EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XVII. August, L906. Ho. l 



The second session of (lif Graduate School of Agriculture, beld at 

 the College of Agriculture of the University of [llinois, Julj 2 28, 

 was a marked success from beginning t<> end. As is generally known 

 the graduate school has been adopted by the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, and the colleges rep- 

 resented in that organization tax themselves tor it- support. In it- 

 general management of the enterprise, the association i- represented 

 t>v it> standing committee on graduate study, of which Director L. II. 

 Bailey, of Cornell University, is chairman. The University of Illinois 

 very generously extended an imitation to hold the school under its 

 auspices this year, and it- success was due in no small measure to the 

 excellent facilities afforded by the College of Agriculture and the 

 efforts of its personnel. Dr. A. ('. True. Director of the Office of 

 Experiment Stations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was again 

 selected as dean of the school, and Prof. Eugene Davenport, dean of 

 the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois, acted a- reg- 

 istrar. Courses were given in agronomy, horticulture, plant physi- 

 ology and pathology, zootechny, ami plant and animal breeding, with 

 special reference to the production of plants and animal- suited to the 

 conditions in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains. These 

 included lectures and seminars, hut no laboratory exercises. 



The faculty consisted of •"-•"> of our leading agricultural teacher- and 

 investigators, including ."> officers of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, L2 members of the faculty of the College of Agriculture of 

 the University of Illinois, and 18 professors and experts from L6 other 

 agricultural colleges and experiment station.-. Aside from these there 

 were several outside men who lectured at the school, among whom 

 were the statistician of the Union Stock Yards at < !hicago, representa- 

 tives of a large commission house in Chicago and of Swift & Co., 

 Maj. David Castleman, who spoke on the breeding of saddle horses, 

 and Mr. N. II. Gentry, the famous breeder of Berkshire pigs. 



The total enrollment of the school was 131, of whom 91 were classed 

 as students. These came from ;;i States and Territories. Hungary 

 was represented by a professor from the University of Budapest, and 



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