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scope of dairy instruction has enlarged, it has been handicapped 

 by its inadequate building. It was not built with special reterence to a 

 Dairy School. In fact, the Dairy School as we know it now did not 

 then exist and was not foreseen. The building thus erected with 

 small means and for miscellaneous uses is no more fit for the modern 

 Dairy School and other purposes connected with it than the old 

 district schoolhouse is fitted for the work of a modern High School. 

 We have done the best work we could against overwhelming obstacles 

 for twelve years, but we have finally given it up as hopeless. 



Now why are these things thus? Is there any need of their being 

 thus? Are they thus elsewhere? And what is the remedy? 



I believe these questions can be best answered and the points I 

 wish to make be best apprehended if I formulate, as it were, a cate- 

 chism. My diction may be less elegant, but my ideas may be more lucid 

 when thus expressed. 



Why is the dairy school so poorly housed ? 



Because of lack of building funds. 



Are not such schools in other states better equipped? 



Far better. 



If so, since Vermont is the typical dairy state, ought not its school to 

 have an adequate building? 



Unquestionably. 



Then why doesn't it ? 



Because there are no funds and never have been funds available for 

 its erection. 



How have the schools in other states been supplied with buildings? 



Without exception by State appropriation. 



Has not this been the case in Vermont? 



No. 



How the?t was the present building erected ? 



With money belonging to the University. 



Was not this money really state funds ? 



Far from it. One hundred and thirteen years ago Vermont gave 

 the University certain wild lands. Fifteen years ago and annually since 

 Vermont appropriated $6,000, mostly for scholarships. Similar grants 

 she allots to Middlebury and Norwich. Vermont has never spent a 

 penny for buildings at the University. 



Is it not commonly thought that the State suppoi'ts the Dairy School, 

 the entire College and the Experiment Station to boot? 



Yes; but nothing could be further from the truth. Less than 7 

 per cent, of the college income and less than 6 per cent, of the station 

 income comes from the State. As for the Dairy School, not a cent is 

 thus derived. 



How is it that the State Treasurer's report shows $33,130 annual 

 State appropriation to the college? 



These are simply moneys paid into his office by the United States 

 for college purposes and by him paid to the College. They flow into 

 and out of the State treasury and appear on both the receipts and dis- 



