DEPARTAIENT OF FARM PRACTICE AND FARM CROPS 



TEACHING 



At the close of the college year 191Q-1911 the Department of Farm 

 Crops, which previous to that time had been associated with Farm 

 Management, was separated from Farm Management and united with 

 Farm Practice under the designation of Department of Farm Practice 

 and Farm Crops. 



Dr. P. J. White, who had charge of the teaching work in farm crops, 

 soon resigned to accept a professorship in Pullman, Washington. Pro- 

 fessor E. G. Montgomery, of the University of Nebraska, was engaged to 

 take charge of the teaching of this branch. As Professor Montgomery 

 could not arrive in Ithaca before January i, 1912, no courses in farm 

 crops were given during the first half-year. During the second half- 

 year 155 students registered for the work, 139 of whom received credit 

 for the course — totaling 514 credit hours. In the Summer School 25 

 students were registered in Course 3 and 20 students in Course A, 

 giving a credit of 42 teaching hours. (As the Winter-Courses are 

 considered a part of the extension work, the teaching done by this 

 Department in those courses is given under that head.) 



INVESTIGATION 



The investigative work of the Department continues along the lines 

 mentioned in previous reports, namely: durability of several roofing 

 materials ; durability of wire fencing material ; the adaptation of vari- 

 ous forms of lime for alfalfa-growing; the renovation of pastures; the 

 renovation of depleted land without manure. 



EXTENSION 



Winter-course students in Agronomy 199 



Winter-course students in Farm Structures 45 



Extension schools attended 7 



Special meetings attended 1 1 



Meetings with county agents 6 



Farms visited ^4 



Cooperative experiments supervised : 



Soy beans 28 



Alfalfa 21 



Winter vetch 8 



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