Student Life, May 4, 1917, Vol. 15, No. 31
Despite present uncertain conditions elaborate preparations are being made to make the 1917-18 school year the biggest and most successful in the history of the institution. Practically all of the departments of the school have been given a thorough review and a careful analysis made of the changes necessary and the additions most needed to give the best services possible. Due to the rather liberal appropriations of the last legislature these change and additions have been made possible so that students upon returning next year will be very agreeably surprised at the number of improvements made during the vacation period.
The Animal Husbandry department has probably profited most from the improvement idea. It will be welcome news to all as well as the Animal Husbandry students to know that next year our dairy will be housed in a new modern dairy building. Most of us have endured the nauseating perfumes of our basement dairy for so long that the idea of eventually riding ourselves of he nuisance has about become extinct. But it becomes a fact at last and next year we may hold chapel without the accompanying music of churns and separators and separators and may eat our lunch without breaking thru a cloud of vile smelling atmosphere before entering the cafeteria.
The new building is to cost $55,000. It will be equipped with all modern dairy conveniences and machinery. In addition it will be provided with laboratories and class rooms where students may receive additional training in this important branch of agriculture. The offices and other equipment of the Animal Husbandry department will also receive quarters in the new building.
A new dairy building is not the only blessing bestowed on our live stock department, however, for our kind legislators have considered the cow of enough importance to receive additional attention. Two thousand dollars have been appropriated for improving the dairy barns; two thousand more are to be spent in summer quarters in the form of additional pasture land while three thousand dollars have been given for the purpose of enlarging the live stock herd. With these improvements and additions the Animal Husbandry department of the local school will be on of the most complete and best equipped departments in the intermountain region and with the corps of excellent instructors which it now carries, should be a drawing card to every person in the state interested in live stock work.