DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



47 



Winter Term. 



Soph. Ag 

 Junior Ac. 

 Senior Ag. 

 Senior .4g . 

 .Senior Ag. 

 Senior Ag. 



I'lant Propagation , 



Greenhouse Industry 



Evoiufion of Cultivated Plants 



Semiiiar 



Adv. Ponjology 



Adv. Landscape Gardening 



123 

 38 

 42 

 43 

 37 

 6 



Spring Tena. 



The courses for siib-fresliDien and freshmen are required of all agri- 

 cultural students and all courses offered in the junior and senior year 

 are optional or elective. 



The greatest need of the department at this time is additional room, 

 both in the laboratory and greenhouse. This laboratoi'y was built just 

 twent3'-five years ago and has never been enlarged; the greenhouses were 

 built twenty-one years ago and never enlarged. Any comparison that 

 could be made between this equipment and conditions at the college 

 at the present time would be unnecessary. An entirely new outfit of 

 buildings must be provided very soon if it is desired to maintain the 

 work in horticulture at this college in a reasonable relation to its im- 

 portance as an industry in Michigan. 



The extension work has grown so much that it is an impossibility 

 for the one man to satisfy the demands for profitable meetings and re- 

 quests for instruction on better methods of orcharding. The entire 

 time of another man for this work is much needed. 



The method of doing this demonstration work has been the same as 

 in the preceding years. Neighborhood meetings are arranged and widely 

 announced b}" large posters and notices sent in advance to the local 

 newspapers. At the appointed time, the people who are interested meet 

 in the orchard selected for the demonstration and after a talk intended 

 to explain the reason for doing the Avork, the way to do it is shown and 

 made clear to every person present. These demonstration meetings are 

 planned to come at a time when the subject under discussion is timely 

 and of the most interest in the community. Where possible, they are 

 given in a series, beginning with pnming and ending with packing. 



The short course in fruit growing Avas very successful. This year it 

 was given in six weeks followed by two weeks of work in vegetable and 

 tnick crop production. A number of the students who were registered 



