No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 327 



lege. This is the main building, the first put up on the campus. This 

 is one of the oldest buildings on tlie campus, the armory, used more 

 largely now as a gymnasium, sliowing attractive plannings around the 

 building. This shows what it looks like on the campus sometimes 

 during the winter. You will see liere also the character of the trees 

 on the campus. We have a great many fine specimens of various 

 kinds of evergreens and similar trees. There is the Norway spruce, 

 heavily loaded with snow. It seldom breaks with a heavy load of 

 snow, which cannot be said of many of our trees. This shows the 

 agricultural building, which was the second of the new buildings, 

 the newer buildings on Agricultural Hill. Over here to tlie right is 

 the old experiment station. Here we have a picture of the new 

 horticultural building which was completed last year and is perhaps 

 the best single horticultural building in tlie United States to-day, 

 completed at a cost of |120,000. That shows the entire student body 

 assembled in front of the auditorium. The enrollment of the col- 

 lege is now about 3,300. Eight hundred of this number were summer 

 school students. This shows the growth of the enrollment of students 

 in the School of Agriculture. Back here in 1904-05 we had only 73 

 students; the next year we had 94, the next 111, the next 202, and 

 so on, and this year we have 1,237. 



I want you to note one thing about this chart showini^ the enroll- 

 ment of agricultural students, and that is that this line is dendedly 

 shorter than that. We enrolled fewer students last year propor- 

 tionately than the year before. Do you want to know the reason for 

 that? Simply because the college was forced to refuse admission to 

 several hundred students because of lack of class room and labora- 

 tory facilities; everything was filled and we were unable to take 

 care of more students. I hope that condition will not exist at State 

 College very long, because one of the hardest things we have to do 

 is to turn away farm boys who have saved money to take a course 

 of study and send them home again because we haven't room for 

 them. They seldom return to the college to take the course. 



A. Member: How many farm boys are in the enrollment now? 



PEOF. WATTS: I cannot tell you exactly. The courses in 

 agriculture seem to be attracting more students right now from 

 towns and cities than from the farms. It has been said that the 

 farmers' boys take engineering and the city boys take agriculture. 

 I dont think that is likely, though I suppose we have in agriculture 

 five or six hundred students to-day. That point is exceedingly 

 interesting. Some have said that those city boys will not make good 

 on the farm. If the city boy makes good in his college course, if 

 he stays there long enough to complete a college course and acqiiires 

 in addition to his technical training practical experience, the city 

 boy will win. 



If I had time I would tell you about a good many city boys who 

 have become farmers, gone into various lines of agricultural pur- 

 suits and are making good. It is simply a matter of whether he has 

 the practical experience or not. This shows a football game among 

 the students on the college campus. WTiether it is of value from a 

 military standpoint, it is an excellent thing for the students to 

 have this military training of two years; it gives them better car- 



