. Purdue debris. o and including 1920, insofar asit is expressed by the number of its graduates. That the work offereddid not at first appeal to prospective students is shown by the fact thatfrom 1895 to 1906 the graduating classes averaged less than five. Thiswas the critical period in the life of the school—the agricultural masseshad little faith in book farming; the curriculum offered but meagerallowances of technical agricultural work; the Faculty was handicappedin its teaching by the dearth of well-organized agricultural knowledgeand by laboratory facilities of the most limited kind; and
. Purdue debris. o and including 1920, insofar asit is expressed by the number of its graduates. That the work offereddid not at first appeal to prospective students is shown by the fact thatfrom 1895 to 1906 the graduating classes averaged less than five. Thiswas the critical period in the life of the school—the agricultural masseshad little faith in book farming; the curriculum offered but meagerallowances of technical agricultural work; the Faculty was handicappedin its teaching by the dearth of well-organized agricultural knowledgeand by laboratory facilities of the most limited kind; and the financialresources available for support and growth were very small. That theSchool emerged successfully from its early poverty and has entered upona period of vigorous growth is reflected in the sharp ascent made by thecurve after 1906. The break in the attendance records during the warwas responsible for the decline in the number of graduates during thelast three years. 4 i X 11 3- >^^ Page Fijiy-iight. The Purdue Tractor Testing Plant THE growing need of increased production in agricultural productshas created a demand for power machinery. The one factor whichhas helped more than any other to meet this demand of increasedproduction is the farm tractor. The manufacturer was the first to realizethis need, and hastily designed many types of so-called Farm Tractors,most of which had some praiseworthy features. As might be easilyimagined, this resulted in the market being flooded by hundreds ofdesigns, no one design of which adequately filled the needs and met allthe requirements. Some of the most freakish designs have been elimi-nated by competition. The farmer who desired some kind of a tractor was immediatelybesieged by the sales agents from the tractor concerns, each representa-tive unconditionally stating that their tractor was the only one whichwould exactly fill his requirements. It was quite natural, therefore, thatthe farmer, in his confusion, should look to the
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