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tion of diseased material. Such correspondence naturally requires 

 considerable time and careful work in order that it be properly done. 



II. PLANS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE EN- 

 SUING YEAR ALONG THESE LINES. 



Teaching zvork with students in the college. — ^ As already planned 

 and outlined in the catalogue of the College of Agriculture, this work 

 for the coming year is to be greatly enlarged and extended. The 

 removal of the Department from its present quarters in the Botanical 

 Laboratory of the University to the new building of the College of 

 Agriculture will necessitate a new and complete equipment. In 

 order that the work outlined may be presented in the most efficient 

 manner, sufficient money should be set aside to provide for the neces- 

 sary equipment and the maintenance of the teaching work. Since 

 botany, presented from an agricultural point of view, is a funda- 

 mental subject in a general agricultural course, the sum set aside 

 ought to be sufficiently large to make the w'ork as valuable as pos- 

 sible. The sum necessary this year will, for reasons indicated above, 

 be larger than would probably be necessary hereafter for the main- 

 tenance of the Department. 



The work as planned for next year contemplates two courses for 

 winter-course students, — one course in elementary agricultural 

 botany for specials, an advanced course in plant diseases open to both 

 specials and regulars, and a course for graduate students in which 

 the technique of plant pathology will be taken up along with special 

 lines of investigation. All of these courses include much laboratory 

 work and the necessity for a regular assistant in the Department 

 seems evident. 



Farmers' Institutes. — It seems very desirable that some work be 

 done in Farmers' Institutes along the lines of plant diseases. I think 

 that the most good can be accomplished by discussing diseases of 

 those crops. in which the farmers of any given locality are especially 

 interested. To make this valuable the speaker should have notice 

 some considerable time beforehand as to the localities he would be 

 expected to visit. He should also be furnished with information in 

 regard to the crops grown in those sections. The talks should I 

 believe be illustrated with as great an abundance of material as pos- 

 sible and the use of a microscope. During the work of last winter 

 I found the microscope of most valuable assistance. 



