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STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



however, Mr. Baldwin was transferred to Dean Shaw's ofifice and in his 

 place the department secured Mr. Oscar B. Park, a graduate of James 

 Milikin University, Lincoln, 111. Mr. Park was engaged only for six 

 months and was released on June 30. Since the number of students and 

 classes continues to increase it will be necessary to employ at least one 

 additional instructor and perhaps two for the coming year. 



As in former years, it is a pleasure to acknoAvledge the hearty co- 

 operation and efficient work of the entire coips of instructors, and this 

 despite a larger number of teaching hours and more constant demand 

 upon the instructor than in most departments of the college. Aside 

 from the regular recitation and lecture work, all classes have a large 

 amount of laboratory work which involves careful preparation, often 

 weeks in advance, so that instructors are kept busy at all times in col- 

 lecting and preparing this material. If by any chance one should have 

 leisure, there is always an abundance of work in connection with the 

 general museum which of late years has been necessarily more or less 

 neglected because of the pressure of class Avork. The following table 

 shows the number of classes, section, students, and instructors each 

 term in the year: 



The foregoing statement of classes is very similar to that given last 

 year, but one new class has been added; namely, physiology 2, made 

 necessary by the opening of the veterinar\- department and the enroll- 

 ment of a small class in veterinary physiology. This course wall con- 

 sist of three consecutive terms and will be given with the aid of all 

 proper apparatus and material. In connection with the new course of 



