52 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



present a student must elect for specialization, during the junior and 

 senior years, either pomology or landscape gardening. New courses 

 should be added to give the opportuniity for specialization in vegetable 

 gardening and floriculture. These industries are both of great economic 

 importance in Michigan. As soon as facilities are available, it is also 

 desirable to offer courses in horticultural products, to include work in 

 canning, drying, the making of fruit juices and otherwise utilizing various 

 horticultural crops. 



The courses in landscape gardening at present are largely confined to 

 students specializing in this subject. The only course otherwise offered 

 is a three credit course in the spring term required of all horticultural 

 students. It would seem desirable that all agricultural students should 

 take at least one course in this subject to develop their appreciation for 

 rural beauty and to learn some of the basic principles of laying out the 

 farm home grounds. There is also an increasing demand for extension 

 work along this line in directing and promoting the beautifying of rural 

 towns and homes. 



Kespectfully submitted, 



C. P. HALLIGAN, 

 Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. 

 'East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1922. 



REPORT OF FARM MANAGEMENT TEACHING. 



President David Friday, 



Michigan Agricultural College. 

 Dear Sir: 



During the year 1921-22 the Farm Management Department gave 

 courses to college, federal, and short course men, and also gave a special 

 course of lectures at the summer conference of teachers in Smith-Hughes 

 high schools. 



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Material for ,a course in Farm Organization and Farm Accounting 



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has been gathered, organized, and mimeographed for classroom use. 



Material for a high school course in Farm Accounting has been as- 

 sembled and arranged in outline form and furnished to high school 

 teachers of agriculture. This material was used as a regular basis of 

 high school teaching in fifteen high schools and promises to be used in 

 ahout double that number next year. 



Much work was also done with high school teachers of agriculture in 

 the matter of handling "home projects" in farm accounting. Under the 

 plan of this project, the boy on the thirty-first day of December of his 

 junior year in high school, takes an inventory on the home farm. He 

 begins keeping financial, feed, and yield records which he continues for 

 twelve months, at the end of which time, he takes a closing inventory. 

 The year's records having thus been completed he is ready for his sum- 

 marization, which he does in the farm management class during the 

 remainder of the senior year. By introducing this work into the high 



