G2G BOARD OF AGKICULTUEE. 



want to avail themselves of some of the opportunities within their grasp. 

 I was tallving- to the Tippecanoe County Farmers' Institute; they come 

 here and discuss agTicidtural matters, and I said to tlieni. "How many 

 students from Tippecanoe (\iunty are in tlie Scliool of Agriculture?" but 

 they did not know. Two is all. One is the son of a college man and one 

 is the son of a farmer. Now. why is itV 1 tallc to jteople and they say 

 "you ought to have more professors and more buildings." Why, bless 

 you, put yourself in my position. If you have a family of thirteen chil- 

 dren, you can't starve twelve of them in order to send the other fellow to 

 school, can youV You have to have some reasonable distribution. We 

 are trying to make a start in this business here. We have a pretty good 

 l)uilding. ^^'e spent about eighty thousand dollars in this department in 

 the last two years, ;ind wo would like to see a few more students come 

 up and till the building liefore we go to building an addition. I am pre- 

 pared to go to the Legislature and ask for ten more of them, but what 

 are they good for if students do not come to it? One hundred and twenty- 

 five students trained in agriculture in tlu' State of Indiana does not repre- 

 sent what the people ought to be doing. If you tell me that we need more 

 things and lots of them, I am going to aslv you what for. If the students 

 are demanding tliem. \\ here are the students? AVhere are they? There 

 were only 12.3 of them in the State of Indiana last year, and fewer this 

 year who are seeking agricultural training. I)o you know what V\'e are 

 doing here? Do you Icnow what courses we are offering? You know what 

 the facilities are in this institution. Y'ou know that the farmer can 

 come here for three months in the winter time and get training that will 

 make a cash return to him inside of a yeai- donlile what his expenses 

 were. 



I didn't conu' in to start up a controversy or discussion, l)ut I think 

 if you will examine into it, tli;it Die agriciiltnral men go to iiioi'e instruc- 

 tors than ;iny otlier students; tliey are the (uies who have the greatest 

 variety of coursi^s; they are tlie ones wiiose expenses are the cheajx'st of 

 any one in tlie University, ^^'e are doing all we can for tliem, and we 

 want more than 12.") next ycai- taking tlie conise in agriculture. 



Mr. jNIaish: I wish to ask if the essays that were read are to ])e dis- 

 cussed in any \v:iy? 



The President: We wou"t have time to discuss them. 



Music by Purdue University Alandolin fluli. 



The President: We will now ask Mr. Gurler for his talk on 



