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tural staff may shortly be compelled to seek another farm, and 

 as continuity is the essence of field experiments, it is most desir- 

 able that funds should be available to enable the University to 

 purchase a suitable farm and to equip it as a permanenl station 

 for teaching and research in plant and animal husbandry. 



During the University's occupation of Gravel Hill Farm, Mr. 

 K. J. J. Mackenzie has held the position of Director of the farm, 

 an onerous and difficult office which he has filled with great 

 success. His policv of maintaining pedigree herds of milking 

 Shorthorn cattle, Suffolk sheep and Large White pigs, com- 

 bined with a consistently high standard of production, has been 

 justified by the intense interest of the students in the practical 

 side of their work, and by the valuable results he and Ins assis- 

 tants have obtained in animal husbandly in general and in swine 

 husbandry in particular. Tn acknowledgment of the success of 

 his labours he was given the status of University Lecturer in 

 Agriculture in 1910, and was promoted to a Readership in 1915. 



His Colleague, Mr. Amos, who has devoted his attention chiefly 

 to crop husbandry, was given the status of University Lecturer 

 in Agriculture in 1916. Mr. Amos has published much valuable 

 work on clover sickness, on the cultivation of hops, and on 

 ensilage. 



About the time of the opening of the School, the University had 

 consented to the inclusion of the physiology of farm animals as a 

 compulsory subject in the examination for the diploma in agri- 

 culture, and the School was able to secure as lecturer in that 

 subject Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, who had made his mark as an 

 agricultural physiologist by his work on the causes of fertility 

 and sterility among farm animals. Since his return to Cam- 

 bridge, Dr. Marshall, now Reader in agricultural physiology, has 

 continued his investigations and is now recognised as the leading 

 authority on the physiology of reproduction. 



At this stage it may be interesting to record the number of 

 students of agriculture at the important epochs of the develop- 

 ment of the School. Tn 1898. the first informal class numbered 

 7 students. Tn 1899. when the University Department of Agri- 

 culture was created, the total number of students was '20. Tn 

 1910. when the School was opened, the class just exceeded 10. 

 Tn the spring of 1914. the numbers had risen to 117. Then the 

 War came and the numbers fell rapidly to about 12. rmmediately 

 the Armistice was concluded there was a sudden rush of students". 

 In October. 1919. over 200 freshmen joined the School, and bj 

 tbo end of the year the total number had risen to about :V2i). at 



