Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873 [PAGE 55]

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3. The Farm.—Farm implements—principles of structure and use. Eoad making. Animal Husbandry.—Breeds and varieties of neat cattle, horses, sheep and swine; principles of breeding, rearing training, fattening, etc.; chemical composition of food, and preparation of the several varieties; poultry ; bees; veterinary surgery and medicine. Fruit Growing. Book-keeping.—Farm book, herd book, etc. Rural Law.—Tenures and conveyances of land, highways, cattle, fences, noxious weeds, e t c , laying out estates. 4. Agricultural Economy.—The relation of agriculture to the other industries and to commerce; the several branches of agriculture ; farm buildings; climate ; influence of light, heat and electricity on soils and vegetable growth; foreign and ancient farming; dairy farming, and general farm manufactures—cheese, butter, cider, vinegar, etc.; history and literature of agriculture.

The instruction is aided by, and and illustrated with practical exercises on the Experimental and Stock Farms, and in the management of fine and graded stock of several varieties. But it must be fully understood that it is no part of the business of the department to teach the mere manual processes of plowing, hoeing, harvesting, etc.; these can be learned in the employ of some good practical farmer, such as may be found in every township. *

HORTICULTURE.

The studies in this department will include the formation, management and care of gardens, hot-beds, propagating houses, green-houses, nurseries, orchards, tree plantations and ornamental grounds. The instruction will be from text-books and by lectures in the class room, together with illustrations and applications in the propagating and greenhouses, botanical gardens and arboretum, and upon the vegetable and fruit grounds.

2. Composition and classes of soils, with reference to their uses; fertilizers; vegetable physiology, and laws of growth of plants ; chemical treatment of soils ; manufacture and application of manure ; laying out and mapping of grounds; mechanical treatment of soils; drainage; insects injurious to vegetation. 3. Fruit growing; planting and treating of orchards; forest culture; management of nurseries propagating, grafting, etc.; plans of orchards, gardens, etc.; records, management of market and vegetable gardens ; small fruit culture. 4. Care of hct and green-houses; propagating houses; conservatories; floriculture; garden architecture ; ornamentation; green-housework; landscape gardening ; ancient and foreign horticulture.

ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE.

See the Schools of Engineering and the School of Architecture, pages 32 and 38; also the courses of study on page 63.

CHEMISTRY.

To accommodate those who have a particular object in view, this department has three special courses of Laboratory work arranged. See also pages 39 and 63, and list of Periodicals, page 58.

Agricultural. 1. Inorganic, Organic and Agricultural Chemistry; Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Salts; Chemical Physics. 2. Analysis of Clays, Marls, Mineral Waters, Manures, Soils and Vegetable Products. ?. Isolation of Organic Acids and Bases; Estimation of Hydrogen, Carbon, Sulphur, Sugar, Tannin etc. 4. Analysis of Air, Illuminating Gas, etc.; Study of Poisons.