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AGRICULTURAL COURSE.

Required for the Degree of B. S.9 in College of Agriculture.

F I E S T YEAR.

1. Elements of Agriculture; Chemistry; Trignometry; Shop Practice (optional). 2. Elements of Horticulture; Chemistry; British Authors, or Free Hand Drawing. 3. Vegetable Physiology; Chemistry; Rhetoric.

SECOND YEAE.

1. Agricultural Chemistry (Soils and Plants); Botany; German. 2. Agricultural Chemistry (Tillage, Fertilizers,Foods); Botany; German. 3. Economic Entomology; Zoology; German.

THIED YEAE.

1. Agricultural Engineering and Architecture; Animal Anatomy and Physiology; Geology or Ancient History. 2. Animal Husbandry; Veterinary Science; Physics or Mediaeval History. 3. Landscape Gardening; Veterinary Science; Physics or Modern History.

FOURTH YEAE.

1. Meteorology and Physical Geography; Mental Science; History of Civilization. 2. Rural Economy; Constitutional History; Logic. 3. History of Agriculture and Rural Law; Political Economy; Laboratory Work. ONE YEAR COURSE.

Students will be admitted to this course on passing a satisfactory examination in the common school branches, but they will receive greater benefit from it if they have made better preparation, especially if they have a good knowledge of Botany and Chemistry. They should not be less than eighteen years of age. The studies are taught in the following order:

1. Elements of Agriculture; Agricultural Engineering and Architecture; Animal Anatomy and Physiology; Shop Practice. 2. Animal Husbandry; Rural Economy; Veterinary Science. 3. History of Agriculture and Rural Law; Veterinary Science; Practical Entomology or Landscape Gardening. HORTICULTURAL COURSE.

Students wishing to make a specialty of Horticultural studies will in the third and fourth years of the Agricultural course substitute for certain of the above the following:

1. Pomology and Forestry. 2. Floriculture; Plant Houses and their Management. 3. Landscape Gardening.