DEPARTMENT REPORTS. DJ 



The recent provision, for increased facilities for the work of the depari- 

 nient in the near future. Avill make possible its much needed developmenl 

 along electrical lines, while adding also to the work as a whole. 



In closing it gives me great pleasure to say that there has been a very 

 marked improvement in the character of the work done in our courses for 

 the current year. 



Very respect full v submitted, 



MARTIN D. ATKINS. 

 Agricultural College, Mien.. 

 June 30, 1902. 



REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



Dear Sir — The college work has been conducted in much the same 

 manner as last year, but with an increased number of students. The 

 growing demand for bacteriology comes through its intimate relation 

 with agriculture and domestic science and each year demonstrates more 

 forcibly its need to a successful performance of duty in these fields. 



A working knowledge of bacteriology is indispensable in certain practi- 

 cal tines of agricultural and domestic operations and we shall aim to 

 emphasize such work as will be of the greatest utility to the student 

 when he leaves school. We do not strive to make bacteriologists but 

 rather to make bacteriology subservient to agriculture and domestic 

 science. In a technical institution, it is a means to an end, one weapon 

 to be used in the fight for success. 



Owing to the crowded condition of the laboratory we have been unable 

 to carry on the work as has been desired, but the students deserve much 

 credit for their patience in struggling against inconvenience and limited 

 facilities. They have always understood the situation at the beginning 

 of the year. However through the generosity and kindness of the Board, 

 this fall we enter a new laboratory which will doubtless give many 

 advantages and increase our working capacity. This enlarged scope we 

 trust will pave the way to the understanding of certain agricultural and 

 domestic science problems which the students could not study at all in i In- 

 past. 



It is desired also that provision may be made whereby it will be 

 possible for special students to obtain what they seek in connection with 

 their professions as in creamery work and cheese making and other voca- 

 tions in which bacteriology is fundamental. 



The new course adopted during the last year will also place the work 



