PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURAL EDl'CATION. 599 



Plate XXXIX showH the building in a somewhat incomplete condition. When 

 conipletfil tlicre will 1)ea stoiu' railing.' anmiid tlu- cast portico, and an ornate, wide 

 balustrade stairway of cut Bedford stone will furnish the appnjach up the sloping 

 incline to the front entrance. 



For this building the legislature of 1901 appropriated $150,000. ,\rchitect's fees, 

 grading the grounds, an<l otlier initial expenses were not covereil by this appro- 

 priation. The plans were drawn ami the construction sujtervi.sed by Mr. J. T. \V. 

 Jennings, the university architect. The legislature of 1903 ma<le a further appro- 

 priation of l{!25,000 for the neces.sary furniture and fixtures. 



With the completion of this building the agricultural college will occufiy a group 

 of four buildings located at the west eml of ( Mjservatory Hill. These are all devoted 

 strictly to agricultural in.struction and experiment station work, the training which 

 ^ricultural students receive in science, language, mathematics, me<'hanics, etc., being 

 given in the other dejiartments of the university. The farm barns an^ located about 

 60 rods farther west. 



A niiml)L'r of latioiiitorv luiildino-.s for the ii.se oi both (-(jlleoc ;ind 

 station have also been coii.striu'ted, including a two-.story judofing 

 pavilion for agronomy and animal hu.sl)andiy, at the Iowa College of 

 Agriculture and the ^Mechanic Arts (PI. XLIV, tig. 1); a large new 

 ^)hy.sical -.science building at the Kansas Agricultural College (PI. 

 XLIW tig. 2), which has recentl}' been completed at a cost of 

 $oT,0()U; a new science building at the Mississippi Agricidtural Col- 

 lege (PI. XLV, tig. 1), which will furnish better ((uarters for the 

 departments of agriculture, horticidture, and entomology in both col- 

 lege and station, and a new chemistry i)uilding for the N('\ada college 

 and .station (PI. XLV, t\i^. 2). 



COURSES IN RURAL ENGINEERING. 



Within the pa.st few years there has been a rapid increase in the 

 interest manifested by the agricultural colleges in subjects connected 

 with the construction and use of farm machinery and the use of 

 various kinds of power for agricultural purposes. In a number of 

 institutions this has led to the estiiblishment of more definite courses 

 in those topics which are conmioidy grouped under the name of farm 

 mechanics. There is also a decidetl tendencv to enlarge the courses 

 on subjects relating to irrigation, drainag*', water and sewage systems, 

 farm buildings, roads, and related sul)jects, and thus to prepare the 

 way for the estal>lishment of separate departments of rural engineer- 

 ing. This movement has recently been emphasized by the provision 

 in several of our largei- agricidtural institutions of special etjuipment 

 for work in these lines. 



At the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois five 

 courses in subjects connected with rural engineering are given. These 

 courses are thus described in the university catalogue for VJOli: 



Drdinngp awl irriifniion. — I.,«>cation of drains and irrigation conduits, leveling, dig- 

 ging, laying tile and pipes, filling and sul)s<'<|Uciit care, cost of construction and 

 ethciency, sewers for the disposal of waste from farm buildings, ami the sewage from 



