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206 fund set aside by congress for this purpose. As a result there are 18 major departments in agriculture of the Oregon Agricultural College offering degrees. The faculty in Agriculture has increased to 104 members, including twenty-four county agents; great laboratories have been established in the experiment station and the school of agriculture, and the essentials of scientific agriculture have come to be taught in many of the high schools of the state.

DEMONSTRATION IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (1912), DIRECTED BY DR. JAMES WITHYCOMBE, NOW GOVERNOR OF OREGON

First State School Superintendent of Oregon. During the first fourteen years after Oregon became a State, the duties of the office of superintendent of public instruction were performed by the governor. At this time there was not a high school building in Oregon—high school instruction usually being relegated to academies, seminaries and other institutions of learning provided by the churches. There were but few grammar schools. These were