Report of the President. 21 



X. Department of Animal Husbandry. 



(a) The department gave instruction during the year to 285 students, 

 and during the winter months to 315 short-course students. 



(h) Further progress has been made during the year on the study of 

 the relation of food standards to milk production. Cooperative investi- 

 gations have been undertaken into the causes of apoplexy in lambs, and 

 a bulletin on the subject is soon to appear. 



(c) A large part of the extension work of this department is the 

 supervision of the records of production of cows and the regular inspec- 

 tion of herds. The laborious and exacting nature of this work and its 

 extent requires the service of 40 assistants in different parts of the State 

 in addition to the regular members of the staff. 



XL Department of Poultry Husbandry. 



(a) New courses have been oft'ered this year with the idea of afford- 

 ing opportunity for work in the department to students other than those 

 desiring to specialize in poultry husbandry, to whom it had previously 

 been necessarv. on account of the lack of laboratory room, to limit regis- 

 tration. Even with the better laboratory and equipment facilities now 

 at the disposal of the department the increase in the number of students 

 has greatly overcrowded the work. The number of applications received 

 for the Winter Course of the current year is six times the number 

 received last year, and lack of room has made it necessary in some cases 

 to refuse admission. The congestion will be relieved only when the new 

 building, appropriations for which were authorized at the last session 

 of the Legislature, is erected and can be occupied. 



(h) The University has turned over fifty acres of land to the exclusive 

 use of this department and a large part of the activities of the year 

 have centered themselves upon the preparation and operation of a poultry 

 farm. The amount of investigation has remained essentially the same 

 as last year, and has resulted in several bulletins, three (Nos. 274, 2'//, 

 and 282) having appeared during the year, one being now in press, and 

 several others being in course of preparation. The time of one assistant 

 professor, an accountant, and an assistant has been devoted almost 

 entirely to the work of investigation, but many important projects are 

 yet untouched for lack of funds and available space. 



(c) The amount of correspondence has steadily increased, the number 

 of letters written this year amounting to 7,470. The growing demand 

 for literature has e^:hausted the Reading Course lessons in poultry 

 husbandry and five new lesson articles are being prepared for use this 

 winter, Members of the staff have visited 144 places in the State during 



