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(jur own Poultry Department has been a leader in this efifort. In 

 this College, poultry work has established itself as a worthy and 

 dignified part of an educational enterprise, and it has contributed 

 very much to tlie effectiveness of poultry raising throughout the 

 State. Since practically every person on the land grows fowls, so 

 may the knowledge of poultry husbandry be made a means of edu- 

 cation for all rural-minded people. Commercially, the subject is 

 of vast importance. I desire to sec it recognized by thoroughly good 

 and adequate quarters, the necessary equipnent, and sufficient land 

 for its purpose. 



4. The Agronomy building should be extended to treble its pres- 

 ent capacity. The original plans called for a building considerably 

 larger than at present, it being cut down to come within the funds 

 available. This building houses several departments and is the most 

 congested part of the College buildings at present. 



5. The Department of Farm Mechanics is in great need of room 

 and equipment. It now occupies one small end of the basement 

 of the Agronomy building. If this department is to grow, it will 

 need to have a building and equipment of its own. Machinery and 

 implements require much room not only for storage, but they de- 

 mand large laboratory space if students are to work with them 

 effectively. The time ought not to be far distant when this depart- 

 ment can be divided into its two main themes — - Farm Mechanics 

 and Rural Engineering. The latter title would cover all questions 

 of field engineering as applied to agriculture, as the surveying and 

 laying out of land, leveling and grading, the construction of roads, 

 bridges, drainage and irrigation work, and the like. 



6. The Home Economics work is now well established in the 

 College, and is growing. If it at all adequately meets the needs of 

 the State it must very soon have a separate building and equipment 

 of its own. There is the greatest necessity that means be pro- 

 vided for training the farm woman in home-making, nutrition, 

 furnishing, and all else that goes to make up effective woman's 

 work. I have long felt that the main building of a Home 

 Economics Department should be modeled somewhat after a very 

 large and commodious farm house, in which an ample domestic 

 chemical laboratory could be maintained, and with suitable rooms 

 in which instruction in decoration and furnishing and household 

 arts could be given and illustrated. This department is now housed 

 in very small rooms on the top floor of the main building, and is 

 much crowded. Rural civilization rests directly on the farm home ; 



