i392 Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [10 July, 1918. 



lotv^A State College of Agriculture. 



The State of Iowa is even smaller than Kansas, but it is far more 

 fertile and productive. Of the 35,000,000 acres in the State, 97 per 

 cent, is arable, and over 10,000,000 acres is sown to corn. The annual 

 production of maize exceeds 300,000,000 bushels. The best farmers 

 practise a rotation of corn, oats, clover or corn ; corn, oats, clover. 



Iowa is about two-thirds the size of Victoria. It spends $1,350,000 

 on the Agricultural College. 



The College is at Ames, some 35 miles from Des Moines, the capital. 



Like Kansas, the College is controlled by a Board of eleven, with 

 President, Secretary, and nine members, three of whom are appointed 

 annually. The College has the same general plan of organization as 

 Kansas: — President, with the (1) College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts; (2) Agricultural Experiment Station ; (3) Division of Extension. 



(1) The College of Agriculture is divided into the following divi- 

 sions: — (1) Division of Agriculture; (2) Engineering; (3) "Veterinary 

 Science; (4) Industrial Science; (5) Home Economics. Each division 

 is in charge of a Dean. 



(2) The Experiment Station consists of the following departments: 

 — (a) Agronomy; (&) Agricultural Engineering; (c) Animal Hus- 

 bandry; {d) Bacteriology; (e) Botany; (/) Chemistry; {g) Dairy; 

 (li) Entomology; {%) Farm Management; and (;/') Horticulture. 



(3) The Extension Division is growing rapidly. It has the same 

 general organization as Kansas and Iowa, and now has a county agent 

 in each county of the State — 98 in all. The extension work is inspiring. 



Expenditure. — 



I. (1) College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts . . $675,000 



(2) Secondary School of Agriculture . . 55,000 



II. Extension Department . . . . . . 350,000 



III. Experiment Station . . . . . . 150,000 



$1,230,000 



Staff. — 57 Professors; 57 Associate Professors; 196 assistants and 

 instructors. 



Students. — 



Collegiate . . . . . . .. 2,562 



Non-Collegiate (Secondary School) ... 353 



2,915 

 Summer School . . . . . . . . 683 



3,598 



Winter Short Courses . . . . . . 3,871 



Total . . . . . . . . 7,469 



