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STATE BOAHD OF AdiaCULTURE. 



Sim'i' ihiii will l>c iin' lasl ici)ort, 1 desire to place upon record the 

 number of students who have graduated from the Agricultural course 

 after they have specialized in the technical work of this department 

 (luring the junior and senior years. 



Class of 1909 graduates. 



Class of 1910 o graduates. 



Class of 1911 14 graduates. 



Class of 1912 22 graduates. 



Class of 1913 36 graduates. 



Class of 1914 42 graduates. 



Class of 1915 32 graduates. 



Class of 1916 37 graduates. 



Class of 1917 36 graduates. 



Class of 1918 20 graduates. 



Twenty-two members left the class of 1918 before gradu- 

 ation to enter the military service. 



Several changes should be made in the Horticultural course. At present 

 a student must elect for speciahzation during his senior year pomology 

 or landscape gardening. New courses should be added that will give the 

 opportunity to specialize during that year in vegetable growing arid 

 floriculture. Both of these industries are very large and important in 

 the State and there is an increasing demand for opportunity to speciahze 

 along these lines. 



The war conditions and small attendance of junior and senior students 

 required modification of some features of the department work. The 

 students' Speaking and Fruit Judging and Identification Contest was not 

 held. For many years this contest has been fostered by the Michigan 

 State Horticultural Society. The Annual Horticultural Fruit and Flower 

 Show was not held nor have any of the weekly meetings of the "Hort. 

 Club." 



Upon the return to normal conditions these functions should again 

 take their place in the horticultural instruction work. 



A brief statement of the instruction work is presented in the following 

 tal)les: 



FALL TERM 1918. 



♦This work was offeredin the Spring and Summer Terms following, to allstudents returning from government service. 



