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need of a group of persons under 21 years of age, who are also 

 deficient in preparation necessary to carry much of the work of the 

 four years' course a two years' course is available. The work of 

 the short course is selected to be as practical as possible, but the 

 student is held to the same standard of work regarding time and 

 scholarshi]) as is required in the four-year courses. Credits ob- 

 tained by short-course students are applicable to the regular course. 

 Beginning January 21, 1918, the College of Agriculture will 

 offer a special short course of four weeks adapted to the needs of 

 •])ersons who cannot take a full semester's work. There will l)e no 

 entrance requirement for this course. The course will be so ar- 

 ranged that a wider range of purely agricultural subjects may be 

 taken simultaneously than is possible in regular University classes. 

 No University credit can be given for these courses, but certain 

 sul)iects started in the four weeks' short course may be continued 

 in the Correspondence School and given credit. 



EQUIPMENT 



The educational equipment has been maintained and improved, 

 recognizing the fact that equipment should not be allowed to run 

 dt)\vn against the time when normal conditions return. The new 

 Agriculture Building has received furnishings, apparatus and sup- 

 plies during the year, materially improving facilites for both ex- 

 perimentation and instruction. The gardens and outside physical 

 properties have likewise been maintained in proper form. 



UN1VI•RSIT^■ 01- ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL COLLECVC; FARM 



The University of Arizona ^Agricultural College farm, consist- 

 ing of 80 acres of bottomland three and ont-half miles from the 

 campus, is being further reclaimed and afifords illustrations relating 

 \o the kneling of land ; the reclamation of black alkali by means of 

 gypsum, barnyard manure and other treatments; the growing of 

 various forage crops; the manufacture of silage; the pumping and 

 economical distribution of water ; and the maintenance of various 

 types of livestock, inckiding work stock, dairy cows, beef cattle, 

 hogs, shee]) and poultry. 



Resulting from the necessitv of maintaining a considerable 

 equipment of livestock upon the farm for the use of classes in 

 animal husbandry, the affairs of the College of Agriculture farm 

 are now conducted with a view to the maintenance of a considerable 



