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ter. This will cost but a few minutes time and a two cent
stamp. There are over 1000 young- men in the state who
would attend the A. and M. colleg-e next 3 7 ear if they could
be accommodated there. A larg-e number of these would
enter the agricultural course, where they can be taug-ht
scientific farming-, fruit growing*, dairying- and stock breed
ing, with the other branches of practical English educa
tion. The great need of the college is a separate building
for the agricultural department, and that building thor
oughly equipped. Money spent for this purpose will be a
profitable investment for the State. The time is here
when only the best farming counts, and the State and her
business interests can never prosper until agriculture
prospers, and when farmers prosper every other interest
will prosper. Ignorant farming is the near cut to bank
ruptcy, not only for those engaged in it, but for the mer
chants, tradesmen, professional and business men of every
kind dependent upon it. Gentlemen of the legislature,
look into this matter and we believe it will then be settled
right.
While writing this article the mail has brought us the
Eleventh Annual Report of the Agricultural College and
Experiment Station of Colorado, a neatly paper bound
volume of 236 pages and a number of half-tone engravings,
showing buildings and equipments belonging to the in
stitution. Among the buildings represented are a three-
story “agricultural building” of massive design, and a
three-story “horticultural building.” The Biennial Re
port of the Texas A. and M. College and Experiment Sta
tion is also before us, containing 84 pages. Of course