Educational Requirements
You who have grown up on a farm have acquired a practical education that is invaluable. Of course school training and even advanced courses are valuable and will greatly assist you, but it is our desire to impress you with the fact that you can succeed though your schooling has been meager.
Technical Training
Either with or without agricultural experience you will find in the agricultural colleges and high schools opportunity for advanced study. The agricultural colleges report gratifying increase in the application of city-bred boys for courses. If you are a city boy you will have no handicap of undesirable or old-fashioned ways of farming to overcome, which are often difficult to eliminate. Books, specific knowledge, and scientific training rightly applied mean efficiency and success.
Method of Training
Methods of training will of necessity vary with the vocational course adopted. There will be training in various specialties, and opportunity for making yourself proficient in more than one line of work. Following your primary training you will be given opportunity to engage in practical work. After completing your course and returning home, you may continue your training in a local agricultural high school, or in special classes, such as are now being formed in numerous locations. Instructors can always be secured for special classes meeting in the evening or on two or three afternoons each week in the winter time when activities on the farm are at a minimum. These classes and the lectures secured now and then have been the inspiration to many to take regular agricultural courses in high schools or in State colleges, and you may thus arrange to take advanced technical training.
What You Will Learn in Training
You will be given opportunity to learn the essential things in the line you have chosen, and taught ways and means of overcoming your handicap. The extent of the course as to training and also its duration will depend solely on your needs and desire. The more you undertake the more you will accomplish and the greater will be your efficiency and your ability to go “over the top” as an agriculturist, or as a specialist in some selected line.