58 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



it being an annual feature. The men attending this course were not 

 counted in the grand total of short course students. 



The two weeks' Oow Testing and Dairy Barn Management Course will 

 not be offered the coming year. The two, four weeks' poultry courises will 

 in the future be combined into an eight weeks' course. Q^he Dairy Pro- 

 duction and Dairy Manufacture courses are planned to cover a twelve 

 weeks period instead of eight, for the coming year. 



The plan of having four 4 week Truck and Tractor Courses instead of 

 two, worked out very advantageously. It resulted in greater economy in 

 instruction due to the better distribution of time. 



Farmers' Week, a feature of our short courses, was under the direction 

 of Mr. Berridge and was a marked success from all angles. The programs, 

 exhibits, parades and shows, were ^'ell conducted. The estimated at- 

 tendance during this week was from 5,000 to 5,500 farmers and farmers' 

 wives. The administration, faculty and student body co-operated to make 

 this event an institutional rather than a divisional affair. 



The Class Day Program held on March 1st was the closing feature of 

 the years' short course work. Eev. W. AV. Diehl and Dean K. S. 

 Shaw gave the main addresses. Kesults of the livestock judging contest 

 were announced and prizes awarded at this meeting. 



The annual trip to the International Livestock and Hay and Grain 

 Exposition was taken bj'^ forty short course men. While in Chicago the 

 men also visited the large packing companies, the Grain Exchange and 

 other large and notable enterprises. This feature of the short course work 

 was well worth while. 



Most of the short course instructional work was handled by the regular 

 instructors and professors of the various departments. The following 

 men, however, were paid all or in part from short course funds : 



E. B. Hill, Director. 

 Ashley M. Berridge, Associate Director. 

 H. J. Gallagher, Instructor in Farm Mechanics. 

 Romaine Walker, Instructor in Wood Shop. 

 B. A. Powell, Instructor in Creamery Mechanics. 

 R. F, Leland, Instructor in Trucks. 

 George A. G^tman, Instructor in Gas Engines. 



Respectfully submitted, 



E. B. HILL, 



Director. 



East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1922. 



