DEPARTMENT OF DRAWING. 



Heretofore instruction in Drawing for Agricultural students has 

 been given in other colleges of the University. While the De- 

 partment of Drawing was established last year it has not had its 

 own quarters until the present year. The mere fact of instruction 

 being given in another College tended to foster the idea that Draw- 

 ing is unrelated to Agricultural studies. It is now hoped that the 

 real, practical value of Drawing to technical students can be made 

 more apparent. "Useful Drawing" is the keynote of the De- 

 partment. 



The present Department equipment, aside from the necessary 

 drawing desks, chairs and office furniture, consists of a small col- 

 lection of household articles, spray pumps and fittings (generously 

 loaned by the manufacturers), a number of smaller mechanical de- 

 vices, geometrical solids, and plaster casts of plant and animal 

 forms, together with a few wall pictures of original drawings and 

 reproductions useful for study. 



I. TEACHING. 



In the past year there were registered in the Department of 

 Drawing one hundred and forty-seven students, and instruction 

 was given as follows : 



Model drawing, that is, study in outline (and later elementary 

 light and shade) of the geometrical solids, cube, sphere, cylinders, 

 prisms, etc., these being the fundamental or type forms of all ob- 

 jects about us, natural or manufactured. After acquiring the ele- 

 ments, and in view of the possibility of their not continuing Draw- 

 ing beyond the required beginning course, these students were 

 given their choice as to the application of their Drawing, whether 

 as elementary Mechanical Drawing or the representation of natural 

 objects, leaf forms, seed pods, flowers, insects, etc. The object.<i 

 studied by those interested in the mechanical application of drawing 

 are such as the student and practical farmer have daily to do with, 

 namely, household articles, pumps, valves, and so forth. It may 

 be here noted that such study leads to a better understanding of 

 the workings of farm machines, a greater interest in machines and, 

 as with the graphic study of common organic forms, the result is a 

 greater attraction in farm life itself. 



In Applied Drawing, the aim is to meet the particular needs o£ 

 the individual student in Agricultural Science, the work being bo- 



