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in the first two years of tiieir coilojjfe course. Certainly it lias 

 no justification as a preparation lor reading the agricultural 

 literature of the Germans for two reasons; because only 1 or 2 

 per cent of the students will ever have occasion to exhaust the 

 agricultural literature available in English, and because the 

 amount of instruction in (German provided in the course is in- 

 sufficient to enable these few to read German readily. If the 

 study of German gives the Filipino student a better grasp of 

 the English language than does an equal amount of effort put 

 upon the English itself, as is claimed by some, there is ample 

 justification for keeping German in the course. On no other 

 ground would I consider it to be justified. 



In the second year, a full course in agriculture, dealing with 

 the staple crops and laying emphasis upon plant judging and 

 selection and upon the production of staple crops of the Islands, 

 should be added. If it is found inexpedient to devote the entire 

 year to crop studies at this point in the course with the limited 

 knowledge the students have of chemistry and botany, it would 

 be entirely feasible to devote half the year to animal husbandry. 



To make room for agriculture in the second year, I would rec- 

 ommend the elimination of the course in German or its post- 

 ponement until a later period when it might appropriately be 

 offered as an elective to candidates for the degrees of bachelor 

 of science. Valuable as the work in botany is, it will be found 

 profitable, I am certain, when the agricultural work is well or- 

 ganized and highly developed, to omit a half year of botany or 

 to make one full semester of the botany relate directly to the 

 practical details of plant production. 



By adding two years of agriculture and by giving three courses 

 instead of two in animal husbandry, the course would be fairly 

 well balanced for the present. Within a short time, however, 

 it will be found advisable to increase the practical work even 

 beyond this point. In agronomy the principal stress should be 

 laid upon the six staple crops of the Islands ; and in animal 

 husbandry the work should be confined almost exclusively to a 

 study of the carabao, work cattle, ponies, swine, and poultry. 



Equipment. — The equipment of the college in botany, chem- 

 istry, and forestry is excellent. Indeed, there is an apparent 

 tendency to over-equip botany by establishing a botanical garden 

 at the college. The isolation of the college would seem to make 

 it unwise to establish anything resembling an Insular botanical 

 garden at Los Baiios. Indeed, until the work in farm crops and 

 live stock is well organized and equipped, I doubt the wisdom 



