DEPARTMENT OF FARM MECHANICS. 



I, TEACHING. 



The number of students who received instruction in the course-^ 

 offered by this Department is given in the following table: 



No. re- Total 

 ceiving No. j 

 marks, taught. 



Farm mechanics 51. Fall term 63 69 



Farm mechanics. Special term 2 2 



Farm mechanics. Special spring term . 2 2 



Farm mechanics 51 W. Winter course 41 59 



Farm engineering 52. Spring term 65 83 



Total 173 215 



During the fall term and the winter-course, all of the work of 

 the Department was conducted by the writer, but the unexpected 

 heavy registration in Farm Engineering for the spring term made 

 it necessary to have some additional help. Mr. B. B. Robb was em- 

 ployed and did excellent work as student aassistant for that term. 



The lack of adequate laboratory space was sorely felt and re- 

 sulted not only in the elimination of practically all bulky machines 

 from the laboratory but also in the actual crowding of the students 

 at their work, thus materially interfering with the completeness 

 and effectiveness of the teaching. To offset this difficulty as far 

 as possible special apparatus was arranged to show the essentials of 

 some machines, with the bulky but unimportant parts removed. 

 More of this condensed apparatus will be prepared each year and it 

 is hoped that it will not only increase the efficiency of our laboratory 

 instruction, no matter how much space will be available in the fu- 

 ture, but also that it will be of value to the teachers of Farm Me- 

 chanics in the other agricultural schools of the state in which the 

 available space will always be more or less limited. 



II, INVESTIGATION. 



The investigation of spray nozzles mentioned in last year's re- 

 port has been about two-thirds completed. A machine called a 

 " sprayograph," for taking records of the distribution and char- 



