Vol. LX XIV, No. 4348 
NEW YOItK. OCTOBEI 
Problems for the Agricultural College. 
The Mighty Task Before Them. 
[Last year, at the time he came to Cornell as clean of 
the New York College of Agriculture, we printed an 
interview with Dr. B. T. Galloway in which he gave a 
view of the prospect spread before the college. After 
a full year of experience Dr. Galloway speaks once 
more, and Tiie 11. N.-Y. is very glad to place the fol¬ 
lowing before its readers.] 
XTENT OF THE WORK.—Another year of 
work for the Colleges of Agriculture has just 
begun. Fifty or more years ago, when these insti¬ 
tutions were established, even those with the great¬ 
est faith in their future would hardly have ventured 
to the extent of increasing her appropriations about 
09 per cent.; Ohio about 127 per cent.; Kansas ITS 
per cent., and New York 181 per cent. In 1910 the 
Federal Government was spending for agricultural 
work approximately twelve million dollars. In 
1914 the appropriations had increased to twenty 
million dollars. The increased appropriations in the 
States were made for the work of the agricultural 
colleges only, and do not cover the funds used by 
departments of agriculture, experiment stations, 
and similar organizations. 
INCREASING ENROLLMENT.—Seven of the 
leading State agricultural colleges had enrolled on 
enrollment of a continuously increasing number of 
city boys. There is unquestionably a quickening in¬ 
terest on the part of the residents of cities and towns 
in the matter of agriculture that is evidenced in 
various ways. There is a growing understanding 
that our agricultural colleges have other functions 
than the training of young men and women for re¬ 
turn to the farm. It is coming to be understood 
that a college of agriculture affords a broad field 
for fitting and equipping men and women for the 
affairs of the world and for leaders in the world’s 
work. It is probably this conviction that is bringing 
many students to the agricultural colleges. So far 
The First Ayrshire Heifer at the National Dairy Show. Fig. 465. 
a forecast as to the field the colleges cover today. 
For the year just begun there will probably be en¬ 
rolled in the 52 agricultural colleges approximately 
a hundred thousand students. Probably not less 
than two-thirds of these will be enrolled in the 
regular courses of agriculture or allied subjects, 
and the remainder in the courses of mechanic arts. 
The growth of the colleges has been especially rapid 
during the past decade, and particularly during the 
last half of the period in question. During this 
period the increase in funds made available for agri¬ 
culture by the federal government in its work is 
about 50 per cent. California recognized agriculture 
January 30th last 10,161 students. There were 669 
professors, instructors and assistants engaged in 
handling the work of these institutions, which were 
expending for maintenance approximately two and 
a quarter million dollars. For the year 1913-14 the 
enrollment at the New York State College of Agri¬ 
culture was 2,830. For the present year the total 
enrollment will likely exceed this, as the number of 
new students and former students who have re¬ 
turned is greater than any previous year. 
CITY BOYS IN AGRICULTURE.—A problem 
confronting most of the leading agricultural col¬ 
leges is how to meet the situation caused by the 
as records go, the number of country-bred boys 
coming to the college is increasing rather than de¬ 
creasing. Of the last year’s freshman class en¬ 
rolling at the New York State College of Agriculture 
for the regular four year course, 16 per cent, were 
country bred, and the remainder were from cities 
and towns, with little or no experience in country 
life. It is a pi-oblem in many States to know how 
to meet this situation. It is impracticable for the 
colleges to provide any considerable number of stu¬ 
dents with the proper training by employing them 
on the college and station farm. In the earlier days 
of the agricultural colleges this could be done, for 
