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offices, newspapers, former students, and prospective students, and others Inter- 
ested within the territory to be covered by the excursion. As one railroad has a 
branch leading to the college, these excursion trains are run into the campus. 
We send student guides in uniform out 20 or .';<> miles to meet the trains and 
distribute little maps of the college grounds with specific information as to what 
can lie seen in each building. Buildings are placarded and numbered. There 
are also on the campus a number of students in uniform ready to show people 
about. A number of wagons carry visitors through the experimental plats and 
orchards. Every department Of the college is open with one or more persons in 
charge. Sideshows, agents, and fakirs are not permitted on the campus. Meals 
are furnished on the grounds at reasonable cost, hut the visitors bring baskets 
of food with them and eat from the tables provided tinder the beautiful shade 
trees. These excursions are patronized almost exclusively by farmers and their 
families. Many of them return each year with the annual excursion and always 
seem to he much interested. About s.<hmi people annually visit the college on 
these occasions. The excursions are of no expense to the college except the 
small sum paid out for guides and a little printed matter and postage. Many 
students who expect to enter take advantage of these excursions to visit the col- 
lege and make arrangements for rooms and hoard. 
Soon after the fall term opens arrangements are made to advertise the short 
courses given during the winter. Names are gathered from the farmers' organi- 
zations, institute workers, census enumerators, crop reporters, creameries, cheese 
factories, and old students. The November bulletin gives an outline of the 
short courses and all information desired by those wishing to enter. Ten thou- 
sand copies are distributed for this purpose. Special editions of the college 
paper are also mailed to prospective short-course students. These special 
courses are also advertised in the agricultural papers of the State for one or 
two months during the fall. The long courses, during the summer months, are 
advertised in the religious papers of the State. 
Occasionally special measures are taken to advertise the institution. Recently 
200 Junior Annuals were sent to as many of the best high school libraries 
throughout the State. Last year our department of entomology sent to each of 
our leading high schools a box of specimen insects valued at $10. The endeavor 
is to do systematic, careful, conservative advertising. No particular subject or 
department is boomed at the expense of others : no member of the faculty is 
given an opportunity to boost himself and his department unduly. All endeavor 
to work together for the upbuilding of the institution. We work in har- 
mony with the other institutions of the State. We are within the shadow of 
one of the great universities of the country, having at present in its campus 
over 4,000 students. This greatly increases the difficulty of securing students, 
yet we have all and even more than we can take care of properly with our 
present equipment. We hold strictly to the technical idea. Every male student 
is required to take either agriculture or engineering. We do not offer literary, 
classical, or general science courses. We advise students desiring such work to 
attend some other institution. 
We try to show in our work and in our advertising that we have faith in agri- 
culture and in agricultural education. We plead for a higher ideal and a 
higher life for the tillers of the soil. We believe that this uplift will only come 
through education. 
There is one line of work not touched upon in this paper which would 
undoubtedly do much to arouse interest in agricultural education — namely, that 
of the teaching of nature study or elementary agriculture in our public schools. 
The experiences so far in this direction are not very encouraging. It will take a 
long time to make elementary agriculture or nature study a component part of 
public school work. It calls for a class of instruction which is far beyond the 
ordinary teacher of a public school. The time may come, however, when 
teachers for this work will be thoroughly trained and will be able to arouse 
interest in students such as will prompt them to attend the higher institutions 
of technical training. 
What can and should be done to further agricultural education? 
(1) Make our agricultural schools and colleges such as to draw the young 
people from the farm. 
(2) Encourage and assist in the introduction of elementary agriculture into 
our district schools. 
(.'{» Encourage the establishing of country high schools in which the teaching 
of agriculture will be a prominent factor. 
