Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 212]

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COURSE IN AGRICULTURAL

SECOND YEAR.

CHEMISTRY.

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First Term.—Same as in chemical course. Second Term.—Lectures and class work in agricultural chemistry. Analysis of feldspar, soil, ash of plants, drain waters. Third Term.—Agricultural chemistry. Analysis and valuation of commercial fertilizers, and manures, and material used for manures, apatite, phosphates, guanos, nitrates, ammonia salts, animal matters, and potash salts.

T H I R D YEAR.

First Term.—Proximate analysis of farm products and cattle foods; grain, roots, fodders, commercial foods, etc. Second Term.— Analysis of milk, butter, and cheese. Determination of sugars by polariscope and by titration. Examination of alcoholic liquors. Third Term.—Original research. B. Arranged especially for regular students in the School of Agriculture.

FIRST YEAR.

Same as in chemical course.

SECOND Y E A R .

First Term.—Same as in chemical course. Second Term.—Agricultural chemistry. Lectures and class work. Analysis of feldspar, soil, plant ash, fertilizers and manures, and the materials used in their productions; phosphates, nitrogenous matters, and potash salts. Third Term.—Agricultural chemistry. Lectures and class work. Analysis of farm products—grains, roots, fodders, commercial foods, milk, butter, and cheese. METALLURGICAL COURSE.

FIRST Y E A R .

First Term.—Same as in chemical course. Second Term.—Same as in chemical course. Third Term.—Same as first term, second year chemical course.

SECOND YEAR.

First Term.—Analysis of ores, iron, manganese, zinc, copper, lead, nickel, etc. Second Term.—Assaying. Same as in chemical course. (Students who pursue this term's work must have one term of mineralogy.) Third Term.—Analysis of refractory materials, fluxes, and slags.

T H I R D YEAR.

First Term.—Gas analysis. Same as in chemical course. Study of furnace gases. Second Term.—Analysis of fuels—wood, anthracite and bituminous coals, ooke; determination of heating power. Third Term.—Analysis of cast iron, wrought iron, and steel. Determinations of sulphur, silicon, manganese, phosphorus, and the forms of carbon.