328 AGRICUI.TURE OF MAINE. 



HOME ECONOMICS. 



The department of Home Economics has experienced a very- 

 rapid growth since its establishment at the University. Be- 

 ginning in 1909 with only a few students, and one instructor, it 

 has grown in four years to a department offering twenty-seven 

 courses, having forty major students and four teachers. The 

 home economics curriculum was revised in 19 12 and is now of 

 recognized standard grade, among the colleges, offering a 

 major course in the suJbject. 



It was found necessary to provide the department with 

 larger quarters than previously occupied in Winslow Hall and to 

 meet this necessity, a large portion — three floors of the main 

 house — of the Maples, a dwelling house owned by the Univer- 

 sity and located in close proximity to Winslow Hall, was as- 

 signed for this purpose. In the new quarters are located the 

 model housekeeping apartments, the art and the cookery labor- 

 atories, while in Winslow Hall remain the sewing room and 

 the laundry. The increased floor space provides the depart- 

 ment with satisfactory quarters for the present, but if the de- 

 partment continues to grow, as every indication seems to 

 promise, a new building devoted exclusively to home economics 

 will soon be needed. 



HORTICULTURE. 



A new course, Floriculture, was given during the fall semes- 

 ter, and Other courses will undouibtedly be added in the near 

 future to provide adequate training for studenits taking major 

 work in the department. The outdoor laboratories devoted to 

 floriculture, landscape and vegetable gardening, small fruits and 

 orcharding, have been enlarged in size and re-located for con- 

 venience, nearer the greenhouse and Winslow Hall. 



As time passes, each of the subdivisions making up the 

 department will be strengthened and the equipment increased. 

 It will be necessary to add an extra instructor to the teaching 

 force of the department, beginning with the college year in 1914. 



The department is very much in need of adequate laboratory 

 facilities and these ought to be supplied at once, in order to 

 meet the demands now being made upon it by both the agri- 

 cultural and the forestry students. 



