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culture. A handicap such as the Department is now working under should 

 not exist. Not only does the teaching lack many things, due to the fact 

 that all lectures are given under conditions such as prevent the use of 

 even the meager resources of the Department, but laboratory work could 

 with advantage be introduced and, indeed, in such a field as cooperation 

 to train for active work it is absolutely necessary. 



Graduate students cannot be given the fundamental courtesies that may 

 be expected even under trying conditions. 



The Department of Rural Economy needs a whole floor, of the size of 

 those in the Main Building, in order to do justice to the students that it 

 now has. Not even the general business — not to mention the extension 

 work — can be looked after under prevailing conditions. 



The staff of the Department should be increased by an instructor for the 

 teaching work, to be trained for a division of the field along social lines. 

 The necessity for an extension man will be more pressing as soon as the 

 data to be collected begin to return. The Department cannot in the 

 future continue its extension efiforts without the constant assistance of a 

 typewriter operator. 



Other needs of the Department are illustrative material, books, and 

 supplies. 



G. N. LAUMAN. 

 Professor of Rural Economy. 



