AGRONOMY. 



The following report concerns the operations of the Department 

 of Agronomy for the Federal year ended June 30, 1907 (near the 



period when Professor Hunt severed his connection with Cornell 

 University). 



I. Teaching Work. 



The courses of study and the numbers of students pursuing them 

 in the Department of Agronomy during the year 1906-7 have been 

 as follows : 



Agronomy i, first term 93 



Agronomy 3, first term 6 



Agronomy 4, second term 23 



Agronomy 5, throughout the year 9 



Agronomy 11, first term 58 



Agronomy in, second term 33 



Agronomy 12, second term 61 



Agronomy 13, first term 12 



Agronomy 14, second term 14 



Agronomy 15, first term 13 



Agronomy 15, second term IS 



Agronomy 16, first term 12 



Agronomy 19, first term 15 



Agronomy 19, second term 12 



Farm Machinery 52, second term 65 



Agronomy, Winter-Course students 81 



Post-Graduates, first term (in residence) 9 



Post-Graduates, second term (in residence) 7 



The repetition of course 1 1 given in the first term as course 1 1 1 

 in the second term has been found a satisfactory arrangement. It 

 has reduced the number of students in each term, has kept the 

 facilities for this work in use throughout the year and has enabled 

 a modification of the instruction to meet the needs of the diflfercnt 

 groups of students. Without such division the facilities of the 

 department woidd have been greatly overburdened. .Attention is 

 called to the fact that instruction should be offered in agronomy 12, 

 first term, for students who took agronomy iii, second term, this 

 year. Next year, agronomy tot will be offered in the first term in 

 place of agronomy i, and agronomy i will be given in the second 

 term. This is done with the understanding that agricultural chem- 



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