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session of the graduate school, and to the unprecedented demand for 

 trained men to fill positions as teachers and investigators. So short 

 is the supply that much competition for men with successful experi- 

 ence has arisen. Salaries have generally risen — whereas $1,800 to 

 $2,000 was considered a good salary for a professor a few years ago, 

 from $2,500 to $3,000 is now quite common. The initial salaries of 

 1)0 graduates of agricultural colleges in 1907, reported from 33 States, 

 ranged from $500 (a kind of fellowship) to $1,700, and averaged 

 $950. Those of 9 men with master's degrees averaged $1,200, and of 

 5 with doctor's degrees $1,300. 



He showed that the White House Conference on the Conservation 

 of our Natural Resources had brought out the need of a host of 

 agricultural experts to solve the problem of the soil and the crops and 

 to teach the results to the masses of our rural population. 



" The paramount need of the time is an adequate supply of thor- 

 oughly trained leaders in this cause. It is true we need well- 

 equipped men all along the line. But in the higher realms of re- 

 search, college and university education, and broad organization for 

 the promotion of agriculture we need a large number of men with 

 much more training than is ordinarily given in the agricultural col- 

 lege. Without these leaders the real advance of our agricultural 

 interests will be slow and halting. 



" We must develop a class of real agricultural scholars and think- 

 ers — men who will find the satisfaction of their lives in the discovery 

 of new truth and in pointing out the paths of real progress for their 

 fellowmen — men who will stick to their tasks and do good work in 

 higher research and education regardless of commercial inducements 

 or the applause given to more popular leaders. It is to aid in the 

 discovery and encouragement of such men that this Graduate School 

 of Agriculture has especially been established and it is hoped that 

 even in the feAv days devoted to this present session much will be 

 done to this end." 



The courses of study offered by the school embraced seven main 

 lines: Biochemistry, agronomy, horticulture, entomology, dairy hus- 

 bandry and dairying, poultry, and veterinary medicine. The in- 

 struction took the form of both lectures and seminars, the progrannne 

 being so arranged as to afford opportunity for attendance upon a 

 number of these lines, and thereby permitting of extensive correlation 

 of work. Special attention was given throughout to the methods of 

 investigating agricultural problems and teaching agricultural sub- 

 jects. There were also a number of special sessions which were 

 utilized for conferences on general topics relating to agricultural 

 education. 



