
?
of it, what chance have you
on a ranch!
And such a
. Dinner
"Precious little," Mr. Casement says, dinner roast chicken, currant jelly,
"if you buy land at too high a price. candied sweet potatoes, Waldorf salBut you needn't give up the idea of ad, plum pudding. You'll never tell
owning your own farm if you'll go how much you ate!
where land values aren't too much inThen on to the Carnahan
flated and study prices and conditions with Mr. Cornforth, Sr., making ranch,
a conbefore you invest. Decide what you genial third.
farming,
want to try diversified
As you drive along, you'learn much
dairying, cattle raising, fruit growing.
Then buy your land, cautiously, intel- about Al Carnahan and his six sons,

sure before you start that you're pickjob.- - Do yoilr own deciding,
and take time enough to investigate
thoroughly both yourself and the work
you think you'd like to do. There.
That's off my mind. What's next?"
i"Is it absolutely necessary for a fellow
to college?"
"No," Mr. Casement says briskly.
"But I'd go for three reasons."
"Here's one. If you go to an agricultural college, you'll accumulate
knowledge
much useful,
valuable to any farmer, but especially
valuable to a town bred boy whose
farming experience has been limited
to working on farms in vacations.
"And here's another reason. If you
go to a good agricultural college,
you're likely to meet some big men,
men who will help develop vision in
you. Some of these men may be on
your college faculty. Others may visAnd you may meet
it the college.
still others through winning special ligently.
ranging from thirteen-year-ol- d
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honors. For instance, if you go to
to Dewey, the oldest, some"And you need not begrudge the where in his early twenties. The sevg
on a
.unicago
ieam,
money for
..some older man may invite you to time you'll spend in earning
en Carnahans run the ranch.
And
junch at the Saddle and Sirloin Club your down payment. You'll be learn- they must run the ranch home, too,
and introduce to a big ranch owner, ing all the time, whether you are for the mother is dead. Shortly after
or a prominent Chicago packer, or an working as a general hired man, or her death, the father had a good
Such men managing someone's dairy, or acting chance to sell the ranch. But he didArgentina cattle buyer.
give you glimpses of unusual oppor- as si county agricultural agent, or n't sell.
Where else could a man
tunities, drop ideas that spur you on. running a ranch hoodlum wagon tot- bring up six boys, keep them all toing along the beds and rustling fire- gether and contented?
"Sometimes, one of them can offer wood and water for the cook. Many
a boy an interesting chance. A prom- a man has earned his start in one of
"You couldn't get those boys away
ising cub I know, who had just com- these ways."
from it now," says Mr. Cornforth.
pleted his college course, got a chance
"They're a happy clan. Dewey has
"How do you get such a job?" you helped his father a lot in making
to go down to Argentina with a bunch
that
of cattle. The cub went, keen for the ask.
done a husky"
ranch a real
"Fit yourself for it by hard work in man's work home;the place and
adventure and thinking he'd learn
on
enough to pay him for the time he'd college and in your summer vacations. at the same time looked after the
He worked Then go after any good chance you house and the younger' boys. They're
invest. He did better.
on a ranch down therefor a year or can learn about from college authori- great youngsters.
Dewey's had a
so; came back home with a thousand ties, friends, or acquaintances. Work- year or so at the Colorado Agricultur,
ers are in demand."
dollars in his pockets and more than
al College, and some of the others will
"That's good," you reflect. Then: go this next fall.
a thousand dollars' worth of knowlAll but the two
edge about Argentine methods in 'his "But I wish I could be sure I'd like youngest have finished high school.
farming. So many people don't."
head.
Two of them took highest honors at
"I know," Mr. Casement nods. North Denver High."
"Of course, you won't be offered any
such chance unless you make yourself "Too many people try farming .and
Mr. Cornforth breaks off to point a
good enough so that older men size fail. I can usually see why. Yet I'd
You
sale pavilion you're passing.
not urge any boy into farming."
you up as worth while."
read the name on it: "Elbert County
You both sit staring into the fire.
ruefully.
. ,YU grin a. bit
Shorthorn Breeders' Association."
Then Mr. Casement says suddenly:
"You can do it," Mr. Casement nods.
"Yes, we Shorthorn men around
third reason, a reason "But I'd like to do this. I'd like to
"And here's the
here got together and built it," Mr.
my father gave me when I was a cub. drive you out to see some people who Cornforth says.
"We had to have
'As a farmer,' he told me, 'you'll lead are happy on the land. People who some place to auction our cattle. We
Out here in
.a more or less isolated life. Go to started with nothing.
have 50 stalls there and 350 seats. It
college and develop resources within this Divide country. A little group
cost us $1800.
yourself. If you enjoy reading and of Shorthorn breeders, making good
You've heard about how farmers
thinking, you're not likely to be lonely in Hereford territory. Making sur- won't
about how group
and you're ndt likely to get into prisingly good! We Hereford breed- enterprises fall through.
You know
people, they call us
ers white-face- d
ruts.' "
they do, all too frequently. Yet here
You stare into the fire. You want because our Hereford cattle all have
white faces far outnumber them; we are men who cooperate and win
to go to college all right. But
Years of College
feel strongly that Shorthorns aren't Grand Championship prizes five years
Sir
out of six!
"Wilbur Cochel worked his way the best cattle for this section. Yet
Friendly Fighters
through college," remarked Mr. Case- in five years out of six, this handful
Presently, you reach your Third
counment "You may know him as the of Shorthorn men in white-fac- e
recently appointed editor of the week- try has walked away with the Grand Stop: The Carnahans' ranch.
Dewey,
You like
ly "Kansas City Star," one of our Championship prize awarded at the
best agricultural publications. At the Denver cattle show to the best car- who happens to be the first Carnahan
you meet. You like his friendly, untime of his appointment. Mr. oocnei load of feeder calves. It's the calibre
was a successiui liiniiti una u im of the men, not the calibre of the abashed way of welcoming visitors,
two of whom are big cattle men. You
portant official of the American cattle, that's winning."
"Who won that other year?" you like his answer, to Mr.. Cornforth's
Shorthorn Breeders' Association. Prebantering, "Can 'ou give us a job?"
viously, he had held high positions on ask him.
"Well," Dewey grins judiciously,
two different college faculties; he had
"I did," Dan Casement admits with
been head of the Department of Ani a twinkle, and hurries on: "Now if "what can you do?" Then, dropping
mal Husbandry at Pennslyvania State you can stay over, we'll visit two or humor for hospitality, he urges you to
We'll start get out and come in.
College, and later held a similar posi- three ranches
You're more that glad to do it.
tion at Kansas State Agricultural Col- early, and I'll have you back for the
With friendly Carnahans swarming
lege. And he's earned his own way, night train. What do you say?"
all around, you roam from yard to'
You know what you'd say!
from the bottom up.
d
bulls, and
country boy, Wil- Ranchers Who Started With Nothing yard, visiting
"A
springy-legge- d
calves.
bur Cochel entered the University of
The following early morning finds
And
Missouri with just five dollars in his you winding out northeast of Colora calves. Even you know that.
pocket.
Mere chance led him to se- do Springs in Mr. Casement s closed Mr. Casement fairly loses himself in
d
lect the classical course; he hasn't re- car, through grass lands where buf- scientifically analyzing one
youngster's good points.
They're good
gretted it. Probably his present edi- faloes once grazed.
Dewey covers his pleasure in an ex
This is great
torship came to him partly because of grazing lands still.
pert's praise with a
that thorough early training in ex- cattle country.
After he had reAnd this is going to be a great day. jibe: "That calf would be all right
pressing himself.
ceived his A. B., he put in two years
First Stop: The Peterson's ranch. if he only had a white face, eh, Mr.
work in animal hus- Or, rather, one of the Peterson ranch- Casement?"
at
The finest sort of rivals, these par
bandry. That made six years of earn- es.
There are twelve Petersons.
ing his own way by doing odd jobs Eleven run ranches; one runs a gar- ticular Shorthorn and Hereford
Generous enemies.
You
breeders.
around town and working on the col- age.
lege farm.
Their father came to America to hadn't realized that work on the land
"He probably missed some good find a home in a country where his could hold so much of the best kind
things in college life. But he gained children might in their turn find of football spirit.
Gaunt, grizzled Mr. Carnahan tells
others, things that have helped make homes, good homes. He brought little
you proudly that there" are 2,560 acres
money, but he got what he sought
him outstanding.
"Many other men have worked their out there in Colorado. Paid for it in the ranch, and 450 head of cattle
on the place. "And I hadn t a cent
may through college or are doing it with hard work, and counted it
when I came here."
privilege.
now."
You learn that they use about 2,000
Then: ."You
His sons are the same sort. Happy
"I see," you .say.
.spoke of working on a farm in vaca- at hard work. Prosperous at it. You acres as range and farm 500 acres
tion time. Can a town bojr get a job meet the two who own this first No place for a lazy man. They keep
Lean, boyish, enthusiastic busy, the Carnahans.
on a farm?"
ranch.
'I suppose you'll all be in partner
"He can, as a rule, if he's willing to men. They point out their best calves,
work. And, of course, the better the bring out a shining "quarter-horse- "
farmer for whom Jie works, the better for you to meet ,tell you proudly that
in 22
he has run his quarter-mil- e
the farming experience he'll get,
"If you're alert, you can pick up a seconds. Meanwhile the shining fav
Jot of useful information.. And when orite nudges his master's arm and
a farmer sees that you're really inter- nickers softly
"Companionship with a good horse
ested in farming, he'll be glad to tell
you all he can. I know I enjoy having is a liberal education," Mr; Casement
young chap working remarks as you drive on. "It's one
a
with me.
of the things that makes farming or
"I suppose a good many ask for a ranching worth while."
chance to this?" you "hazard.
Next Stop: The Cornforth ranch.
Mr. Casement nods. "Yes. Some- On the edge of the "Black Forest"
Always have a clean pair
times one comes from quite a distance. beautiful, rolling, jack pine country,
of trousers to put on.
Not long ago, a young man who has A big ranch as tidy as a New England
been managing his father's, cattle door yard. Three generations of
Trousers
and
ranch near Salisbury, South Africa,
here, father, son and grandson,
wrote asking if he might join me at All young, all happy.
pressed by a
my Manhattan farip and study my
Mr. Cornforth, Sr., introduces you
red and roan and
methods. It's started me wishing to
cleaner
again that more of our boys could white Shorthorns, lamenting whimd
the methods of other sically the Argentine buyers' present
study
"Now
countries. Of course, I told the young fancy for red or dark roan.
you white-fac- e
people don't have to
chap to come on.
"The only time it bothers me to cater to fashions," he says to Mr,
have a young fellow around is when Casement. "Herefords don't come in
the work is cowding, so that I can't all the different shades."
Brown-face- d
Mr. Cornforth, Jr., a
stop to give him pointers."
Colorado Agricultural College man,
iYbu remember then that Dan Casement works right with his men, early points to eighteen or twenty bleating
sheep. "They are down in our budget
and late.
"I want them to respect me as a to bring $300 this year. They'll have
Dad says so."
And he
working leader," he says, "and I like to do it.
to be in the thick of farming opera- grins.
His father grins back. "They'll do
tions."
Mr. Casement's farming operations it," he insists. "Yes, I'm a
farmer, too.
Come into
are carefully planned. He's no
farmer. Each year he records the house and see my office."
Fascinating, that farm office. Big
gains and losses, works out his farm
budgets, makes his plans ahead. desk, little typewriter, farm and ranch
"Cleaners That Satisfy"
Moreover, he has worked out a plan publications of all kinds, walls covered
g
ani
for sharing profits with his men.
with pictures of
But you can't stop right now to mals and attractive ranch scenes.
learn more about farm accounting.
You gather illuminating bits of inMr. Cornforth, Sr., has
You realize, though, that "farming formation.
Lexington, Ky.
with pencil and paper may make a entered into a formal partnership with
big difference inyjjur. income. And .his wife and son. They're regularly

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ship with your father as soon as
you're old enough," you say to Dewey
Carnahan as you're leaving.
"We're all in partnership with him
now," Dewey tells you quietly.
You hate to leave. But you're a
good many miles from your train.
You cover part of those miles in
silence, thinking, watching the sun go
gloriously down behind Pikes Peak.
Presently Mr. Casement says medi
tatively: "You'll find fine men on the
land. Take Conrad Kohrs of Montana, for example. Pioneer. Range
cowman.
State builder. Died six or
seven years ago, but not before he'd
been a big influence in developing the
northwest.
"Then there was David Rankin of
Missouri. A pioneer, too. Through
his own honest efforts, he accumulated
tremendous acreage and farmed in a
big way. He invented agricultural
implements founded a college left
prosperity through the land to his
descendants.
"And there's Dean C. F. Curtiss of
Iowa Agricultural College at Ames.
He's one of the state builders of today. A great agriculturalist, a great
educator, a man of great vision."
After a minute, Mr. Casement adds:
"I could tell you of great scoundrels,
too. You'll find good and bad in everything even jn farming."
There
is seriousness under his quizzical
glance.
You realize that he's warning you,
wanting you to remember that as a
farmer you may meet with frosts and
drouths, poor crops and poor prices,
inefficient help and ornery buyers,
lame horses and sick calves. You'll
remember.
But you've seen this day three different types of families all happy on
the land. Happy and enthusiastic.
Why?
Well, though at first they had little
to go on, they're making good.
Though .they work hard, they work
outdoors and they jilan their own
work. Though they're not entirely
free from worry, they have comfortable homes, and the youngsters are
growing up straight and strong and
The families stand high
in the community. There's fine fighting spirit in their work. . . . Can a
man ask much more?
After all, you conclude, you needn't
be afraid to tackle farming if you
tackle it right.
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tice, brought out more than 50 girls. the Wonder Wave of 1925

Irom the interest and enthusiasm

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ready shown, it looks as
High School Matches for Dis- is going to compete withthough rifle
basketball
trict Arranged by Committee for popularity with the girls this
year.
The committee on debate of the
The second mass athletic meeting
district of the university ex- of the school year will be held some
third
tension department met Tuesday af- time in February. At this meeting
ternoon at the Lafayette hotel and awards of pins, letters and numerals
arranged the schedule of debates to are to be made.
be held by high schools of this vicinity under the auspices of the exEXCHANGE NOTES
tension department of the University of Kentucky..
The University of Chicago has reThis committee of the extension
department is composed of Charles cently received from George Herbert
Jones, director of the Inland Steel
E. Skinner, principal of Lexington
Senior High school, chairman; M. J. Company, a gift of $415,000 for the
Parsons, county superintendent of equipment and endowment of chemFranklin county; J. A. Payne, county istry. Plans are already being made
superintendent of Harrison county; F. by the university for the construction
A. Scott, principal of Paris High of the George Herber Jones chemical
school; and Gradston Kaufman, prin research laboratory which is to be the
first unit of new laboratories devoted
cipal of Frankfort high school.
to fundamental investigations in chemThe schools of the district were di- istry and its relation to medicine
and
vided into four groups with all the industry.
Additional units will be
Lexington schools in the first group. added as funds are contributed.
The first round of debates in each
group will be held on February 8. On
that date Lexington High school will When the Tulane Green Wave met
meet University High. Following all the Auburn Plainsman in the annual
preliminary debates, the winner in football clash the formal "opening of
the district matches will compete with the new $300,000 stadium took place.
district winners from all over the The stadium stands as a monument to.
state at Lexington in the annual tournament in the spring held under the
auspices of the university.

to th
generous contributions of students,
friends, alumni and others whose relentless efforts gave to Tulane and
the City of New Orleans the finest
stadium in the Southland.
A bronze tablet is to be imbedded
in the cement in front of the Tulane
stands in commemoration of the 1925
Wave, and is to contain the.names m
all the players on the team whleh
made Tulane rise to peerless heiglils
in the football world. The Tuhw
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Registration of all cars owned ar
operated by students is required at
Washington State College.
Drivers
under 21 must have cards signed by
their parents. Information on the
cards will include the make of car,
motor number, and other means at
identification. All penalties for violation of traffic laws will be given
by a committee chosen for that pur
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"Owning and operating a hotel" is
a new course instituted at Western
Reserve University. Everything from
kitchen to manager is included in the
course. Aid and suggestions have
come from Cornell, where a similar
course is offered.

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