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CENTRAL STATION, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 
PROF. S. B. GREEN, SUPT. 
The School of Agriculture and Experiment Station, although 
forming different departments of the State University,are so closely 
identified in the minds of the people, that the course of one cannot 
be considered complete without some allusion to the other, So I 
shall preface this report with a brief reference to the condition 
of the School of Agriculture. 
The appropriations made by the legislature at its last session have 
resulted in the building of a good central plant for heating and 
electric lighting and of a finely appointed girl’s dormitory. This 
has made it practicable for the girls to be admitted to the School of 
Agriculture on a footing with the boys and does away with the 
necessity for such a school for girls as we have maintained for sey- 
eral years past during the late spring and early summer months. 
Thistogether with the increased attendance of boys has resultedina 
larger attendance than we have ever known before at one time and 
an increase in the School of Agriculture of a number of students 
during January, 1897, over those attending during January in 1896. 
This increase in attendance has had to be cared for in classrooms 
which were already crowded, so thatnow in some of them the stud- 
ents and instructors are placed at a great inconvenience. Along 
horticultural lines this has been especially noticeable, so much so, 
in fact, that a large number of students have necessarily been re- 
fused admission to the classes in horticulture. In greenhouse 
laboratory work,this has resulted in the sifting out of all lower class 
students who have wanted to attend. 
Greenhouse Laboratory Work is a line of instructien which 
although new, has shown itself popular and beneficial during the 
past three years it has been in practice. The lessons given consist 
of the testing of seeds to determine their impurities and germinat- 
ing powers; root grafting, where grafts are started into growth in 
the greenhouse, so the students can see the method by which the 
stock and graft unite; budding roses in the greenhouse; the propa- 
gation of greenhouse plants by seed and soft cuttings; and the 
general care and management of house plants, including potting, 
watering, temperatures, insects and diseases. In this connection 
a few of the fundamental principals which lead to the development 
of cultivated plants are taught and some practical work given in 
the pollination of plants, using for this purpose Chinese primroses, 
