THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 83 



boring institutions and see how we compared. We have more 

 money for investigation than any state in the union by consider- 

 able. We exceed Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michi- 

 gan and New York, but for the College of Agriculture we are 

 behind. Let me tell you some of these facts. It was fun to see 

 these farmers, every one happened to be a college man ; it was fun 

 to see each take his lesson in hunility. 



We have, all told, for our College of Agriculture, $93,500; 

 Cornell has $237,000 a year for the College of Agriculture, to 

 say nothing about the experimental station ; this against our 

 $93,000, and we have more students than they have. How can 

 we teach with $93,000 as well as New York with less students 

 and $237,000. 



In the matter of buildings, we have buildings on our campus 

 that cost $295,000; Iowa's buildings cost $700,000 and New 

 York's buildings cost $997,000. Not only have the plans been 

 approved by the state to be finished before 1920, calling for 

 $1,600,000 additional buildings, and when New York's buildings 

 which have been approved are finished, they will have buildings 

 for agricultural purposes amounting to over $2,400,000 as against 

 our $295,000 worth of buildings. What are we going to do. 

 How are we going to teach with such competition. Also see our 

 neighboring university at Madison. 



We have a judging room about half as large as this. We 

 teach the breaking of colts, judge the cows, the beef cattle, the 

 pure bred cattle, we judge sheep and swine. How are we going 

 to do it in one room when our neighboring states have three judg- 

 ing rooms? Wisconsin has one that cost $85,000 and ours is half 

 of the lower floor of a wing that cost $8,ooo. What are we going 

 to do about it ? They said at the last meeting of the Legislature, 

 "That is extravagance and we will not stand for it." You must 

 do what other states are doing or else not blame us for the con- 

 sequences. This is what is being done, and it is my business 

 to tell you and it is your business to decide as to what you wish. 

 If it goes as it is much longer you will have no college of agri- 

 culture at all. 



