DEPARTMENT OF FARM MECHANICS 



TEACHING 



With the completion of the Farm Mechanics Building, a floor space 

 of 40 by 80 feet is made available for the teaching work and a space of 

 about 12 by 40 feet for office and tool-room purposes. While these 

 quarters are entirely inadequate for the thorough teaching of farm 

 mechanics and farm enginee-ring, still they are so far superior to the 

 facilities previously enjoyed by the Department that much better teaching 

 has been done for nearly one fifth more regular students than ever before 

 and w^ith less proportionate effort. This change is due partly to increased 

 space, partly to special conveniences, and partly to freedom from the 

 restraint imposed by being housed with other departments. 



The number of students who received instruction in the courses offered 

 by this Department is given in the following list, from which it will be 

 noted that a new course in Dairy Mechanics was added, in response to 

 a request from the Department of Dairy Industry, and a brief course 

 was given in the summer session : 



INVESTIGATION 



During the past year special attention has been given by the writer to 

 the problem of developing simple apparatus for the disposal of sewage 

 from (a) small households, (b) boarding-houses with variable flow, and 



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