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that faculty must be large enough and strong enough to do three 

 things instead of one. Let us have a faculty that shall do three 

 things : teach, carry on some research and carry on some exten- 

 sion work. Have every department organized under a three- 

 legged process so this faculty is not dependent upon special leg- 

 islation. 



We have four men teaching agronomy, three men teaching 

 husbandry ; we have the same amount of teaching in all these de- 

 partments; it is divided equally. When it comes to the experi- 

 mental station, there are two funds for research work and two 

 funds for special investigation that amount to $75,000 a year. 

 What have you on the dairy side? $15,000. Let us have a fac- 

 ulty in agriculture as large as it ought to be. Let us have animal 

 husbandry. Let us have dairying husbandry as large as it ought 

 to be and so "on down the line. Let us organize this faculty in 

 agriculture in such a way as these subjects ought to be taught, 

 pay for faculty, reorganize our college as a research and as an 

 extension college should be, from one common fund. They do 

 this in Wisconsin, and they do it in New York, but not in Illinois. 



After that is organized, after that great faculty is organized, 

 its salaries and equipment provided for, anything in special in- 

 vestigation may be done. 



I want to say right here that the committee has made a re- 

 port with a reorganization upon that plan. They are asking for 

 about as much as New York has; it will help investigation quite 

 independent of research work. It means a reorganization upon 

 modern lines. It will mean a great deal of money. I want to 

 tell you what the bill will call for; it will call for a million and 

 a half dollars for agriculture in this state. This will enable us to 

 have a College of Agriculture that will meet the demands. Un- 

 less we stop the students coming in we shall have more than 

 twelve hundred students before any new building can be put up. 

 In five years time we will have fifteen hundred. The men are 

 flocking into the colleges to get instruction ; they are coming from 

 the towns and from the large cities. There are more from Cook 

 county than any other county. They are coming from all over 



