FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IX. 629 



articles in the carpenter shop which they have to "iron" in the forge 

 shop. 



The course in farm machinery consists in studying the history of 

 the development of the various farm implements and the principals of 

 their construction. The various implements are brought into the operat- 

 ing room, where they are taken to pieces and then assembled by the 

 students. Special emphasis is made in their proper adjustment for the 

 best work. 



Binders, mowers, corn harvesters, plows, wagons, corn buskers and 

 shredders, corn planters and cultivators, drills and seeders, all receive 

 careful study by the individual students. 



The course in farm motors consists in a study in the construction 

 and operation of traction engines, gasoline engines, windmills, and other 

 forms of farm motors. 



Besides these required courses for all agricultural students, the de- 

 partment offers elective courses in farm implement design and construc- 

 tion; also research work and investigations in the strength of building 

 materials, rural telephones, traction tests, silo construction, arrangement 

 of farm water supplies, irrigation machinery, etc. CJourses are also offered 

 for post graduate work along most any line of agricultural engineering 

 in which the student is interested and for which he is fitted by previous 

 training. 



While the course was only started last fall, the work is already well 

 in hand, and students are enrolled from numerous States in the Union, 

 and some have come from Mexico and South America to take up this 

 work. 



