DEPARTMENT OF RURAL ECONOMY. 



TEACHING. 



The changes in the teaching done by the Department of Rural Economy 

 have been confined to the addition of the course in Agriculture for 

 first-year students. This course is designed in the main for students 

 from the towns and cities to give a general survey of the whole field of 

 agriculture — technical, economic, social, and historical — in order that 

 such students may get a proper perspective. 



It is proposed next year to offer a course in Conservation, appealing 

 to all classes of students in the University. 



INVESTIGATION. 



Investigation is continued in the main for material to be used in 

 teaching. A fundamental study of crop production in the United States 

 is also under way. 



EXTENSION. 



The efforts of the department along this line are mainly by corre- 

 spondence. Cooperative enterprises have been the subject of most fre- 

 quent inquiry, followed by requests for information on the general eco- 

 nomic and social problems of agriculture. 



G. N. LAUMAN, 

 Professor of Rural Economy. 

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