The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-06-16
AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE WORK
RESULTS ACCOMPLISHED DURING
TEN YEARS PRESIDENCY
OF DIR. AYLEsWoRTH.
INCREASE OF STUDENTS
GENERAL BROADENING OF THE
WORK AND ADVANCES IN
ALL DEPARTMENTS.
BY II. M. CATTRELL.

With the commencement just closed,
DR.. Barton o. Aylesworth has com
pleted ten years of work as president
of the Colorado Agricultural College.
These years have shown steady prog
ress and gains In every line: In in
crease in teaching force and in num-
Der of students. In almost yearly rise
in the standards for entrance and for
graduation, in library, in buildings, and
in lands, in appropriations and in ex-
penditures, In experiment station and
farmers institute work. and in the in
fluence of the college through the
State.
Some Of the gains in ten years may
be mentioned
The number OF professors, instruc-
tors and members of the experiment
station staff have increased from 32
to "A.
The total enrolment has increased
from 345 to 745. The enrolment Of
ten years ago includes preparatory,
sub-freshmen, and commercial stu
dents, classes in all three of which
have been dropped. The enrolment
for this year includes all taking short
courses at the college, but does not
include 1890 persons who were given
short courses outside of the college
by college instructors during the past
winter.
The number OF students taking col
legiate work has increased from 1872
to 259.
The land used by the farm and
horticultural departments has In
creased from $40 acres to 1876 acres,
of which at the present time 476 acres
are under irrigation.
The library has increased from II,
900 to $4,000 volumes
The mailing list of the experiment
station has increased from $500 to
$4,000.
There was spent the first year of
DR.. Aylesworth's administration. $3.50
for farmers institutes. and for the last
twelve months. $1,000.
| The practical short courses in the
college and through the state have
been established. The veterinary
course, ranked among the best in the
United States by the U. S. govern
ment inspector, and the four-year col
legiate courses In horticulture and In
electrical engineering have been es
tablished. The preparatory, sub
freshman, commercial, and normal
domestic science courses have been
dropped, as was also instruction in
Latin. at the beginning of his admin
istration.
There have been expended for new
buildings s95.SO0. and for the better
ment of aid buildings. and other per
manent improvements, more than this
amount.
The total annual expenditures fol
college and experimental station work
have increased from $4,000 to 5000.
900. In the twenty years preceding
DR.. Aylesworth's administration tbs
State had made special appropriation
for the college aggregating $4,000
The first appropriation received under
his administration was in 1902 fol
$4,000. Since that date. the apprecia
ton of the college and Its needs has
grown so that the last Legislature ap
propriated for 1t $4,000.
At the beginning Of DR.. Ayles
worth's administration. the Agricul
tural College was little appreciated
throughout the state. Now, about hal
the total income Of the institution is
expended outside of the college in de
veloping the agriculture of the state
and this work meets with general ap
provaI by both farmers and business
men,
The experiment station has 1S,OOt
names on its mailing list, and besides
a strong staff working at the college
maintains four experts in the field, Civ
ing direct help to thousands of farmers
One hundred and seventy-six farm
ers' institutes and short courses were
held by the college during the past
year in different parts of the state
with a total attendance of $1,000.
The members of the experiment sta
ton staff furnished information di
rectly to 1850 correspondents during
the past year.
These lines of work for the farmers
have given the college strong in
fluence throughout the state. and have
brought to it the interest and strong
support of the leading farmers and
business men of Colorado.