No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 395 



say regarding the School of Agriculture and Experiment Station at 

 Sta^te College, but if I am to tell you of the progTes>s, I believe I 

 can tell it most quickly by giving you figures. Now, I know that 

 figures are dry material, but at the same time it may be the best 

 way to give you an idea of the work which we are doing. 



I appeared before this body two years ago, at the kind invitation 

 of Secretary Critchfield, to tell you something of the hopes that we 

 had for the future of the School of Agriculture and Experiment 

 St^atiou up at State College. That was at a time when I was 

 connected in another State, but 1 have been now a good Peunsyl- 

 vanian for a year and a half. When I spoke to you two years ago, 

 we had in the School of Agriculture 202 students; now we have 325; 

 two years ago we had 23 Freshmen; last year we had 51, and this 

 year we have registered over 100 Freshmen. Now, we have made 

 one record that we are proud of, and we are doing all the bragging 

 about it that we can, because we don't expect to repeat it, and I 

 idon't believe any other institution will ever do it again, so we are 

 doing all the talking about it that we can. Last year we had 50 

 Freshmen; this year we have 52 Sophomores; last year we had 20 

 Sophomores; this year we have 26 Juniors; last year we had 15 

 juniors; this year we have 15 Seniors. We did not have to cut 

 them up in two the way Watts does with his plants, to make two. 

 Some one asked whether we cut them up. We have more in each 

 class than we had in the class before. We not only retained the 

 students we had, but got new ones. Of course, there were some 

 students last year who did not return this year; we did not expect 

 them to return; but of the students who did not return there were 

 just five. On account of the hard times we were afraid that many 

 af our students could not return, but they did,, and others in 

 addition to them. The figures I have just given show you in a 

 general way what is going on. 



The Governor of the State of Pennsylvania was kind enough to 

 come up to State College last September a year ago, to dedicate a 

 new building which cost the State of Pennsylvania nearly |300,000, 

 and yet during the last mouth there have been days when the 

 students had to stand in the largest room in that building to listen 

 to the lectures; that is an illustration of the way we have outgrown 

 this building, and other buildings. We have, for example, two 

 laboratories there; one has twenty-'four chairs in; the other twenty- 

 two. The one is in agricultural chemistry; the other is in soils. 

 We can take care of 44 students in the agricultural laboratory, but 

 we will have in this coming semester no less than 75, and next year 

 /at the same time we expect to have at least 100, in a room fitted 

 to take care of 44 students. In the preparation of the plans of this 

 building, which, I take it, was expected to last at least twenty-five 

 years, or one generation, — we have been in it but fourteen months — 

 in the plan of that building 1,300 square feet was allowed for the 

 Department of Horticulture and Prof. Watts is already planning a 

 new building which shall have at least 13,000 square feet allotted 

 for this purpose, and I believe it is included in the budget for this 

 year; the Legislature will be asked to appropriate |175,000 for this 

 purpose this year. 



Now, 1 was to talk to you ten minutes before I began to 

 speak, and I think the ten minutes are about up, and I had better 



