greenhouses and a glass vegetation house; the veterinary infirmary used for clinical work; and the farmhouse occupied by the Director of the Experiment Station.

In addition to these buildings used exclusively for agricultural purposes, students in this school receive instruction in all of the other buildings on the campus with the exception of the School of Pharmacy. These buildings thus become a part of the equipment of the School of Agriculture.

The farm of one hundred and fifty acres, the orchard and garden of ten acres are also important items in this list of facilities enjoyed by agricultural students.

As laboratory equipment for the department are to be enumerated, the live stock consisting of typical specimens of the best breeds of cattle, sheep and swine; the agricultural museum; the agricultural library; the well equipped laboratories of agricultural physics and chemistry; the entomological and botanical collections: the veterinary laboratory and collection of pathological specimens; the working dairy; the collection of farm tools; the numerous varieties of crops and fruits under cultivation; and the experimental plats of the Experiment Station.

Besides these special facilities relating to agriculture, the students of this school receive a large part of the instruction of their course in other departments of the University, and in this way enjoy full use of the general equipment in chemistry, physics and biology, the shops, drawing rooms, general library, gymnasium, and all other facilities provided for students in the fundamental subjects of all courses.

In addition to the above, the existence of the Experiment Station, in intimate connection with the School of Agriculture, offers exceptional opportunities to advanced students to observe, and oftentimes to participate in, scientific researches of high character and close relation to their own studies.

It will be seen that students of agriculture have the use of a greater amount and variety of scientific equipment than those of any other department of the University.

Special Induce. ments.

It has been for a number of years the policy of the University to make special efforts to induce students to enroll in the agricultural courses. To this end, special courses of study have been offered; the entrance require

ments and restrictions upon special students applying to other University schools have been modified for the School of Agriculture; special arrangements have been entered into with county agricultural societies, permitting the granting of free scholarships, so that practically all students of agriculture are exempt from the payment of fees; and probably more effort has been expended to distribute information through the State with regard to the School of Agriculture than for any other department. The books of the University show that the annual expenditures for a considerable period have been greater for the department of agriculture in proportion to the number of students in attendance than for any other department. In short, no line of action within the power of the University which would seem to offer reasonable hope of increasing the usefulness of the School of Agriculture has been neglected. The above details show

1. That the School of Agriculture has been well provided for in point of instructional force, equipment and courses of study, as compared with other departments of the University.

2. That the number of its students is small as compared with those in other schools of the University.

3. That these conditions are not peculiar to Indiana alone, but obtain generally in the other States.

NEEDS OF THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE.

In view of what has been said as to the condition of the School of Agriculture, it would appear that the ordinary provisions of equipment, teaching force, and curriculum are insufficient to induce attendance to the same degree as in other departments, and that even unusual efforts can not be relied upon to secure this result. The question then comes as to what is needed to make this line of education more popular and effective.

Primarily, one can not help the feeling that the real difficulty lies in the apathy on the subject of the farmers themselves. But even granting this, there follows the logical necessity for changing this attitude, and for arousing in its place their progressive interest in education and whatever else will benefit the industry. The problem of agricultural education, it may be seen at once, is more difficult than that of other forms of technical education. The opportunity must not only be supplied but, what is in most other

cases unnecessary, the pupil must be taught to appreciate, and value, and seek the opportunity.

On this account, it is necessary, in order to obtain anything like the same results in agricultural as in other technical schools, to expend far more of money and effort. Unfortunately it has not been generally recognized that agricultural education is one of the most expensive forms of technical teaching. Some of our neighboring States have already awakened to this fact and are equipping their agricultural schools on a broad and liberal basis, a policy which from its adoption has met with the approval of the agricultural community and greatly increased the attendance. The agricultural school which will be first and most successful in overcoming the prejudice of the farmer to technical education will be the one which is able to lead the industry in practical work and results; which can show better stock, better crops and better methods than the best farmer, and teach its students how to do likewise.

Purdue's School of Agriculture, if it expects to lead other schools in the University. must do as they have done in their respective fields, viz., command the attention of the industry by its work and facilities. To do this, it must have the best of buildings and equipment, and on a far more extensive scale than at present. It needs a building of modern characteristics, equipped with the best of laboratories for instruction in dairying, soils, stock judging, veterinary hygiene, botany, entomology, and all of the special forms of farm practice. It needs additional instructors; it needs more and better specimens of the breeds of live stock; prominent attention should be given to instruction in those branches of farm and domestic economy of interest to women, a branch of instruction which has as yet been hardly touched upon. In short, the entire plant and equipment of the School of Agriculture should be of a character to inspire the pride and confidence of Indiana farmers.

Under these conditions and not otherwise, I believe, will larger and larger numbers of students seek technical training in agriculture, and in so doing secure for themselves and for the industry an incalculable benefit.

NEEDS OF THE UNIVERSITY.

The following I regard as imperative needs for the maintenance of the University:

1. The amount of our annual income has not changed materially since 1895, at which time the number of students was 633. The enrollment for the past year was 850, an increase of about thirty-five per cent. No other argument is needed to show the necessity of increased income. Not only is the present income insufficient to provide for any growth in buildings or equipment, but it is already barely sufficient to meet current expenses. In two years more, at the present rate of increase in attendance, students must be turned away or expenses can not be met.

Second only to the need of additional income, I place the necessity of better, provision for the School of Agriculture, for reasons already set forth at length.

3. The largest assembly room in the University seats less than one-half of the students and faculty. It is impossible to hold any meeting which the University body can attend as a whole, to say nothing of its guests. In the abstract, this situation seems almost impossible. As an actual condition, affecting the work of a large public educational institution, it is not only embarrassing but at times almost unbearable. The need of a substantial building with an auditorium having a seating capacity for from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred persons is absolutely imperative.

4. The Pharmaceutical Laboratory is sadly in need of a substantial addition in place of the wooden portion of the building erected ten years ago as a "temporary makeshift." The present quarters are inadequate and unhealthful.

5. The present system of heating and furnishing power is a patchwork evolved from the small plant established twenty years

.

For the current year the enrollment will reach 1,000 or an increase of 58 per cent.

ago. It is worn out and insufficient. The substitution of coal for natural gas as a fuel, which has already become a necessity, renders this plant not only inadequate to our needs but entails upon the University a wasteful expenditure for fuel and labor. As a mere business proposition, the University needs sadly a first-class, central heating and power plant. Such a plant would be moreover a most valuable addition to the instructional equipment of the institution.

3-PURDUE KEPORT.