. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Ipll BETTER FRUIT Page 85 EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURAL MEN IN DEMAND THE great demand for trained men in the horticultural world is well illus- trated by th-e fact that the head of the department of horticulture at the Ore- gon Agricultural College, Professor C. I. Lewis, has had thirteen calls for gradu- ates to fill positions of importance on large fruit ranches owned by wealthy corporations and individuals within the past month which he is unable to satisfy because all of the graduates are either conducting fruit ranches of their own or have already obtained prof
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Ipll BETTER FRUIT Page 85 EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURAL MEN IN DEMAND THE great demand for trained men in the horticultural world is well illus- trated by th-e fact that the head of the department of horticulture at the Ore- gon Agricultural College, Professor C. I. Lewis, has had thirteen calls for gradu- ates to fill positions of importance on large fruit ranches owned by wealthy corporations and individuals within the past month which he is unable to satisfy because all of the graduates are either conducting fruit ranches of their own or have already obtained profitable situ- ations. A large corporation in Maryland, con- trolling several thousands of acres in orchards, is contemplating putting in some thousands of acres more in fruit trees, and has applied to Professor Lewis for a man of sufficient experience to demand a salary of $2,500. An Eastern university wrote Professor Lewis recently asking him to recom- mend a man for the position of head of the department of horticulture there. A foreman for the combined holdings of two of Portland's leading business men who have large fruit ranches in the Willamette Valley has also been asked for from among the college graduates. One of the largest development com- panies on the Pacific Coast, having thou- sands of acres in their holdings, and making extensive developments involv- ing the expenditure of enormous sums of money, wants an O. A. C. graduate as superintendent of their work, and will give $2,000 to the right man. From Eastern Oregon there has come a call for a foreman to take charge of some 6,000 acres held by a syndicate of thirty Dakotans, to see to the planting of orchards, spraying, irrigation work and to carry the entire responsibility for the welfare of the enterprise. An immense Eastern concern, repre- senting over a million dollars in capital, is now making extensive developments in various parts of Oregon, and is asking the college department of horticulture for a superinte
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