EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XXVII. August, 1912. No. 2. 



The fifth session of the Graduate School of Agriculture was held 

 at the Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, Mich., July 1 

 to 26. As heretofore, the school was under the general management 

 of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experi- 

 ment Stations, through its standing committee on graduate study. 

 The financial support of the school was derived from the contribu- 

 tions of many of the colleges represented in the association, the 

 matriculation fees of the students, and the funds of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College. This institution, through its president and 

 trustees, generously assmned responsibility for the maintenance of 

 the school. President Snyder, Secretary Brown, Dean Shaw, and 

 other members of the facidty made the local arrangements for the 

 sessions and otlierwise contributed in many ways to its success. The 

 lectures and seminars were largely held in tlie great Agricultural 

 Building, admirably adapted for the j^urpose, but the Bacteriologi- 

 cal and Entomological buildings were also used. Tlie lecturers were 

 very pleasantly housed in the spacious Woman's Building, where 

 Dean Gilchrist and her associates in the home economics department 

 did much to make their stay at the college very agreeable ; other 

 buildings, libraries, and other equipment of the college were placed 

 at the disposal of the school. The extensive field experiments, the 

 botanic garden, and the many varieties of trees on the beautiful 

 campus furnished much of interest for observation. Dr. A. C. True, 

 Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, served as dean, as at 

 the previous sessions, and Secretary A. M. Brown, of the Michigan 

 College, acted as registrar. 



Courses of study were offered in the following lines: Soils and 

 plant physiology, animal physiology, agronom}^, horticulture, beef 

 and dairy cattle, swine and poultry, rural engineering, and rural 

 economics, including farm management. As at previous sessions, 

 the hours were so arranged that all interested in plants could attend 

 the course in soils and plant physiology, and those interested in ani- 

 mals the course in animal physiology, and these courses dealt more 

 particularly with fundamental topics considered from the standpoint 



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