DEPARTMENT REPORTS. • 31 



33 Sophomores, Farm Dairying, for three weeks. 



6 Seniors, Advanced Dairying, for one year. 

 58 Specials, Creamery work, for six weeks. 

 27 Specials, Farm Dairying, for two weeks. 

 15 Specials, Cheese Making, for four weeks. 

 54 Freshmen Sophomore Dairying, for five weeks. 



193 Total. 



The Instructor in Dairying delivered eight addresses before dairymen's 

 gatherings in the State and furnished from one to two articles per week 

 to local agricultural and dairy publications solely in the interests of 

 the dairy industry of the State. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



R. S. SHAW, 

 Professor of Agriculture. 



HORTICULTURAL REPORT. 



To the President : 



With this report is concluded my first year in charge of the Depart- 

 ment of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. It is therefore fitting 

 that an outline be given of the aims and purposes, the present status, 

 and the needs of the department, as well as an account of the present 

 year's work. 



AIMS AND PURPOSES. 



The chief aim — almost the sole aim — is to instruct students in horti- 

 culture by teaching. It is felt that instruction by experimentation, out- 

 side of that done by students at the College, belongs to the Experiment 

 Station; and likewise that the dissemination of horticultural informa- 

 tion belongs, for the most part, to the Experiment Station and Farmers' 

 Institutes. The great aim of my department, then, is to teach students— 

 to do college work. The teaching falls under two heads: that in the 

 class-room and the illustrative and practical work in the laboratory and 

 out of doors. 



CLASS-ROOM WORK. 



The following are the class-room courses now offered in the depart- 

 ment and the number of students that have taken the courses this year : 

 Plant Propagation in the Spring term of the Sophomore year, 72; Pom- 

 ology in the Fall term of the Junior year, 45; Landscape Gardening in 

 the Spring term of the Junior year, 45; Floriculture in the Winter term 

 of the Junior year, 14; Spraying of Plants, Spring term of the Junior 

 year, 12; Harvesting and Marketing, Fall term of the Senior year, 12; 

 Evolution of Horticultural Plants, Winter term of the Senior vear, 14; 

 Experimental Horticulture, Spring term of the Senior year, 12. The 



