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our villages and cities, the beautification of our homes. Good 

 fanning, horticulture, landscape gardening, and forestry, i. e., agri- 

 culture in some of its various branches, is more and more attracting 

 the attention of dwellers in both country and city and becoming in 

 some measure the pursuit or the desire of all our people. Our agri- 

 cultural institutions are therefore justly regarded as the helpful 

 agents of our whole nation and not merely as the promoters of the 

 interests of a special class. The influences that proceed from this 

 graduate school may well then be of interest to all classes of our 

 people, and we who work here may well congratulate ourselves 

 because we are dealing with matters now generally recognized as of 

 fundamental importance to this great country, the anniversary of 

 whose birth we are celebrating to-day. 



WORK OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SCHOOL. 



The faculty of the second session of the Graduate School of Agri- 

 culture consisted of 35 of our leading agricultural teachers and 

 investigators, including five officers of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, twelve members of the faculty of the college of agri- 

 culture of the University of Illinois, and eighteen professors and 

 experts from sixteen other agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations. Aside from these, there were several outside men who 

 lectured at the school, among whom were the statistician of the 

 Union Stock Yards at Cliicago, representatives of a large commission 

 house in Chicago and of Swift & Co., Maj. David Castleman, who 

 spoke on the breeding of saddle horses, and Mr. N. H. Gentry, the 

 famous breeder of Berkshire pigs. 



The total enrollment of the school was 131, of whom 91 were 

 classed as students. These came from thirty-four States and Terri- 

 tories. Hungary w^as represented by a professor from the Uni- 

 versity of Budapest, and there were three students from India. In 

 addition, there were a considerable number of persons who came as 

 visitors, to attend the exercises for a few days, who were not regis- 

 tered. The attendance, therefore, considerably exceeded that of 

 the previous session, at Ohio State University, at which 75 students 

 were registered. 



The total expense of holding the session was $3,168.15. Toward 

 this the colleges contributed $950, less $127.48 for traveling expenses 

 of the graduate committee, and the university collected $710 in fees. 

 This left a net balance standing against the University of Illinois of 

 $1,635.63 as its contribution to the undertaking. 



Courses were given in agronomy, horticulture, plant physiology 

 and pathology, zootechny, and plant and animal breeding, wdth spe- 

 cial reference to the production of plants and animals suited to the 



