DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 55 



Following trees were donated to Horticultural Department: 

 300 White pine, 3 years, 8 Basswood. 

 25 Red cedar, 35 Jack pine. 

 10 Jack pine, 22 Norway spruce. 

 6 Norway spruce, 200 Norway spruce. 

 2 Elm. 75 Eed cedar. 

 Farm Department: 

 650 Norway spruce. 



There is now on hand in the forest nursery, in nursery row and seed 

 beds, 252.633 conifers and 40.030 broad-leaved forest trees of an especially 

 large assortment of species at various stages of growth. This stock is in 

 fine shape, of vigorous growth, the species being of such wide range that 

 demands from any section of the state can be met with trees adapted 

 to the soil conditions and the locality. 



During the past year, 1,509 letters were sent out from this department. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



/j. FRED BAKER, 

 Professor of Forestry. 

 East Lansing, June 30, 1911. 



REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



Dear Sir: — I herewith submit a brief report of my labors during the 

 year ending July 1st, 1911 : 



1. Teaching. — I have taught two classes in Pedagogics during the 

 year covering seven and eight hours per week. One class consisted 

 of juniors and seniors from the Home Economics course and the other 

 of seniors from the Agricultural course. To the men I have presented 

 special work in Agricultural Pedagogy preparatory to their teaching 

 agriculture in public schools. 



Nine men go out this year prepared from an academic standpoint, 

 also having pedagogical training. Five new high schools will estab- 

 lish full courses in agriculture, beginning next September, located at 

 South Haven, St. Johns, Traverse City, Mason and Adrian. In addition 

 to these, some work in agriculture will be presented by undergraduates 

 in the schools at Flushing, Addison and Farwell. Besides these schools 

 taught by men from the college, some work in agriculture will be given 

 by the science teachers in about one dozen other high schools. The total 

 number of high schools giving regular courses in agriculture next 

 year will be fourteen. The board of education at Hudson has discon- 

 tinued the course in Agriculture. The work done in the ten high 

 schools during the past year has been eminently practical and has con- 

 vinced the people that the subject has a real place in the high school 

 curriculum. At Watervliet ten farmers entered the class in live stock 

 and dairying the first of December, and continued in daily attendance 

 until the first of March. One of these farmers said to the superintend- 



