l from some 200,000 acres of Kentucky farm land and quality of recreation sites, and marketing of wood handi-
* it also accounts for part of the increase in Kentucky crafts.
j soybean production, which jumped 25 percent from Some other functions of the Agricultural Experiment
, 1971 to 1972. Station include operation of a plant disease diagnostic
  Many farmers are now doing a better management laboratory to which both homeowners and farmers can ¤
  job because of Extension farm management short courses, apply for help with plant disease problems; administra-
\ Farm Analysis groups, and Rapid Adjustment Farms. In tion of six consumer protection laws related to processed A
Farm Analysis groups, participants learn how to best feeds, fertilizer, seeds, milk, and pesticides; maintenance `
manage their farm business. In the Rapid Adjustment of a soil-testing service; and licensing of Kentucky’s
_ Farms program, farmers, with Extension help, select custom pesticide operators.
7 the most profitable farm enterprises for their situations Dr. Barnhart, as director of the Experiment Station,
Q and use recommended practices to make them successful. points out: “Not only farmers but also the people in
All Extension activities are aimed toward develop- rural communities, agri-business, and consumers benefit ,
ment of more liveable Kentucky communities, but spe- from the College’s research programs.”
  cific development programs are being carried out in RESIDENT INSTRUCTION PROGRAM
f many areas of the state by Extension agents specializing The third division of the College is teaching, and
  in this field. For example, organizational and educational enrollment has climbed dramatically in recent years,
4_ H   work by these agents with industrial committees from more than doubling since 1968. Enrolhnent for the 1973 .
  1969 through 1972 resulted in the development of 44 fall semester totaled 1054 undergraduates and 191 grad-
  new industrial sites, providing some 7,000 new jobs. uate students. During the 1972-73 academic year, the
A j Extension agents also assist tourist-related businesses College awarded 112 bachelor of science degrees in
      with planning and management problems and work with agriculture and 24 in forestry, 31 master’s degrees, and
  f 1 regional tourist promotion committees. They have also 26 doctor’s degrees.
*,,   given educational and technical assistance and financing Areas of study offered in the College include; agri-
{   advice to numerous communities concerning develop- cultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural `
·i   ment of recreation facilities, hospital and nursing facili- education, agronomy, animal sciences, entomology, for-
ties, libraries, housing projects, water and sewer systems, estry, horticulture, plant pathology, rural sociology, pre-
.. and solid waste collection and disposal systems. veterinary medicine, and two new areas—production  
· `. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH agriculture and individualized curriculum. Production
  ._ Agriculture-related research is one of the three major agriculture studies are aimed toward the student who
. - divisions of the UK College of Agriculture, and answers plans to go directly into farming, while the individual-
- to many of the problems Extension agents encounter ized curriculum allows the student and his adviser to
‘ , out in the state are found through research at the UK structure a program aimed at a specific interest, such
Agricultural Experiment Station. as agricultural communications or agricultural environ-
Current research efforts in the College of Agriculture mental studies. In addition, development of a program
are defined in 184 specific projects. Among the 1972 in landscape architecture is now underway.
research results were the verification of a safe vaccine Animal sciences is the most popular area of study in
, for influenza of the horse and development of a four- the College, with 238 undergraduates enrolled in this
',, phase beef production system. Researchers are now area last fall. Pre-veterinary medicine and forestry rank
  working on such problems as the cause and correction second and third, followed by agricultural economics
g  of low reproductive rates in cows and horses, innovative and horticulture.
  means of animal waste disposal, biological control of “The many changes in modern agriculture coupled
the alfalfa weevil, the potential of ornamental crops as with the ever-changing profile of entering freshmen
an income source, and the possibilities of regulating majoring in agriculture require constant review and
tobacco leaf composition through genetic and cultural alteration in our undergraduate program,” Dr. Barnhart
means. Development of disease—resistant crop varieties says. “Ecology, pollution and population pressures are
suitable for Kentucky conditions has continuing high examples of newly—organized problems with an agri-
` priority in the College’s research program. cultural dimension which causes changes in existing
¤·· Some of the other new research projects concern engi— programs. Students have changed in various ways, too.
neering of a greenhouse on a strip mine bench with deep Many students with urban backgrounds are enrolling
mine air for heating and cooling, insect and disease con- in the College. A higher percentage of our students
trol in forest trees to preserve Kentucky’s hardwoods, are female. And, on the whole, the entering students
methods of financing small farms, economics of industrial are younger, better prepared academically and socially,
location in rural areas, assuring and maintaining the and acutely concerned with human welfare.”
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