DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY. 



TEACHING. 



During the past year two new University courses in Plant Pathology 

 were offered, which, with those given the year previous, made a total 

 of eight. 



The teaching force in the department was increased to five by the 

 addition of two assistants. The number of students registered for 

 courses in the department was about 206, of whom 50 were in the Winter 

 Courses, leaving 156 in the regular and graduate courses. The increase 

 in number of graduate students has continued. Of men taking their 

 major in Plant Pathology, there were nine as compared with five in 

 1908-09, all registered for the Ph.D., only two being registered for this 

 degree the previous year. There was also a marked increase in the 

 number of graduate students taking a minor in this department, there 

 being a total of sixteen as compared with six in 1908-09. This increase 

 in graduate students is due chiefly to the increasing demand in the colleges 

 of agriculture, experiment stations, and elsewhere for thoroughly trained 

 men to take up the work of teaching and investigation in the field of 

 plant pathology. 



The indications are that for the year just beginning nearly twice as 

 many students will apply for admission to our courses as applied in 

 1909-10. Last year, for lack of room and equipment, we were compelled 

 to refuse admission to over twenty-five regular and special students, 

 who desired to take the elementary course. At least thirty-five will have 

 to be refused admission to this course this year for the same reason. 

 We feel that the students as well as the staff of the department have a 

 right to expect some provision (in the way of floor space and equip- 

 ment) another year for the proper handling of this increase in regis- 

 tration. We no longer have the facilities to provide for training all the 

 students who particularly desire to specialize along plant pathological 

 lines, aside from the greater number of our students, who, returning to 

 the farms of the State, need this instruction to enable them to combat 

 successfully the fungous and bacterial diseases of their crops. The 

 necessity for a course in plant diseases for special students is most 

 urgent. The only course to which they may now be admitted is the reg- 



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