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down to it, finances are at the bottom of about everything. 

 We were fortunate in obtaining buildings that could be re- 

 modeled to suit our purposes. Of course, they are not of the 

 most permanent construction but they will answer until we 

 can get permanent ones, which we hope will be in three or 

 four years. 



We started shortly after the Legislature had adjourned, 

 so we have never as yet asked for a special appropriation. 

 The institution is a state university, the money necessary for 

 its operation being obtained from a percentage of the taxes; 

 we get a certain number of mills on each dollar of all state 

 taxes. The percentage thus set aside is divided among the 

 different colleges, and our share was $7,000. It did not look 

 very large, and I did not think we would get very far with 

 it, but they told me that if I could worry along with it until 

 the Legislature met in January, 1921, they would see that 

 something more was done for us then. So we have managed 

 to get along thus far and still have some money left, though 

 there will not be any by the time the Legislature meets. But 

 here is where the commercial men came in. I put my problem 

 up to the machinery men and they came through very hand- 

 somely. They asked what we wanted; I told them, and the 

 next day the machinery came out with men to install it. Other 

 men came forward with different things that we could use, 

 and in that way we saved several thousand dollars. Our 

 hatchery was installed through the courtesy of the U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries. We have been very fortunate in ob- 

 taining assistance from so many different sources, and we are 

 now trying in every possible way to justify their faith in us. 



In our first quarter, the spring quarter of 1919, we were 

 too late for the high school graduates of the first semester, 

 but we had 13 students, all ex-soldiers. Most of these we 

 trained so that they could go out the following summer as 

 members of the National Canners' Association inspection serv- 

 ice. Our real start, however, came in the autumn quarter, 



