DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 45 



repeatedly. This makes an ideal yard bottom when well packed down. 

 It will require the accumulation of cinders for another year to complete 

 the paving of all yards. 



This department has been engaged in a large amount of investigation 

 work which is supported by funds from the experiment station, special 

 live stock appropriation, and farm department. A list of publications 

 issued during the past year is given in my report to the director of the 

 experiment station. 



Respectfully submitted, 



R. S. SHAW, 

 Professor of Agriculture. 

 Agricultural College, June 30, 1907. 



Prof, Jefifery reports the following from the division of agronomy: 



The organization of the division and of its work has remained as it 

 was reported a 3'ear ago, except that in some particulars the extent of the 

 work has been enlarged. 



Apparatus has been purchased which has made it possible to introduce 

 laboratory practice into the soil work of the sub-freshman and freshman 

 years. 



Instruction was given to 93 regular students during the fall term, to 

 14:5 regular students and to 119 special students during the winter term, 

 and to 88 regular students during the spring term. 



Twenty-one days have been given by the head of the division to in- 

 stitute work, ten of which were spent with the special institute train. 



Mr. Samuel Browning, an old and respected resident of the city of 

 1 )etroit, died in that city some months since. During many years of his 

 life he interested himself in the study of Indian corn and made a large 

 collection of saniftles of corn. Many of these samples possess an especial 

 value, both for their age and the sources from which they were gathered. 

 J'rior to his death Mr. Browning devoted much time to carefully catalog- 

 ing his collection. At his death, by Mr. Browning's own direction, the 

 whole collection was given to our department. As soon as room can be 

 provided, the collection will be properly mounted, and it is anticipated it 

 will prove not only of great interest, but of great value as well. 



Mr. F. O. Foster reports the following from the dairy division. 



The records of sales of dairy products, tests of cows in the college 

 herds, and amount produced by those herds, has been turned in to the 

 office of the farm department in daily, weekly and monthly reports, 

 respectively. 



Instruction was given to students in the regular courses as follows: 

 Fall term: advanced dairying, 18 seniors; household dairying, 4 senior 

 women. Winter term: advanced dairying, 15 seniors. Spring term: 

 advanced dairying, 12 seniors. Dairy experimentation, 8 juniors. 

 Elementary dairying, 2 classes, 23 sophomores, 22 freshmen. Valuable 

 assistance was rendered in the laboratory, with sophomores and fresh- 

 men, by Instructors Anderson and McWethy. 



