EDUCATIONAL 



AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION IN THE UNIVERSITY 



The healthy growth of the College of Agriculture is indicated by 

 tlie graduation of eight students in June. 1916, with the degree Bachelor 

 of Science in Agriculture, and one Bachelor of Science doing major 

 work in agriculttu-c. The present senior class numbers eight, most of 

 vdiom will probably be graduated in June, 1917. The enrollment in 

 the College of Agriculture since its organization in 1908 is as follows : 



students 



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1908-1909 2-year course and others 9 



1909-1910 2-year course and others 15 



1910-1911 2-vear course and others 26 



1011-1912 2 and 4-ycar courses and others 38 



Total 

 9 and 4-vr Other receiving 



courses and ^^^^t^^^ instruction 



suecials elect ng- m agri- 



speciais agriculture culture 



1912-1913 26 27 53 



1913-1914 29 9 38 



1914-1915 41 7* 48 



lQlS-1916 59** 3* • 62 



1916-1917 (1st semester onlv) . . 51** 1 52 



♦Including one student in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in agriculture. 

 **Including two graduate students. 



During the first years that instruction in agriculture was given the 

 organization was that of a department rather than a college. Conse- 

 quently all students taking agriculture were enrolled in the Agricultural 

 course. These included preparatory students and students in the 

 general Arts and Science courses. The number of these has diminished 

 from year to year due to the withdrawal of preparatory work and to 

 changes in the curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences by which 

 applied sciences, including agriculture, were segregated and no longer 

 accepted as meeting the requirement in pure science. These losses in 

 numbers have been equalized by new enrollments in the College of 

 Agriculture. 



The organization of the College of Agriculture Ins been strength- 

 ened materially by cataloging the work of the college, formerly all 

 classified as agriculture, in five distinct deiiartments. Agricultural 

 Chemistry, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture, and Plant 

 Breeding. By the fortunate combination of the Agricultural College 



