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Assembly is earnestly requested to repeat this appropriation. 



The Leading Agricultural College in the World. — In the heart 

 of the greatest agricultural region in the world — the Mississippi 

 Valley — will grow up in the near future the greatest agricultural 

 college in the world. To it will be attracted students from every 

 civilized country on the globe. It will furnish the citizens of its 

 OAvn State with the best instruction of its kind to be had. Mis- 

 souri, one of the richest of these states, with a more diversified 

 agriculture than any other, and with the most central location, 

 is peculiarly well suited to build such a college. The cost of an 

 enterprise of this sort will necessarily be great, the time required 

 for its building long. If Missouri is to have any part in this great 

 progressive movement, and is to have an institution that is even 

 creditable, much less distinguished, she must deal more liberally 

 with it than in the past. Our neighboring states of Iowa, Illinois 

 and Kansas have frequently, at a single session of their legislature, 

 appropriated more money to their College of Agriculture than 

 Missouri has given her's since it was established in 1870. 



Assured Support. — It will not be sufficient to appropriate large 

 sums of money to the College of Agriculture against a fund like 

 the collateral inheritance tax, which may or may not materialize. 

 The support of this College should be placed against the General 

 Revenue fund of the State. 



In order that a proper beginning may be miade in the improve- 

 ment of the College of Agriculture, it is earnestly recommended to 

 the Board of Curators and to the Forty-fourth General Assembly 

 that the $87,000 required for betterments, and itemized in this 

 report, be asked for out of the General Revenue fund, and that 

 the veterinary hospital and laboratory be placed upon the same 

 fund. The agricultural building should be one of the early ap- 

 propriations to come out of the collateral inheritance tax. 



We approve of the suggestion to devote the $475,000 war 

 fund to the erection on the University grounds of a memorial 

 building to Missouri's soldiers in the late Civil war, this building 

 to contain a great agricultural museum and convention hall for 

 farmers' meetings, and to provide the headquarters for the Board 

 of Agriculture until at least the new agricultural building shall 

 have been completed. Respectfully submitted, 



E. E. SWINK, 

 A. M. Thompson, 

 W. C. Hutchison, 



Committee. 



