completed. It is a fact that they are packed, however, and 

 that we ought to accept no more students with the present 

 facilities. This is only a demonstration that the people are 

 ready. Not all the farm youth, of course, will want a college 

 education, but enough will want it to warrant the doubling of 

 the present plant of this College of Agriculture at once. 



The mere increase in numbers of students, (there are now 

 more than 800) makes demands on teachers and equipment 

 that very few persons understand. It is not merely a question 

 of finding a place in which students may sit, but desks for 

 laboratory work, microscopes and other special apparatus, 

 animals, library facilities, and a hundred accessories that the 

 layman knows not of. Modern agricultural education has 

 become a very much specialized business, and each student 

 works with the objects and things themselves and receives care- 

 ful personal help from his teacher. 



The special agricultural schools and the agricultural work in 

 the public schools, and the work of this College of Agriculture 

 should all be organized into a system or plan, the development 

 of which should proceed in an orderly way and as rapidly as 

 the needs of the State demand. 



I have now sketched very hastily some of the activities that 

 properly belong to a college of agriculture. I have wanted to 

 present this outline in the formative stage of the College, in 

 order that the people may discuss the institution at their 

 leisure and be able to make up their minds what kind of Col- 

 lege they want and how far they desire to see it developed. 



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