COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. 34I 



Employment Bureau. 



The College is frequently requested to recommend trained 

 men for positions as butter makers, farm managers, poultrymen, 

 orchardists, teachers, and agricultural exiperts. In order that 

 these inquiries m^ight receive the most careful attention, an em- 

 ployment bureau was organized last year by the Extension De- 

 partment, in cooperation with the Maine Associaion of Agri- 

 cultural Students. It is the aim of this bureau to keep in close 

 touch with 'tlhe work of the graduates of the College of Agricul- 

 ture, and thus be able to make recommendations to those who 

 may require the services of trained and experienced men. 



Needs of the College. 



If all the needs of the College were to be enumerated, they 

 would present a formidable list, but it is intended in this repo;:t 

 only to set forth tihose needs which appear most pressing and 

 at the same time most important. 



Dairy Barns. — In a report made by the President of the 

 University eight years ago, the need for new dairy barns was 

 clearly set forth and the nee'd of the College in this respect has 

 since then been growing more apparent each year. The present 

 barns are neither sanitary, con<venient nor of suitable size for 

 carrying on the work of the College, educationally or commer- 

 cially, to the greatest advantage to the students or profit to the 

 state. They should be supplanted by modern barns, well 

 adapted to all the purposes of the institution. 



Horse Barns. — The 'horse barns are in a dilapidated condi- 

 tion arid new ones should be provided for in the near future. 

 It 'has been suggested that one of the present dairy barns might 

 be remodelled for the housing of horses and it is possible that 

 this plan could ibe worked out satisfactorily. 



Dairy Building. — ^The present dairy building is now outgrown, 

 and it will be impossible for all students of whom dairy work 

 is require'd, to take the subject the coming year. This is a very 

 unfortunate situation, one which will need to be remedied 

 very soon. A new and modern dairy manufactures building is 

 one of the pressing needs of the College. 



Machinery Building. — A good sized but not necessarily ex- 

 pensive machinery building, including a repair shop, is needeJ 



