Department of Farm Crops. ig 



Number of hours of instruction given (registration multiplied by 

 hours per week not including work of graduates) : 



First term 182 



Second term ocg 



Total for year ,♦ C41 



Proposed changes in courses. — It was hoped that a course in Farm 

 Management might be offered for specials this year, also an addi- 

 tional course in Forage Crops and one in Advanced Laboratory 

 work. These courses all had to be postponed until next year, when 

 it is hoped that there will be facilities and teaching force sufficient 

 to offer them. 



Extension Work. 

 ■ Fifty-three per cent, of the salaries and running expenses of the 

 department has been expended for extension work, if we include the 

 surveys and co-operative experiments under this head. 



About one-fourth of the time of the writer is required for answer- 

 ing farmers' letters and correspondence with co-operative experi- 

 menters. Professor White and the writer have spent five weeks 

 lecturing at farmers' meetings. A total of twenty-three weeks of ad- 

 ditional time of either Professor White or the writer has been spent 

 in co-operative experiment work, survey work, attendance at fairs, 

 and the like. 



This department did not have sufficient funds to continue those 

 lines of co-operative experiment work that required much expense. 

 Some of these experiments were dropped and others were continued 

 by the Department of Farm Practice. The following experiments 

 were started during the year : 



Alfalfa 123 



Vetch 16 



Clover 4 



Pasture experiments (No. no) 19 



New seeding pastures 15 



Old seeding pastures 13 



Fertilizers for meadows 25 



Farm accounts 14 



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