DEPARTMENT OF PLANT-BREEDING 



TEACHING 



The teaching division has continued to make very rapid progress 

 since the last report of the Department. The number of students regis- 

 tered' in the different courses was as follows: 



Number of 

 Course students 



Plant-Breeding I . . .*. 72 



Plant-Breeding 2 63 



Plant-Breeding 3 55 



Plant-Breeding 4 12 



Plant-Breeding 5" 4 



Plant-Breeding 6: 



Ph.D. (M-ajor) • 10 



Ph.D. (Minor) 1 1 



M.S.A. (Major) 5 



M.S.A. (Minor) 6 



Plant-Breeding 7 (Seminar) 28 



Winter-Course 39 



This is the only college department in the United States in which 

 the entire attention of the staff is directed toward in'Struction and- inves- 

 tigation in plant-breeding. As a consequence, many teachers through- 

 out the country look to the staff to set the standard for instruction in 

 this subject. The importance of leadership in this direction will be 

 better understood when it is pointed out that in a study of the present 

 status of plant-breeding instruction in this country (made in Feb- 

 ruary, 191 1 ) it was found that over one thousand students of collegiate 

 grade are pursuing plant-breeding studies in the United States. 



In regard to graduate students, the study of the present status of plant- 

 breeding instruction gave registration in the colleges of agriculture as 

 follows: New York, 27; Illinois, 6; Nebraska, 3; Iowa, 3; California, 2; 

 Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, and New York (horticulture), i each. There 

 is an increasing tendency for Cornell graduates to pursue graduate work 

 in plant-breeding. For a time practically all graduate students in this 

 field came to us from other institutions; at present there are 13 Cornell 

 seniors pursuing senior thesis work in plant-breeding, most of whom will 

 continue in postgraduate work. 



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