[ DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 139 



is required of the junior veterinai"y students also in the winter term, 

 since students who wish to elect Course 2 or advanced courses in bacterio- 

 logical laboratory' work may not do so on account of lack of desks and 

 equipment. This condition was serious enough this past winter term to 

 affect the enrollment in all courses; with some students it will mean 

 failure to enroll at anj^ future term. Effort should be made to meet 

 this situation at a not too far distant date. 



''The work done this spring term proved very unsatisfactory on ac- 

 count of the shortened term. Many students electing laboratory courses 

 in this department expressed their regret at not being able to take all 

 of the work outlined in the term's program. Probably due to existing 

 conditions other students failed to do their best. 



"During the spring term, I have had a graduate student in Course lOG, 

 Plant Bacteriology, under my supervision. Although not accomplishing 

 a great deal, many interesting points were brought out in the special 

 problem." 



I can commend the work of Miss Northrup and Mr. Fabian very highly 

 and can assure you that they have worked under great difficulties both 

 as regards limitations in material equipment and iustructional as- 

 sistance. 



Mr. L. H. Cooled ge reports on his teaching work as follows : 



"One-third of my time during the past jeav has been given to teaching. 

 During the eight weeks short course I gave daily lectures to twenty-five 

 dairy short course students. 



"Course 17, Daiiy Hygiene, was given during the winter term to twelve 

 senior veterinary students. We were greatly handicapped in this course 

 for lack of laboratory room. 



"In the spring term I gave the laboratory work in the Course Dairy 4, 

 to thirty-four senior dairy students. Lack of laboratory room made it 

 necessary to give this work in the Dairy Building. 



"During the fall and winter terms I had two graduate students and 

 during the spring term one. Mr. L. R. Jones has been working on, 

 "A Study of Many Strains of Streptococci with Special Reference to the 

 Streptoccoci Isolated from Cases of Bovine Mastitis," and Miss May 

 Person has made considerable progress on a project entitled "The Care 

 of Milk in the Home." 



It would seem advisable to make different arrangements relative to 

 the part played by this department in the teaching of Dairy 4, Market 

 Milk. The preparation of the students taking this course so far as 

 bacteriology is concerned is so diverse that it is almost impossible to 

 outline a course satisfactory to all. Mr. Cooledge is each year proving 

 his ability as a teacher. 



Mr. C. W. Brown has had charge of two post graduate students work- 

 ing respectively in Fermentation Bacteriology on, "A Study of Food 

 Fermentations Including the Fermentation of Sauerkraut and" the Spoil- 

 age of Canned Foods ;" and in Dairy Bacteriology on, "A Bacteriological 

 Study of Buttermating from Gathered Cream." 



Under the direction of Mr. I. F. Huddleson there have been two men 

 taking post graduate work on phases of the bacteriology of the repro- 

 ductive organs of cattle. 



Mr. Manuel Justo, one of these men, came to us from Porto Rico. 

 He has submitted a very excellent thesis on, "The Comparative Study 



