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oraduate school in 1902. Proo;ress in this direction has affected the 

 institutions in all parts of the country Only a few of the more 

 notable buildings recently erected will b Aientio.ned here. Wisconsin 

 has completed an agricultural building costing $175,000; South 

 Carolina one costuig $50,000; North Carolina one costing $100,000; 

 Nebraska one costing $65,000; Kansas and Mississippi have put up 

 large science buildings corresponding in general uses to agricultural 

 buildings. New York is now putting $250,000 into an agricultural 

 building at Cornell University, and Pennsylvania has erected a splen- 

 did dairy building which is to form one wing of a large agricultural 

 building, the completion of which will involve the expenditure of 

 $150,000 more; Alrginia is constructing agricultural buildings costing 

 $165,000; Idaho, $60,000. Many special laboratory buildings have 

 been erected. For example, at the Iowa State College a farm me- 

 chanics building, a two-story judging pavilion for agronomy and 

 animal husbandry, and a $60,000 dairy building; in Kansas a dairy 

 building; in Massachusetts a $40,000 horticultural building; in 

 Michigan a $30,000 bacteriological laboratory; in Minnesota a live- 

 stock building combining judging pavilion, offices, class rooms, and 

 stables; in Nebraska a farm engineering building and a creamery 

 building. Here in Illinois the great agricultural building completed 

 six years ago is now being remodeled to provide larger class rooms 

 and laboratories to accommodate the increased number of students; 

 special buildings for work in agronomy, horticulture, and animal hus- 

 bandry have been erected and a farm mechanics' building is being 

 constructed. In Arkansas where the State University has been slow 

 to recognize the claims of agriculture a college of agriculture has been 

 organized this year and substantial buildings for general agriculture 

 and dairying have been erected on the university campus. Seven- 

 teen years ago Oklahoma was opened to settlement and is now 

 admitted to Statehood. In that period a strong agricultural college 

 and experiment station has been built up and, in addition to other 

 good buildings, a special agricultural building costing $05,000 is near- 

 ing completion. In order to have the head of the institution m the 

 right environment, the president's offices have been located in this 

 building. 



Since coming here I have received a note from President Wheeler, 

 of the University of California, in which he says: "We have received 

 a bequest of 5,500 acres of superb land near Fresno from Theodore 

 Kearney, altogetiier worth, deducting all encumbrances, not less than 

 $750,000. This is for agricultural (experimentation. The field is a 

 great one and worthy the best talent." I know some institutions 

 that would take llunr chances with an eartlujuake if a thmg like this 

 would follow in its wake. 



