The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-05


Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, Ken
lucky, Delaware, and Florida. Two
OF the larger of these employ also an
assistant director for the extension
division
Thus it is apparent that in the re-
cent action OF the board there is abb
solutely no indication of an ultimate
intent to remove all extension offices
to the university campus and nothing
which can in fairness be construed
as an attempt to depreciate the ex-
tension division or the activities of
the university in agricultural service
Rather it is recognition of the To-
cation of the extension specialists and
state leaders in south Idaho as re-
personalities of the college of agri-
culture there, to render service
where service is needed. Under the
experienced and qualified leadership
OF Dean Iddings there should be no
question of the quality and extent of
that service
Naturally enough, suspicion arises
from time to time in the minds Of
the farming public that an institu-
ton called university" rather
than an agricultural college" is
likely to take advantage of the agri-
cultural interests. Vast sums are
known to be expended and all too
rarely do our universities give out
figures the public can understand.
Comparative figures for different
states are always hard to get and
seldom up-to-date. But here are
some figures, all taken from the latest
statistics on land-agent colleges pub
Hshed by the bureau of education.
Comparative Figures
These figures are for the college
year 1920-21 and have been selected
to place the University of Idaho in
direct comparison with the separate
agricultural colleges of the northwest
and with perhaps the greatest agri-
cultural college in the country-that
of Iowa. The first column gives the
percentage of college students in re-
s1dence in the whole institution who
were in the agricultural courses; the
second gives the percentage of the
tional work which actually went to
agriculture.
University of Idaho ....... POI 24.4
Iowa Agricultural college 1865 800
Montana Agricultural col
q
Oregon Agricultural college 20.2 los |
Utah Agricultural college ..25.9 25.3
State college 1853 22.3 |
This is certainly showing of which |
the university and the farmers of |
Idaho should be proud. Some of these
states had an accounting system by
which they charged against agricul-
ture the cost of instructing agricul-
ctr ontc in Ey,o ic1,
tics and the sciences, as well as a por-
ton of the general outlay for college
and overhead Since
Idaho did not use such a method, her
is even better than a COM
parison of these figures would indi-
cate.
There is no reason to believe that
any of these colleges has since
changed its policy in the matter of
relative expenditures for different
subjects. That Idaho has not is
clearly shown by the following sum
nary of expenditures from the uni
financial statement for the
,iennium 1921-1922, recently ended.
and Colleges
letters and sciences -. $257, 415.S9
Agriculture ... 189.06742
3Z,9l9.36
engineering .......-.. 43,168.54
forestry .............. 34,909.15
Jaw 23,373.57 ,
Zines 2e,695.69
Total ............. $607, 549.62
Experimentation and SubstatiOns
lone station ......... 10000
........... 10,305.28
5roH 200