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Kansas State
Agricultural College

A Statement of its Needs for the
Next Two Years

Manhattan, Kansas
December 10, 1910

»ONeeds of the Kansas State Agricultural College.

Industrial and technical subjects are the most expensive of all
subjects to teach. <A large outlay is required for equipment.
Teachers in these subjects can usually command large salaries in
practical lines, and are, therefore, hard to hold in college posi-
tions. The classes must be relatively small. A class in a purely
lecture subject may number a hundred, or even two hundred, but
2ood instruction cannot be given by the laboratory method to
more than thirty or forty students at a time. In agriculture,
mechanic arts and domestic science and general science the stu-
dents are taught almost entirely by the laboratory method. That
is, they are taught how to do things by being taught to do them.

An educational institution, of any sort, to meet the demands of
to-day, cannot stand still—it must go either forward or backward.
Moreover, an institution like the Kansas State Agricultural Col-
lege is each year being called upon by those interested in agricul-
ture or the industries to render alarger and more definite service.
What, ten years ago, constituted a successful agricultural college
would to-day be a small and unimportant institution indeed. The
demands of the immediate future promise to be as large and im-
portant as have been those of the recent past.

For the first time in history, such fundamental problems as the
world’s food supply, the conservation of natural resources, and
the revitalizing of the country church, the rural school, and indeed
country life, are being made the special problems of the agricul-
tural college.

The farmer no longer attempts to work out his own difficult
problems, but refers them to the experiment station for solution.
Thousands of farmers cannot avail themselves of the opportunities
the college offers by studying at the college, but they rely upon
the farmers’ institutes, the demonstration farms, the instruction
trains, and the reading courses, for definite instruction and guid-
ance. The losses from several of the animal diseases, which
formerly amounted to millions of dollars annually, are now being
practically prevented by the serums produced at the agricultural
college.

The amount and kind of service the people of a state may ex-
pect from their agricultural college will be definitely gauged by
the financial support accorded it.

Maintenance.

This account carries all general expenses connected with the
college, including salaries of teachers and employes, lighting and
heating the buildings, freight, care of the campus, postage, etc. It
is the bread and butter of theinstitution. The amountset down is
conservative, and is considered the least upon which the col-
lege can operate without seriously crippling its efficiency. The
proportionate increase in this fund is less than in former years.
The cost to the state per student is much lower in the Kansas
State Agricultural College than in any other college of its size and
quality in the country. This, notwithstanding the fact already
pointed out, that industrial education is the most expensive pos-
sible to devise.

For this purpose the Board of Regents has asked.............

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~ $200,000 $220,000

The Experiment Station.

One of the largest services rendered to the state by the college
is through the researches of the experiment station. These cover
every phase of agriculture, including soil management, crop
production, origination and development of new and improved
strains of staple crops, the development of crops especially
adapted to the western portion of the state, the breeding, feeding
and management of live stock, the control of animal and plant
diseases, the suppression of the ravages of insect pests, fruit
growing, dairy husbandry, and poultry husbandry.

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For this purpose is asked............ ........-20,000 $25,000

College Extension.

Through this department the discoveries and teachings of the
college and experiment station are brought directly to the people,
through farmers’ institutes, demonstration farms, instruction
trains, reading courses, etc. Every county in the state is visited
by representatives of this department, and every industry of im-
portance is encouraged through its teachings. The amount of
eood this department can do in the development of Kansas indus-
tries will be limited only by the amount of money the state is wili-
ing to invest in it.
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The Board of Regents has asked...............$85,000 $40,000

Fort Hays Branch Experiment Station.

This is an institution especially organized to serve the interests
of the western portion of the state, to work out the agricultural
problems peculiar to this region; to develop varieties of grain and
forage crops adapted to the climatic conditions there prevailing;
and to work out systems of farming that will be more remuner-
ative and support a larger population. This portion of the state
has a soil of great fertility, a climate capable of developing a rug-

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ged and virile race of people. The problem is to learn how to
secure sufficient and uniform yields with a limited water supply.

For this purpose the Board of Regents has recommended to
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the legislature the sums Of......................$80,000 $380,000

Library Equipment.

For the improvement and better equipment of the library,

which benefits every student in the college, the Board of Regents
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Heat and Power Equipment.

The economical heating and lighting of a plant like the Kansas
State Agricultural College is no small undertaking. With two
large buildings added, viz., the mechanical engineering building
and the new armory and gymnasium, it is necessary to increase
the equipment and to revise in an important way the hghting and
heating systems.

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For this purpose the Board estimates... ........5%

500 $7,500

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Heat Tunnels.

It is necessary to extend the heat tunnel to the new armory
and gymnasium, and the equipment in the present tunnel is in
very bad shape, and needs, for efficient and economical service,
overhauling, and in many instances entire replacing. The cost of
all this work would probably fall between $10,000 and $15,000.

It is estimated that the amount absolutely imperative to be done
within the next two years will require an appropriation of at

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GASH vive nae «ends dass eo dedses dese: <Bacate, ecae $8,000 - $3,000

Fire Protection and Escapes.

The college has at the present time very poor fire fighting fa-
cilities, and no fire escapes. For the protection of the property
of the state, and the lives of the students attending the college,
the Board urgently requests the legislature to provide an appro-

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OV TAATOM: OF oe gli dees oe Se wns. y a tea Gace sees eee OMODO? 5,000

Water-Supply.

The present water-supply of the college is insufficient and is
not free from the danger of contamination. At times, the college
is forced to buy water from the city of Manhattan, at a price far
in excess of the cost to the college for pumping from its own
wells. [tis proposed to sink an additional well, on ground that
can be made absolutely free from contamination, and to establish
a more economical system of pumping than is now provided. For
this purpose it is estimated that there will be required..........

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$1,500 $1,500

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Coal.

Experience has demonstrated that it is not possible, at times,
for the penitentiary to supply all the state institutions with the
amount of coal required to heat and ight them. At various times
the college has been obliged to purchase coal in the market, and
has for months been in imminent danger of a shortage. The
Board of Regents, therefore, recommends to the legislature that a
fund for this purpose be appropriated to the college, with the
proviso that only such part of the fund is to be used as is required
to pay the freight and drayage on the coal secured from the pen-
itentiary and for the purchase of such an amount of coal as the
penitentiary cannot furnish, the remainder to revert automatically
to the state.

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The sum estimated for this revolving fund is...$14,000 $14,000

General Repairs.

For many years no special fund has been provided for the
repair of the buildings and other property of the college. As a
result, the buildings are not ina state of good repair. ‘The roofs
of several of the buildings need to be entirely replaced; in one
instance the entire end ofa building will need to be reconstructed ;
floors in other buildings are worn out. The state architect, at the
request of the authorities of the college, went carefully over the
institution and estimated in detail the repairs required, and the
sums requested by the Board of Regents for this purpose are those

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recommended by him, as follows.................$15,000 $20,000

Armory and Gymnasium.

(Lo complete literary society halls and swimming pools. )

The following statement from the state architect in relation to
this matter is self-explanatory, and fully sets forth the need for
this appropriation and the reason why these items were not in-
cluded in the original contract for the building:

‘With reference to the armory and gymnasium, for which the legislature
of 1909 made an appropriation of $100,000, IT will say that under the contract
with Walter B. Stingley for the main structure, and the Salina Plumbing
Company for the plumbing and heating, and a certain allowance for elec-
trical work, this building will be completed for all the purposes contemplated
in the act, and will be ready for occupancy at the opening of school in Sep-
tember, 1911. A sufticient sum is available for lighting and equipment.

“In order to design a building of sufficient magnitude to comprehend the
pool and jocker spaces necessary for both young men and young women,
and a gymnasium and armory floor sufficient for the drill movements of the
cadet corps, we found it necessary to carry out a design that, above the
main floor, would afford considerable room which could be advantageously
finished for the uses of the various literary societies of the college. We find
that this space which is available for this purpose will amount to nine good-
sized rooms.

‘In view of the fact that many of the societies of the college are meeting
in basements, in unventilated and unsanitary quarters, with the permission
of the Board of Regents the building was designed so as to provide for
these society rooms.

‘‘The appropriation was not sufficient to finish these society halls, and

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indeed I question whether, under the terms of the appropriation, we could
have used the funds for such purposes, and they, therefore, remain in an
unfinished condition. The enclosing of this space which can be finished for
these purposes was rendered necessary in order to have a sufficiently large
basement for the combined use of the boys and girls, as before stated.

‘The language of the statute appropriating the funds for this building
was such that no part of the appropriation could be used for other than
strictly armory and gymnasium purposes and the equipment thereof.

‘*TIn order now to complete these rooms, which may be designated as
literary society rooms, or, indeed, very valuable class rooms, and also the
installation and equipment of two swimming pools, it will be necessary to
ask for an appropriation of $22,000,”’

(Signed) C. H. CHANDLER, State Architect.

The literary societies, nine in number, are doing a work of ines-
timable value in the college. At the present time they hold their
meetings in halls that are poorly ventilated and are not suited to
such purposes. ‘To provide these societies with halls is to encour-
age young men and women to take more interest in this voluntary

literary work, so important to their success in after life.
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For this purpose the Board of Regents has asked...... $22,000
The Milling Industry.

Kansas is the principal hard winter wheat state of the union.
Only forty per cent of the wheat grown in Kansas is milled in the
state. Every bushel of wheat grown here ought to be milled
within the state, in order to help build up the state’s industries
and to keep the by-products of bran and shipstuff at home, to be
fed to improved live stock and the fertility be thereby returned to
our soil instead of being lost to the state. The college is seeking,
through this department, to increase the quality of the Kansas flour,
by more scientific blending of the wheats; through instruction as
to the handling of the wheat, from harvest until the time it is
milled; by baking and chemical tests, to show how the wheats may
be used to produce the largest yield of flour of the highest quality.

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For this purpose the Board of Regents is asking, $2,000 $2,000

Forestry.

For the purposes of producing windbreaks, to ascertain what
varieties of trees are best suited to the different climatic and soil
conditions of the state, how they may be raised to become the
most effective in preventing destructive winds, soil drifting, and
for propagation of nursery stock, the Board is asking............

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ee eee ee eae ee ere $3,000 $8,000
Dodge City Forest Station.........:.is.se00ve08. 2,200 2,200
Opalla WOrest iS tatlON <i... ievectex oeves <egeeais 2,200 22.200

Dairy Commissioner.

Kansas ought to be, and is destined soon to become, one of the
leading dairy states of the union. Dairying is perhaps one of the
most permanently profitable specialties of farming. The whole
problem of developing the industry, of increasing the quality of

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the dairy products of the state, the inspection of the skimming,
cream buying and manufacturing plants of the state, the inspec-
tion of testing cream, etc., rests in the office of the dairy com-

missioner.
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The Board recommends for this purpose....... $7,500 $7,500
3 = 4 Garden City Experiment Station.

Four years ago\the county of Finney deeded to the college a
farm consisting of $60 acres, for the purpose of conducting an
experiment station and demonstrations in general farming on the
uplands of thisregion. The land is practically without equipment
or fences. Itis estimated that for the erection of a suitable cot-
tage for the superintendent, a barn, necessary fences, for the
purchase of the necessary machinery and live stock, and for the
maintenance of the work for two years, there will be required an

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appropriation as follows................+++++-+++-90,000 $2,500

Better Equipment and Increased Work of Departments.
For the better equipments of the departments of the college

named below, the following sums are recommended:
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WOMESDIGIS CIENCGa sess see wasn nue els oe nsude Seles Sheers arene $2,000 — $2.000
AMIN AMSDAMOrY . os pak Basis Seeeioll de neeh ese Sone soaeaeno WOU 5,000
LOE eA Te NURS o¥21 016 ban gale ane eee nr reaper et eer ee ere -. 9,000 5,000
PN OMT CHEV verte ee Gee felsic a Ge. Sree 2 2 a eee ene = eee ie area 5,000 5,000
MEAS UT ites ee tart tater a aes arwte ates Pett ncaa e Mrktahcre Gi cent see ei ena itn oe oe 5,000 5,000
EROMEIOUUUI Case se.: meee eee A melee An Sato cite nae heehee tie See oer 5,000 5,000
Weterinany IWiedIGINnG 2: Se oc vecme cn veice 4 cre peenmache: Wea ie te ett eae eco 2,500 2,500
Hneineering TAbOLAtOrVwad acs racesaxea se otameates 1aahae es. aces 10,000) 10,000
Ee taUIa ET) omen meme ate es a SAS Sahohely arity cists ote ne Bd ee eee 3,000 ? OOO

Agricultural Hall.

At the present time one of the smallest buildings on the campus
is the agricultural building. This is because the agricultural
building was one of the first to be erected, and was built when the
enrollment was between 400 and 500, instead of approximately
2,400, as at present. The animal husbandry department, soils,
and the crops department, have entirely outgrown this structure,
and it is recommended that a new building for these departments
be provided, to contain a live stock judging pavilion, a laboratory
for instruction in cutting and curing meats, acornand small grain
judging pavilion, and class rooms for animal husbandry, soils, and
crops. The present agricultural building is sorely needed by
other departments, which have also outgrown their quarters.

For an agricultural hall and its equipment is asked............

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©. 850,000 $75,000

Physics Building and Equipment.

A building adapted to the needs of the departments of physics
and electrical engineering is sorely needed. These departments

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are now quartered in the general science building, which is over-
run with students. The department of chemistry, which is also
quartered in this building, has at this moment in attendance upon
classes and in laboratory exercises nearly a thousand students.
They have laboratory room for 276 students, and there are taking
laboratory work in this space over 700 students. The experiment
station laboratories in soil fertility, stock feeding, etc., have been
taken over mainly to accommodate students, and these important
phases of investigation are greatly hampered.

In physics, there is room for 216 students, by working six days
each week. There were enrolled in this subject last spring nearly
600 students, and are at the present time nearly 500. Before the
end of the year it is probable that there will be over 700 seeking
instruction in this crowded space.

It is estimated that for a physics building and its equipment

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there will be required ..........................$45,000 $45,000

Barn for the Department of Animal Husbandry.

There is no suitable barn for the housing of the thousands of
dollars’ worth of valuable live stock belonging to the college.
Some of the best animals in the state are forced either to remain
out of doors in winter, or to stand in a badly crowded and poorly
ventilated stable. There is not a suitable place on the college
farm for the storage of feed, the preservation of silage, or the
shelling and grinding of grain. In other words, the physical
equipment of the animal husbandry department of the college is
not as good as that of many of the private breeders of the state.

The Board has, therefore, recommended an appropriation for

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the erection of asuitable barn and its equipment...$25,000 = ——__

Poultry House.

Poultry husbandry is one of the most important industries in
the state. The college has a well-organized poultry department,
with a splendid equipment of fowls, but absolutely no equipment
of buildings, etc. The Board, therefore, recommends for this pur-

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Regents’ Fund.
For the per diem and the traveling expenses of the Regents in
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attending the meetings of the Board, is asked...... $2,500 $2,500
Contingent Fund.
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For the president of the college.................. $500 $500

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The following is a summary:

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NitanTaber aia Come member ee ietiaeite cstet ie ce Sioktett ee nets 4 easton meee ee $200,000
Laboratory and library equipment....................... 7,000
BX S PUM SMI Sue uLOR ssc rm atcpepace ss clavate cin «nla tilaistetesc ots oie net arenas 20,000
IDO MeSTICESCIONCO tence. eee tie cei Aco ne Ac Rone ats ouisieettee 2,000
Neier eul ints by Gira ClisVieags a atens eg seck aege ct specs eto wer eaters eevee 5,000
Dare LSI an Cy Wess hota re wapscneoe epenieys oe os Gta etnc aerate 5,000
Department Of ASCOMOMY a. aj.2 02cm sae ees ov eare Sie snes ave 5,000
OUTER Vac lonse a user ers Sno eee eer enene arene et eee see 5,000
HOTiIGUIGULC Newey cud toes te ee eae Gene acm wie ye ee were 5,000
Velerinary GeparuMeNty...0.- 4206 ed0eseceras gmat eres Gan 2,500
Hoe meerino TADORAtOLY.. ac. ecm stece een ae csiee a surve vee econ 10,000
Elieat-and power GQ UIPMenbyaccac. ccs. Gilera sous su ve oes 7,500
AVFELTIC ESTP Wesenceieets aa cere vile ne ene a a teet ee ee aoe Sen eee 1,500
Hive PrOtecilon ANG ESCAPES... vee slacks yicacs ote ee ae ele ae ere 6,000
PeRIniine CSA BiNEMbs; cs ess aes oc so suse emi ae cel ene so ae 3,000
Woricultiral hall and equipment. seis... veese ec. e ee 50,000
Physics building and equipment........................4. 45,000
ann Or animale Hus WAMU Vee secs clete a yt ey see aeuia ates 25,000
TS OUULLIOVI MNO US Gretta. terete orotnyc, 2. occetataucley Se rencie pa secta aah tua ee he 4,500
Armory and gymnasium (to complete literary society
halls and swimminopOO0US) «26 cs0ca e425 5.c0- ea eerie 2? 000
AVUTMiTa o MIS Pi Vieway. @tetee crass sige ovea ce aslerswlste-w sal ere atemer aera an 2,000
COMES AER TANSTONE: mae ee ue once ods decoy se Mes sea see 35,000
LM O'/ ef SYS yi) aera 8 en ate ag Nara re eee ng eee es ee 3,000
DGAPEsCity TONESbsStADION 0.2 a.c.0:cee ele. cis owe eae syctioseledarncesh 2,200
Oo MAlTOLeSt Sha wOle sie.sk i see aes) oc e.oac1 eee eee ees 2,200
Generale air Sted es cities cab coke cals pa Laurens ae wero 15,000
DAY COMMISSIONED 55 25: cs'2 sous 1a we Tikit see Swed a apes ee 7,500
Hays branch experiment station....................--+.. 30,000
(EMU GMC UV SUA LION nee Yaticlne ato alo Sc0 oo a teat. ta eee eae 5,000
Hepes OPEN USM Ll Cl pet mee atone Nace Je hoy. sia’e arena <a Rink eas we we oe 2500
Contingent fund for president. .........cccceececeeenceces 500
(QO EM ES REI ee de eee mean eee eee eran er har he .... 14,000
UM DUNITS Seee Ree tic cie hoy hocknn > vane o natant oe nected & 3,000
BING) eS areesee ever tachr eccetg chases Wee cree ig avg ee enn frame oe eee $550,900

Very respectfully submitted,

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$220,000
7,000
25,000
2,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
2,500
10,000
7,000
1,500
6,000
2,000
75,000
45,000

2,000
40,000
3,000
2,200
2,200
20,000
7,500
30,000
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2,500

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14,000
3.000

$555,900

H. J. WATERS, President.

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