14 Report of the Director. 



In this connection, it may be recalled that eight scholarships are 

 now provided by outside agencies in the winter-courses, as follows: 

 six offered by the New York State Grange, of a value of $50 

 each; one by the Stafford Grange (Genesee county) ; one of $75, 

 by Mr. Harrison L. Beatty, to a properly qualified student from 

 the town of Bainbridge. 



Departments of Work Now Represented. 



The following separate organizations or departments now com- 

 prise the State College of Agriculture: Farm Crops, Animal Hus- 

 bandry, Poultry Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry, Horticulture, Farm 

 Mechanics, Home Economics, representing the farm-practice or 

 home-practice group; Soils, Plant Biology (plant-breeding), Plant 

 Physiology, Plant Pathology, Entomology, Agricultural Chemistry, 

 Rural Economy, Rural Art, Drawing, Meteorology, representing 

 the underlying science and art group ; Nature-Study, Reading- 

 Courses, Extension Teaching, representing the outside or extension 

 group. The winter-courses are not organized as a separate entity, 

 but comprise part of the extension work of the various departments. 



Some of these departments represent the old Department of 

 Agronomy, which has now been divided into its natural units. 

 Colleges of agriculture tend to over-organization, to the develop- 

 ment of such large and complex departments that a good part of 

 the time of one or more specialists must be given to mere executive 

 work. In the interest of good teaching and real efficiency in re- 

 search, the specialist should have only such administrative duties 

 as pertain to his specialty. The best teaching and experimenting 

 is personal, and cannot be delegated to subordinates. Agronomy 

 is not a unit or a specialty. We have separated the old department 

 of that name into several, all the units being co-ordinate and each 

 in charge of a specialist. The farms have been made a separate 

 unit or department, in charge of the Professor of Farm Practice, 

 thereby putting the farms into equal relationship with every other 

 department of the college, and allowing every department to have 

 equal opportunity to utilize them for purposes of instruction. 



In the above list of departments, special attention should be called 

 to two that are now first organized or separated. These are Farm 

 Mechanics and Home Economics. 



The Farm Mechanics Department deals with the whole question 

 of developing the mechanical sense in farm students, a line of effort 

 that has heretofore received comparatively little attention. The use 

 of machinery has now come to be a permanent part of the equip- 

 ment for good agriculture, and the kinds of machines are legion. 



