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The dairy industry in Missouri is developing at a rapid rate, 

 and we would recommend that additional instructors be provided 

 in this subject to meet the increased demand at the College. 



We would also recommend that a sufficient sum be provided 

 for the publication and dissemination of literature on this subject, 

 in order that this new industry may be upon a permanent basis 

 and may develop along rational lines. 



Secondary Instruction in Agriculture. — The increase in the 

 number of students in attendance upon the College of Agriculture 

 is exceedingly gratifying. The character of the instruction is be- 

 yond question. Now, that it has its collegiate instruction on a 

 good basis, it is the opinion of your committee that the College 

 should give serious attention to secondary instruction in Agricul- 

 ture and to its introduction into the rural schools. We would, 

 therefore, suggest that steps be immediately taken to organize in- 

 struction in Agriculture and Home Economics of a secondary 

 grade in the University, in order that the boys and girls may come 

 directly from the district school to the University and acquire the 

 necessary information to become better farmers or farmers' wives, 

 without being required to pursue a course in a high school prepara- 

 tory to admission. The Board of Curators should, therefore, ask 

 the present legislature for the necessary funds for employing 

 teachers and for providing whatever facilities may be necessary 

 in the way of buildings or equipment to begin this work at the 

 opening of the next session of the University. 



The Department of Home Economics. — This Department is 

 crowded into quarters wholly inadequate and unsuited, and we 

 would strongly recommend that the sum of $35,000 be provided 

 for the erection of a special building for this purpose, and for 

 the proper equipment of this Department. 



We would recommend that the sum of $2,000 be appropriated 

 for the expense of making a first-class educational exhibit and 

 demonstration of the work of the College and Experiment Station 

 at the State Fair, and at the leading county fairs of the State. 



We would recommend that the student judging teams sent out 

 by the College in other lines than live stock, such as grain judging, 

 judging dairy cattle, etc., be continued, and that the University 

 encourage this in every legitimate way. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



(Signed) A. T. Nelson, 



R. A. Young, 

 Sanford Mc Smith, 



Committee. 



