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these functions, the College is organized into twenty- 

 three departments of study, besides the work that 

 is secured to the students from other colleges in the 

 University. These departments embrace botany, 

 farm crops, forests, fruits, flowers, vegetables, animal, 

 dairy and poultry husbandry, insects and plant dis- 

 eases, soils, agricultural chemistry, farm mechanics, 

 rural art, farm management and rural economics, 

 rural sociology and home economics, besides other re- 

 lated departments. 



A farm of 1128 acres, with barns and live-stock, 

 supplement the twelve buildings, having an aggregate 

 cost of about $1,000,000 and house these departments 

 witli their equipment and facilities. Two hundred and 

 ninety-three regular courses of instruction in agri- 

 culture and thirty in home economics are offered for 

 the election of the student body. These departments 

 and courses of study illustrate the wide diversity of 

 problems with whicli rural people deal and indicate 

 the complexity of tlie relations and process with 

 which the farmer may be confronted on a single farm. 

 It is, therefore, essential that the individual who 

 would take part in agriculture be trained for the work. 

 A prime reason why agricultural training and or- 

 ganization have been so long in developing is this 

 very variety, which must Wait on the development of 

 the related sciences and arts to lead the way to the 

 understanding of the facts and processes of the farm. 

 This same variety and complexity indicate the limi- 

 tations of the individual farmer, working alone on 

 his own farm, and suggest the desirability of such a 



