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The barns and glasshouses that are now being erected should 

 be extended from year to year, to meet the growth of the institu- 

 tion and to complete the plans already projected. If the College 

 grows as it should, to represent the country life of the Empire 

 State, all the departments must be enlarged and other departments 

 must be added. Some of the most necessitous of the present de- 

 mands in the way of housing, I shall now mention. 



1. An auditorium or meeting place for all students and for 

 patrons of the College, should be provided at once. The present 

 auditorium seats about 600 persons. The students will probably 

 number nearly 1,000 this coming year. In our plan of organization 

 and co-operation, it is essential that all students and members of the 

 staff meet together frequently. Moreover, the College is a natural 

 meeting place for the farmers of the State in their organizations 

 and conventions. The " Farmers' Week " annually brings together 

 many more persons than the present auditorium will accommodate. 

 It would undoubtedly be possible to combine considerable labora- 

 tory space with a new auditorium building, thereby relieving some 

 of the congestion in the present buildings. 



2. Great pressure is now beginning to be felt in our animal hus- 

 bandry work, including in that phrase the work both of Professors 

 Wing and Rice. The location of the new barns far to the eastward 

 makes it imperative that the instruction given by Professor Wing's 

 department be housed in that direction and removed from the 

 present College compound. This means that not only must addi- 

 tional barns be provided, but that a new animal husbandry building 

 must be erected somewhere in the neighborhood of the barn area, 

 and provision be made for the expansion of the Department of 

 Animal Husbandry (as explained in a latter part of this statement). 



3. The Department of Poultry Husbandry is very much cramped 

 in its present quarters, and it has wholly outgrown its facilities. 

 This department should at once have a large building for class 

 rooms, laboratories and offices. At least thirty acres, and probably 

 more, should be provided for the use of the Poultry Department. 

 This means that this department must in time be removed from its 

 present quarters, and that new buildings must be provided in con- 

 nection with new land. The poultry associations are now engaged 

 in a movement to secure for the Poultry Department a sufficient 

 appropriation to put it on its feet. It is with special satisfaction 

 that I second this movement. Poultry work has undergone a long 

 struggle to win for itself a place in the colleges of agriculture, and 



