The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-17
A HALF MILLION.
Kansas Agricultural COllegeWill
Ask for That Sum
To Maintain and Improve Col
lege Next Two Years.
1T is OVERCROWDED
Claim That StudentsAre Taught
in Cellars and Attics.
News Of Interest From ALI Over
Kansas.

Manhattan, Kan, Nov. 1T.-Farmlng
and everything pertaining thereto that
is practical and practicable and of clear,
common sense value to Kansas, are
down for vigorous development in the
State Agricultural college in the next
two years. The program and the ap-
preparation the next legislature will be
asked to vote were made public this
morning. The board of regents was in
session here for several days. The
period referred to as two years is from
July, 1911, to July, 1913. For the first
year of that time the board has asked
for maintenance fund of 100000 and
for the second 100000. From this fund
comes all salaries and expenses OF
every kind connected with administra-
ton. The proportionate increase In TINS
fund is less than in former years and
is regarded as conservative and as the
smallest amount upon which the Agri-
cultural college can operate without
Gripping it's efficiency. The mainten-
ance of the college and the cost per
student, the regents and the president
declare, is very much lower in the
Kansas State Agricultural college than
in any of it's size and standing in the
country, this, Notwithstanding the fact
that industrial education is the most
expensive education possible to devise.
1t takes more for equipment, for in
stance, for animal husbandry or me-
chanical engineering than was required
for the building and equipment OF an
oId-fashioned college of respectable size.
Two More Buildings Needed.
Two buildings will be asked for. One,
the wing of a new agricultural building,
to cost s125,00O. This. under the plan
of apportionment, would be divided into
two payments, $4,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively, in the two years. The
amount would cover building and equip
ment. The new structure is intended to
contain the live stock judging pavilion
,T<z%T Tva fFln
cutting and curing of meats, corn and
grain judging pavilion and classrooms
in animal husbandry. 1t is the plan TO
ask the legislature at some future time
for another wing in which to put dairy
manufactures, cheese curing, etc, and
at a still more remote period for a CEN
trail structure between the two wings,
to cost about the same as the wings,
for farm crops, soils and farm machine
ry.
At present the classes in stock judg-
ing and the laboratory work with farm
machinery have no home. They 10
their work out doors and consequently
in bad weather can receive no inStruc-
ton. The present agricultural build
ing is the smallest on the campus, a
strange anomaly in this sort of
school This is because the agricul-
tural building was one of the first
erected here, and the institution and
it activities, with 2,400 students, have
Outgrown the present structure, as IN
deed it has outgrown nearly every
building it has When the new build
ing is completed the old building can
still be used for class rooms and labo-
ratories.
The College Is Overcrowded.
The agricultural college is very badly
overcrowded Students are taught in
easements, attics, out of doors and
after dark Formerly the college had
sessions five days in the week; of
late years the enrolment has been so
large that it has become necessary to
run six days in the week so that all
students might receive instruction.
The board of regents is to ask for a
physics building to accommodate the
departments of physics and electrical
engineering now quartered in the gen
eraI science building. With equipment,
the building will cost $4,000. Physics,
it should be understood. is the founda-
ton for the study of agriculture, espe-
ciaIIy in soils and crops, and is the
course fundamental to all engineering
work and of much Importance to the
work in domestic science.
The proposed building is as much 10
accommodate the department of chem
istry, which also is now in the general
science building. and has at present
more than one thousand students coop
ed in class rooms and laboratories i'm
possible to ventilate with this number
of students The course in chemistry
is necessary in the study of agricul-
ture because it enters into the COM
position of soils, feeding of animals,
proper conduct Of dairying and is Of
inestimable Importance in the study or
human nutrition in the domestic
science.