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practical and resultful forms of extension work thus far found, 

 to spread and actually set at work fundamental truths in suc- 

 cessful farming. 



EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. 



The Employment Bureau which was organized two years 

 ago by the Extension Department in cooperation with the Maine 

 Association of Agricultural Students has filled many positions 

 during the past year. It is the aim of this bureau to keep in 

 touch with the graduates from the college and thus be able to 

 make recommendations to those who may require the services 

 of trained and experienced men. 



NEEDS OF THE COLLEGE. 



In order to keep abreast of the times and to fill the require- 

 ments for teaching students and furnishing information to the 

 farmers of the state the college must have new equipment. 



The College of Agriculture has many needs but this report 

 will only attempt to set forth those needs that may be classed 

 as very real and pressing. 



First: Cattle and Horse Barns. The present cattle and 

 horse barns on the University farm are open to the following 

 criticism : 



1. They are not sanitary and cannot be made so except with 

 great expense. 



2. They are not of sufficient size to accommodate the live 

 stock now kept on the farm and it is well to point out at this 

 time, that if the Agricultural Experiment Station is to carry 

 out the provision of the Act passed by the last legislature 

 instructing the Station to undertake breeding experiments for 

 the purpose of ''Determining the Inheritance of Milk Produc- 

 tion," the College will be compelled to rear all the young stock 

 bred on the farm, and this plan makes immediately necessar}', 

 additional housing accommodations. 



3. They are not planned to economize labor nor can they be 

 so planned. 



4. They do not represent a type of barn construction that 

 would be recommended to the farmers of the state by any com- 

 petent authority. 



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