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water pipe lines, rice paddies; and roads that would be required 

 by the college if it were located at Alabang are already provided 

 there and probably would be a waste if the college remained 

 at Los Banos. However, the abandoning of an ecjuipment such 

 as is at Alabang is a very small matter compared with a mis- 

 take in the permanent location of the College of Agriculture. 

 Therefore, the advantage of a small temporary saving should 

 not be allowed to weigh heavily in determining the new location 

 of the college in case it is decided to move it. 



If the college is brought to Alabang, it would be necessary 

 to erect an administration and classroom building at a cost of 

 perhaps 1*35,000; an agronomy building, costing 1*15,000; and 

 another laboratory building at a cost of about ^35,000. This 

 would give the college better equipment than it now has, but 

 not better than it needs. 



A rough estimate of the saving that would be effected by 

 such a combination of the work as is proposed is as follows: 



Cost of upkeep of grounds, roads, and buildings, and the saving 



of the cost of roads that are being built at the college, or must 



be built very soon P25,000 



Saving in salaries and cost of departments: 



Agronomy t*4,000 



Animal husbandry 4,000 



Entomology , 2,000 



Horticulture 10,000 



20,000 



Saving in the cost of live-stock equipment needed at the college.... 20,000 



Saving in nursery work 15,000 



Total 80,000 



In this estimate no account is taken of the saving to be made 

 by combining the work of the Bureau of Forestry with that of 

 the college or the Bureau of Agriculture, and the saving that 

 would result from closing the Veterinary College as soon as 

 the students now enrolled are graduated. It is safe to assume 

 that the saving in one year would be sufficient to meet the cost 

 of the new buildings necessary to be erected at the college. The 

 combinations suggested commend themselves, however, not so 

 much upon the ground of economy of administration as upon 

 the broader ground of greater efficiency. 



UNITING THE EDUCATIONAL FORCES 



It is much more difficult to correlate the work of the Bureau 

 of Education with that of the Bureau of Agriculture and the 

 College of Agriculture than it is to correlate the work of the 



