THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 89 



You may hear that there is a large bill introduced into the 

 Legislature this winter; you may hear that the folks at the uni- 

 versity are going crazy. We have seven of the most intelligent 

 farmers take this thing up; they visited our college and others 

 for over two weeks to acquaint themselves with what was being 

 done. Those were busy men that gave up their time to look into 

 this matter. 



Member: How much do you need for new buildings? 



Dean Davenport : We need a hundred thousand dollars for 

 new buildings; we need buildings where horses can be trained, 

 where herds can be brought. We need 287 thousand dollars a 

 year for salaries and equipment and maintenance of the faculty 

 of the College of Agriculture. In a short time this committee 

 will have reported and you can get all information by writing to 

 either Mr. Frank Mann, chairman, Mr. Rudd, secretary, or by 

 writing to me. These bulletins will be for distribution. We are 

 anxious for every farmer to know the situation. We will have 

 just as good a college as you make it. Write me letters and ask 

 me any questions you want to know. Come down and see us 

 and see what the state is doing. We are a faculty made up of 

 people who have been invited to come there. There is not a man 

 there who was not asked to come there. No man applies for a 

 position except some of the younger men. Remember this, that 

 in the College of Agriculture every man who holds a position is a 

 man who has been asked to come there and take that position, 

 except some young men in assistant positions. 



We have tried hard for a year to get a man in municipal 

 and sanitary dairying; we tried to fill Truman's position; we 

 gave him $2,000, and we have had it turned down three times 

 at $3,000. It is going to take money to get men of this kind. 

 The average salary is $1,934. Center was elected to fill a posi- 

 tion at $3,000; we had been paying him $2,000. We cannot 

 keep men for $2,000 ; we must have a few five and six thousand 

 dollar men; this thing is coming. You have got to pay a man 

 if you are going to get expert knowledge. While I am on this 



