No. 1 DEPARTMEInTT OP AGRlCULTtTKE. 1?1 



ment of the Pennsylvania State College, if the farmers had taken 

 hold of it long before as they have in the last couple of years, would 

 have been way ahead of where it is now, but when we had an agri- 

 cultural building worth two thousand dollars with an engineering 

 building worth ig250,0U0, it is easy to see where the students would 

 drift to. 



When we get the right faculty and equipment in the Agricultural 

 Department, we will have more students in the agricultural course. 

 That is the common purpose we want to work for, and we ought not 

 to support members of the Assembly who will not stand by your 

 agricultural interests in the instruction of our youth. 



I am in earnest in this matter, and I have been on the Board of 

 Trustees for a long time, and I have studied over it and grieved 

 over it. It has worried me a great deal to find just how that college 

 stood, but we have done the best we could with the amount of money 

 that we had to support it. We need additional support and if you 

 would go there and examine it, you would find out that we need some 

 help, if we are to make the college what we want it to be. 



That new building — McAllister Hall — we were simply obliged to 

 go into the market and borrow the money to build that hall because 

 we couldn't accommodate the students without it. I believe it is 

 self-sustaining. It is an important thing, but the debt is there, 

 which ought not to be there, and they are really obliged to make 

 the debts. I want the Legislature — I want the sentiment of the 

 people to go in there and say to the Legislature and to the Gov- 

 ernor that they must help us out of this predicament and give us 

 the appropriations that we need in order that we may have a college 

 that we want. 



MR. BEARDSLEE: Mr. Chairman, I am in favor of electing a 

 Governor who won't veto what the Legislature does. 



MR. HERR : Mr. Chairman, that is right. 



The SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, don't you want to be sure first 

 what the Legislature will do? 



MR. BEARDSLEE: Mr. Chairman, well, what they did do; they 

 cut the appropriation right in two. 



MR. BLACK: Speaking of the fact that the appropriations are 

 specific, I recall that we wanted a few steers at one time out there 

 and they had no money to devote to that purpose and they indi- 

 cated that if certain persons would donate some steers, they would 

 take care of them. Several members in Western Pennsylvania 

 donated some steers to the college. Some two or three months 

 afterwards, they sent for a sample of corn. These steers were 

 donated and the freight was paid by the State and they were de- 

 livered at the college. 



The CHAIR: Mr. Hall, did you want to offer a resolution? 



MR. HALL: Mr. Chairman, if I offered a resolution now, it would 

 be to the effect that the Legislature appropriate an adequate amount, 

 with no strings to it, to give the college what it wants, and to pay 

 its debts. 



