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culturist as chief instructor. His name at first attracted 

 quite a class of students. Brt when these found that, as 

 they thought, they were simply made to work as they had 

 been doing at home, with only a little education thrown in, 

 they became dissatisfied and left, saying they would rather 

 work for their parents than for the college. The experience 

 thus gained was very useful to me afterwards. 



In this state, as is well known, the University was 

 formed by the conjoining of the College of California and 

 the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts ; the latter is 

 therefore one of the fundamental units of the institution; 

 and of the two buildings first constructed, the present 

 11 South Hall" was originally designated as the College of 

 Agriculture, and still bears on its gable ends sheaves of 

 cereals and fruit. But when I came to Berkeley as pro- 

 fessor of agriculture, I found that building occupied in the 

 main by other scientific departments, and by the library, 

 there being no other accommodations for these, while to 

 agriculture was assigned one-half of the basement. This 

 assignment formed the main basis for the complaints of 

 my predecessor, that agriculture was deprived of its proper 

 share in the University funds and accommodations that it 

 was given the cold shoulder by the Regents, and should 

 be removed from their control to a location in the rural 

 districts. This he proclaimed to the then very influential 

 farmers' organization, the Patrons of Husbandry, now 

 better known as the Grangers, and with their aid and sup- 

 port he introduced into the legislature a bill to segregate 

 the College of Agriculture from the University of Cali- 

 fornia. He then resigned from the University; and after 

 much hesitation I left the University of Michigan to take 

 his place. 



Thus, when I arrived in California in 1875, I found a 

 rather unhappy situation. The most influential portion of 

 the farming population was solidly arrayed against the 

 University, determined to detach the College of Agriculture 

 from it, and in the meantime enforcing a boycott against 



