DEPARTMENT OF FARM PRACTICE. 



TEACHING. 



The number of students registered in Farm Practice during the past 

 year was 12. The average number of hours spent in such instruction, 

 during the period it was being given, was 5^^ hours per week. Students 

 are advised to get practical farm experience before entering College or 

 during vacation periods and not to depend on the small amount of time 

 which they can spare from their regular University work for this practice. 



There was a total registration in the Winter Course in General Agri- 

 culture of 158 — an increase of eight over the 1908-09 Winter Course. 

 The work was conducted under practically the same conditions as to lack 

 of space for afternoon work as in the preceding winter, and with similar 

 results. 



We are looking forward to the time when there will be room to develop 

 the afternoon work in a much more satisfactory manner. 



INVESTIGATION. 



Each of the five lines of investigation mentioned in the previous report 

 have been continued, and are likely to be in progress for several years. 

 This arises from the nature of the work — several seasons being required 

 before conclusions can be reached. 



This year we undertook a sixth line of investigation : a test of the 

 relative efficiency of different ways of manuring land, and different times 

 of plowing. 



EXTENSION. 



It was decided to limit the cooperative experiments to lines parallel 

 to the investigations under way in this department and to give more 

 detailed attention to the work undertaken. Ten farmers took up a com- 

 parison of the cost of producing dry matter in root and silage crops. 

 Eighteen special problem visits have been made. The department has 

 had a representative at eight fairs. The correspondence of the depart- 

 ment has amounted to about 2,250 letters during the year, in addition 

 to several hundred answers to questions that are returned to the public 

 office for mailing. 



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