EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. IX. No. 9. 



The completion during the current college year of a large and well- 

 arranged building for the special use of the College of Agriculture of 

 the Ohio State University is a notable event indicating the progress of 

 higher education in agriculture in this country. Nothing in our edu- 

 cational history in recent years is more striking than the rapid increase 

 in resources and students of the colleges and universities deriving 

 their support mainly or entirely from the State and national treas- 

 uries. And it is very encouraging to the friends of agricultural edu- 

 cation to observe that the facilities for technical training in agriculture 

 are being increased in many of these institutions in a measure com- 

 mensurate with the importance of the interests involved in such 

 training. The employment of better trained teachers, the division of 

 instruction in the complex subjects embraced in the science and prac- 

 tice of agriculture along the lines of well-defined specialties, the pro- 

 vision of adequate buildings and equipment, and the organization of 

 courses of instruction to meet the needs of different classes of students 

 mark the development of education in agriculture in ways which 

 advancing pedagogical science has shown to be essential to success in 

 modern educational systems. Already experience has shown that the 

 proper organization and equipment of courses in agriculture on a 

 broad and dignified plan which puts them on an equality with the other 

 courses offered in a university is the surest way to attract and hold 

 students and to enable the institution to exert its rightful influence in 

 promoting the progress of agriculture in the region to which it espe- 

 cially ministers. The success of the Ohio State University in its agri- 

 cultural work within the past few years has been marked, and the 

 erection of the new building is taken as a convincing proof that the 

 university will continue to strengthen and develop its work in this 

 direction. Both instructors and students will naturally labor with 

 renewed earnestness and enthusiasm in an environment which assures 

 them that agriculture is recognized as of equal importance with other 

 subjects in the estimation of the university authorities. We have 



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