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these lines was given in departments of more general institutions, 

 there was often complaint that the result was " a literary kite 

 with an agricultural tail. ' ' l The Patrons of Husbandry interested 

 themselves in this subject in a number of states. In California, 

 a committee of the state grange investigated the state univer- 

 sity in 1873 and reported a neglect of agricultural instruction 

 and mismanagement of funds; 2 and in Ohio a similar investiga- 

 tion was made in 1877 into the workings of the Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College at Columbus, which has since become 

 Ohio State University. 3 



The National Grange in its " Declaration of Purposes" adopted 

 in 1874, asserted: " We especially advocate for our agricultural 

 and industrial colleges that practical agriculture, domestic 

 science, and all the arts which adorn the home, be taught in their 

 courses of study." 4 In 1876 a resolution was adopted declaring 

 " that the agricultural colleges ought to be under the exclusive 

 control of the farmers of the country, and that . . . these col- 

 leges ought to be, as far as possible, separate and distinct schools." 

 The following year the committee on education of the National 

 Grange presented a report concerning agricultural colleges in 

 fourteen states, approving some but condemning others because 

 no practical work in agriculture was done or because the agri- 

 cultural were subordinated to the literary departments. 6 Just 

 how much direct influence all this agitation had upon the colleges 

 concerned is difficult to say; but at least it spread a knowledge 

 of the opportunities in existence for agricultural education and 

 was perhaps a factor in bringing about the great increase in the 

 number of students seeking instruction along these lines. When 

 the demand for better facilities and more attention to the work 



1 Carr, Patrons of Husbandry, 376. 



* Ibid. 150, 179, 184-200, 376-381. See W. C. Jones, Illustrated History 

 of the University of California, no, 288-300; University of California, Reports 

 to the President from the Colleges of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1877, 

 pp. 3-1 1. 



3 Ohio State Grange, Proceedings, i, iii-v (1874-78); Ellis, in Ohio Farmer, cv. 139 

 (February 6, 1904); National Grange, Proceedings, xi. 129 (1877). 



4 National Grange, Proceedings, vii. 58 (1874). 



B Ibid. x. 106-108, xi. 73, 129-132 (1876-77). See also Carr, Patrons of Hus- 

 bandry, ch. xxvi. 



