Thirty-First Annual Report 



ADMINISTRATION 



D. W. WORKIXG 



This report covers the first full year of service of the present 

 administrative head of the College of Agriculture and Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, and therefore furnishes occasion for a general 

 statement of purposes and accomplishments. Such a statement, 

 under appropriate headings, will appear in the following pages. 

 This report also gives opportunity for the Dean and Director to 

 acknowledge his obligations to the President of the University 

 for hearty and effective support and to his associates for the fine 

 spirit of cooperation they have manifested. It has been a pleasure 

 and it continues to be a source of satisfaction to work with men 

 and women who have so little need of leadership or direction. We 

 have worked together in frank recognition of the fact that we avt 

 partners in doing the special part of the work of the Univer.sitv 

 that has been intrusted to the College of Agriculture. We are in 

 the service of the State of Arizona in order that agriculture may 

 be advanced and that life in the country may be made more whole- 

 some. This is done by those who teach in college classroom as 

 well as by the men and women who with equal dignity and faith- 

 fulness carry the message of the College to the people of all pans 

 of the State. 



T?IE PURPOSE OF THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 



. THE ORIGINAL IDEA 



As developed during a little more than a half century, the 

 American College of Agriculture is a unique institution. It is a, 

 college to teach college subjects according to college standards; 

 but it has a special command to "teach such branches of learnin.g- 

 as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts.". The words 

 just quoted are from the Act of Congress of July 2, 1862, donating 

 pubhc lands to the several states to "provide colleges for the benefit 

 of agriculture and the mechanic arts." The idea that the new kind 

 of college was to have a definitely industrial bent was emphasized 

 by the Act of August 30, 1890, which provided for "the more 

 complete endowment and support of colleges for the benefit of 



