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propriation Committee in the House again this year. A situa- 

 tion of that kind will bear watching. 



What is the result of taking away from the College thirty- 

 two thousand dollars? The result is we have cheapened in- 

 struction. We have withdrawn some courses. We have six 

 vacancies and unless we can go on the same basis as other Col- 

 leges, this is what will happen : we will have to limit our stu- 

 dents. There have been no new buildings in the last six years, 

 but we have the largest and strongest experimental station in 

 this country. You are putting more money in the experiment 

 station than any other state except Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, 

 Missouri, Ohio and New York. 



One-half of our funds for the College came from the 

 Federal Government; Illinois never put a doller in until eight 

 years ago. It was started entirely by federal funds. Then you 

 put in more money and have rested on your laurels ever since, 

 so far as your College is concerned. 



We have the greatest institution in the country. Now the 

 time has come to talk plain; the people have forgotten the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. They are taking the money away year by 

 year and last year they took thirty-two thousand dollars away 

 at one time. The same man that did it is the Chairman of the 

 Appropriation Committee again. I saw this thing coming two 

 years ago and I knew perfectly well the College was in tremen- 

 dous danger with vacancies ; except where investigations are con- 

 cerned it is weak. 



We offer no course in rural sociology, although our 

 churches are calling upon us to help with the country church 

 problem. We have no men to send. We are doing nothing in 

 poultry. We have no money to do it with. As long as this 

 condition keeps on how are we going to meet the increasing 

 student attendance? If the State will not put up the money we 

 will have to keep the students away. Now seeing this condition 

 approaching I thought it might as well go until it got pretty bad. 

 This summer I put this up to leading farmers. The result was a 

 committee of seven men were chosen to visit with me the neigh- 



