DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. 



I. TEACHING 



The amount of instruction given in the various courses is shown 

 in the tabular statement below: 



I 908-1 909 



First Second 

 term. term. 



Course 31 92 85 



Course ^2 . . 28 



Course 34 34 



Course 36 9 9 



Course ^y 2 2 



Course 38 . . 3 



Course 39 39 



Winter Course, Feeds & Feeding 247 



Winter Course, Breeds & Breeding 83 



As will be seen from the tabular statement of the registration in 

 various classes, a large part of the teaching effort in this Department 

 is given to undergraduate instruction in the elementary principle? 

 of handling and management of farm animals. It is ordinarly 

 desirable that a large amount of actual practice in the handling of 

 animals should be given to these students, but with the large classes, 

 it is difficult to provide as much actual practice as would be desirable. 

 For instance, the Department maintains a flock of about fifty sheep. 

 We attempt to teach our students to use sheep-shearing machines. 

 The class, however, numbers 80 to 90. This means that not every 

 student can shear a single sheep. It would be desirable to have 

 every student shear at least five sheep. This alone would make it 

 necessary to maintain a fiock of between 400 and 500 sheep. The 

 same thing is true in many other details of managing other classes 

 of animals. 



During the past year we have had an indication of our success in 

 teaching principles of stock-judging. A team of three students 

 chosen from undergraduate classes, and composed entirely of special 

 students, competed at the National Dairy Show at Chicago last 

 December with teams from eight other agricultural colleges, and 



