DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 35 



INSTRUCTION IN CLASSES. 



During the j^ear instruction has been given in elementary chemistry 

 to the students in the sophomore class in the agricultural course and to 

 the students of the same class in the women's course, for one term. 

 The instruction in both classes included Ave lectures a week and two 

 hours of laboratory work. 



The same students in these two courses devoted one term (two hours 

 a day) to analytical chemistry, and the following term to organic chem- 

 istry, with laboratory practice. ■ 



In the mechanical course, the students spent six hours a week in 

 mineralogy, or the special study of the metals as related to mechanics. 



During the winter term a course of lectures was given to the junior 

 agriculturals on agricultural chemistry. 



In the spring term a course of lectures on meteorology was given to 

 the senior agriculturals who elected that study. 



The following scheme of number of students, hours of class work and 

 studies, will give at a glance the work of the department: 



Fall term. Students. Hours per week. 



General Cliemistry 93 7 



Organic " 40 8 



133 • 15 



Winter term. Students. Hours per week. 



General Chemistry 69 7 



Agricultural " 86 5 



Analytical " 65 10 



- 180 22 



Spring terra. Students. Hours per week. 



Mineralogy 44 6 



Meteorology . .' 10 5 



54 11 



Sugar beets 10 (8 weeks) 36 



In addition to the regular class studies, some students devoted special 

 attention to other lines of chemical study and work, e. g., assaying of 

 precious metals, analysis of coals, fertilizers, etc. 



SUGAR BEETS. 



The College for years has taken a lively interest in the sugar beet 

 industry. In the winter and spring of 1899 the Chemical Department 

 organized a class in beet-sugar technology, giving instruction in the 

 analysis of sugar beets and determining its leading constituents, and 

 affording the practical working of apparatus for rapid determination 

 of the questions involved in the manufacturing of beet sugar. Such 

 good results were reached in this course that four of the class. (A. N. 

 Clark, H. S. Keed, W. S. Watling and F. E. West) found ready em- 

 ployment in as many factories in this State. 



At a corresponding date this year a class of ten presented themselves 

 for instruction in the sugar beet course, spending six hours a day in 

 .analysis of the sugar beet with the most approved machinery and ap- 



