Department of Experimental Plant-Breeding. Ivli 



graduate student holding the Agricultural Fellowship, attracted 

 over 40 pupils, which shows a strong demand for this type of in- 

 struction. There being no room available in this department in 

 which work of laboratory nature could be given, the laboratory 

 exercises had to be given at irregular intervals in various other 

 laboratories, when such could be found unoccupied, and a number 

 of such exercises had to be entirely omitted as no place could be 

 found in which to give them. No work on the plant side of agri- 

 culture at the present time is receiving more attention or is more 

 important than breeding, and the demand for instruction in this 

 branch will greatly increase now that a properly trained professor 

 has been placed in charge of the instruction. 



The experimental work is overcrowded to such an extent as to 

 form a serious handicap, and for the teaching work no rooms of 

 any sort are available except a small office for the assistant 

 professor in charge. The conditions so seriously threaten the 

 proper development of the work that the writer desires to urge 

 most strongly that steps be taken immediately to secure the housmg 

 of this department in proper laboratories. 



H. J. WEBBER, 

 Professor of Experimental Plant-Breeding. 



