DEPARTMENT OF FARM PRACTICE. 



TEACHING. 



The number of students registered in Farm Practice was 19. 

 Owing to the fact that University credit is no longer given for this 

 work, students are less persistent and less regular in prosecuting 

 it than when such credits were given. The average number of 

 hours spent in such instruction has been 7 per week. We are 

 still advising students to seek opi)ortunities to get practical farm 

 experience before entering- the College or during vacation periods 

 instead of during term time, thus allowing themselves a larger part 

 of their time during the term for their regular work. 



There was a total registration in the Winter-Course in General 

 Agriculture of 150 students. Several of these persons had regis- 

 tered in the course before and had taken the Agronomy lectures. 

 The number actually enrolled in the Agronomy lectures for the 

 past seaso'n and taking the work was 144. The lecture work fol- 

 lowed lines similar to those of former seasons and was fully as 

 successful as previously. Owing to the large number of students 

 and the lack of facilities for giving them the afternoon practice 

 work, this work was modified somewhat, but the embarrassment 

 owing to lack of room was still greater than it had previously been. 

 Some of the afternoon periods were devoted to quizzes, not of the 

 ordinary kind in which the instructor quizzes the student, but the 

 kind in which the student quizzes the instructor. The eagerness 

 with which the students engaged in these exercises would seem 

 to indicate that they were desirable. But it should be understood 

 that this foj-m of exercise was adopted in place of the ordinary 

 afternoon practicum simply because we were at a loss to know how 

 else to manage the class. One interesting feature developed. There 

 was a request from numerous members of the class that some gen- 

 eral or miscellaneous lectures by various members of the staff and 

 by invited lecturers be provided. So long as we are lacking suit- 

 able laboratory space, it is the writer's opinion that it may be well 

 for us to further develop the general lecture system. 



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