Minutes of Adjourned Meeting. 17 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Revised Statutes of Missouri, section 601, require tliat a committee of the Board 

 of Agriculture sliall annually make an inspection of the work and progress of the College of 

 Agriculture and the Experiment Station of the University of Missouri, and report its findings 

 to this Board. Acting in accordance with this statutory requirement, your committee begs 

 leave to submit the following report. In submitting this report we have attempted to give 

 definite facts and figures as far as possible which mark the progress of this institution. In 

 general, your committee desires to record its opinion that the College of Agriculture is mak- 

 ing rapid progress in all lines of activity coming within the scope of its organization. The 

 enrollment of students has rapidly increased, the investigations conducted by the Experi- 

 naent Station are practical, and the extension activities conducted by the college whicli have 

 for their purpose the bringing of results of the college directly to the farmer, all have been 

 augmented and more completely and systematically organized during the past year: 



ENROLLMENT OF STUDENTS. — The enrollment in the College of Agriculture has 

 increased from 147 in 1903-04 to 821 during the year 1913-14. During the past five years 

 the enrollment in the College of Agriculture has increased 350 per cent. The enrollment in 

 the long course in 1903-04 was 75. In 1913-14 the enrollment is 506. Tlie short course 

 enrollment in 1903-04 was 72. The enrollment in the short course in 1913-14 is 315. 



We find that from the years 1901 to 1906 the enrollment increased from 160 to 186, 

 and that from 1907 the increase has been from 211 to 820 at the present time. 



Special courses are offered by the College of Agriculture for the preparation of teachers 

 for the riiral schools, for the training of dairymen, for poultry farmers, and a short course 

 for women in home economics. 



ADDITIONS TO EQUIPMENT AND INCREASE IN THE TEACHING 

 FORCE — During the past year the building for agricultural chemistry has been completed 

 and equipped, and students in the College of Agriculture are now receiving instruction in 

 this building. The physics building has also been completed and is fully equipped for 

 instruction in that subject. A greenhouse for the department of agronomy, to be used in 

 soil and plant experiments, has greatly added to the efficiency of instriiction and investiga- 

 tion in that department. Extensive repairs have been made on the dairy building. Labora- 

 tories for the study of animal nutrition have been provided in tlie new building for agricul- 

 tural chemistry. Instruction is now offered in the cutting and curing of meats. The fol- 

 lowing live stock has been added to the department of animal husbandry: By purchase — 

 One Percheron stallion, one saddle filly, one high grade draft horse, twenty-eight pure bred 

 Dorset, Southdown,- Hampshire, Shropshire, and Cotswold sheep, four pure bred Duroc- 

 Jersey and Poland China swine, thirty-nine head of cattle for instructional and investiga- 

 tional purposes. 



There have been produced on the farm the following animals: Four fillies, seventy-five 

 pure bred sheep, one hundred and sixty-five pure bred hogs, fifty-five pure bred cattle. 



The following additions have been made to the teaching force in the University and 

 College of Agriculture: Agronomy, one assistant; entomology, one assistant; farm manage- 

 ment, two assistants; poultry husbandry, one assistant; veterinary science, one assistant; 

 rural economics, one assistant professor. 



ACHIEVEMENTS OF AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS. — We point with pride to 

 the fact that in 1913 the dairy judging team of the University of Missouri won first place in 

 competition with sixteen institutions representing the various agricultural colleges in the 

 United States. Mr. W. A. Rhea, a Missouri student, won first and a four hundred dollar 

 scholarship; and Mr. L. W. Wing, Jr., another Missouri man, won second and also a four 

 hundred dollar scholarship. These prizes were won in competition with forty-eight other 

 students representing tlie best agricultural colleges in the United States. The fruit judging 

 team competing in the National Fruit Judging Contest at Washington, D. C, won first 

 place and brought iiack to Missouri a beautiful silver cup. The live stock judging team at 

 the International Live Stock Show at Chicago won second place in competition with twelve 

 other teams representing the agricultural colleges of America. No more convincing testi- 

 mony could be offered to the efficiency of the instruction given in the Missouri College of 

 Agriculture than that represented by the winnings of Missouri men in national and inter- 

 national competitions. 



FAT CATTLE PRIZES WON BY THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE.— 

 The department of animal husbandry fed and exhibited fourteen head of fat cattle at the 

 Missouri State Fair, the American Royal, and the International Live Stock Shows. Several 

 of these cattle were bred by the College of Agriculture. At the Missouri State Fair every 

 animal exhibited won a first prize. At the three shows the cattle exhibited by the University 

 of Missouri won the following prizes: One grand cliampionship, five championships, twenty- 

 five first prizes, eight second prizes, nine tiiird prizes, eight fourth prizes, one fifth prize, 

 one sixth prize. Prizes were also won on fat barrows which were exhibited for the first time 

 in 1913. 



