38 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



KEPORT OF THE DEAN OF AGRICULTURE. 



To President J. L. Snyder: 



During the year no changes occurred among those in charge of the 

 departments of the agricultural division and the same is also true of 

 assistants and instructors with but one or two exceptions. The future 

 success of the division must depend largely on retaining the services 

 of the present efficient staff. The organization seems to be well adapted 

 to meet the demands made upon it both in educational work at the 

 college and in extension work in the state. There is great need, how- 

 ever, for the establishment of extension work along dairy lines in- 

 tended to aid in the improvement of tJie quality of the dairy products 

 of the state. 



The office of the Dean and Director has received very satisfactory aid 

 from the assistance rendered by Mr. R. J. Baldwin, whose services were 

 procured January 1st, 1911. 



Q^'he department of Farm and Horses is operated jointly by the Dean 

 of Agriculture and the Farm Superintendent. A separate report of 

 this work has not been prepared as it is the intention to issue a financial 

 statement relative to the crops produced covering three years past. This 

 department endeavors to produce food stuffs as far as possible for those 

 with live stock equipments and also to furnish the necessary team labor. 

 In addition to this it included the control of the horse breeding opera- 

 tions, represented by fourteen registered Percherons and five Clydes- 

 dales. 



The work of nearly all departments of the agricultural division may 

 be given a triple classification viz. : education, experimentation and ex- 

 tension. Only three of the ten departments receive moneys from fed- 

 eral appropriations for experimentation. The work in horticulture and 

 crops is maintained in part from Hatch funds while soil investigations 

 receive support from the Adams bill revenues. Small portions of the 

 (Salaries of six department heads are defrayed from experiment station 

 funds. This therefore means that the farm crops and live stock pro- 

 ducing departments are reliant on current college funds for the per- 

 formance of their triple functions. As the three lines of work named 

 are non-revenue producing it necessarily follows that much larger ap- 

 propriationis are necessary than would be the case if the departments 

 were being merely maintained or operated on a commercial basis. An 

 attempt has been made to develop the various departments uniformly 

 and symmetrically as illustrated by the standards acquired in the case 

 of poultry, swine, sheep, beef and dairy cattle and horses. The mainte- 

 nance of a number of breeds for educational purposes is costly as illus- 

 trated in the sheep equipment where there are now eight distinct fiocks 

 necessitating separate breeding, feeding, yarding, pasturage etc. In 

 handling a commercial sheep equipment there would be but one flock, 

 one ram, one by-pen, one yard and one pasture in use at a time thus 

 reducing the cost many times over. We believe a strong live stock 

 equipment should be maintained and with the triple demands on it 

 liberal financial support is needed. 



