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willing to put up 29 per cent only goes to the college and 71 

 per cent in the experimental station. What does it mean? It 

 means that the great bulk of the energy of the agricultural peo- 

 ple must go to carrying on experiments, to the publishing of 

 bulletins and to talk about new things, and very little can go to 

 the taking care of the students who come there for instruction. 



You have put so much more into experimental work and 

 less into the college that we are compelled to leave classes un- 

 taught to meet your demands to go and do this other thing. Now 

 the matter has gone so far that the college is being injured and 

 I came tonight to show you just how and in what way you are 

 killing the College of Agriculture in the University by making 

 these demands and keeping support away from it. 



Eight years ago we had 284 students in the College of 

 Agriculture. At that time that seemed something large. At 

 that time there was no College of Agriculture in the world that 

 had a better faculty than we had. Today we have 750 students 

 and we have less money than we had then for teaching purposes. 

 Now if you can tell me how we can teach 750 students on less 

 money than it took to teach 284, you will help me. I will tell 

 you how it is done : it is done by cheapening the character of in- 

 struction. We have let some of our best men go to other states 

 because we had to let them go. They could get more salary and 

 we have hired cheaper and younger men to take their places 

 because we could not do anything else. It has been going on 

 for four years, this filling in by cheaper men doing the same 

 work with the students. There was a time when many classes 

 went without being taught or were taught by the students. 



Two years ago what did the assembly of this State do to 

 the College of Agriculture? It reduced its appropriation thirty- 

 two thousand dollars below what it was at that time. That is the 

 first time that any assembly ever reduced its appropriation to its 

 State- Agricultural College that I ever heard of. That is one 

 point I want you to remember. The other point is this, that 

 that same man who did that thing is the Chairman of the Ap- 



