A point has been reached in the work of the Montana Agricultural College where further progress is impossible without an agricultural building. The annual appropriations made by the federal government to the College and Station cannot be used to advantage. No increase in agricultural students can be expected and it is wrong to encourage young people to register for agricultural courses with our present facilities. It is impossible for us to hold students until graduation. There is nothing for them to work with in the advanced grades and no laboratories in which to do work.
Agriculture requires a large amount of laboratory space.
This is especially true of the experimental work of the Station. No veterinary work is being done for lack of room. The departments of field crops, horticulture and animal industry are crippled and much of the federal appropriations is used to no purpose because of inadequate quarters . . . Montana has during the past six years given less than one-half as much as the surrounding states for the maintenance of its agricultural college. This building was occupied in the fall of 1908.