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UNIVERSITY O F I L L I N O I S ,

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Bequired: Entrance to the University, or Veterinary Science 1, 2, and Animal Husbandry 1. Eequired for graduation.

3. LIVE STOCK MANAGEMENT.—Housing and care of farm animals and

their surroundings, barns, stables, yards, management of breeding animals, and training of horses for labor, driving, and saddle. Lectures and reference readings. Second half of second semester; full study. H. STOCK FEEDING.—Study of foods, their chemical composition, potential energy, and mechanical condition as well as their proper combination looking to the economic production of meat, milk, wool, or labor.and the development of the young. First semester; full study. Bequired: One year of Chemistry; one year of Botany or Zoology; one semester of Physics or Physiology. *5. STOCK BREEDING.—The improvement of domestic animals through the principles of heredity, variation, and selection and the influence of environment; critical study of breeders' methods and results. Second semester; full study. Bequired: One year of Botany or Zoology. *6. MINOR.—The place of live stock in American affairs; the types most needed; the several characters of the principal breeds and the leading features of live stock management. Lectures, two-fifths study. Designed for University students specializing in other lines than animal husbandry. Bequired: One year of University work. Second semester; M., W., F.; three-fifths study. *7. HORSES.—Exhaustive study of breeding types, management, and market interests. Designed for special students desiring particular instruction in horses. Lectures each week, reference reading and individual study, and practice in judging. Second semester; full study. *8. CATTLE.—Same as with horses and under same condition. First semester; full study. *9. SHEEP.—Same as with horses and cattle. First half of second semester. *10. SWINE.—Same as with sheep. Second half of second semester.

*11. T H E S I S REPRESENTING INDIVIDUAL WORK OF THE STUDENT. One

year.

Required for graduation with animal husbandry as major.

VETERINARY SCIENCE.

1. ANATOMY.—A thorough knowledge of the structure of the horse and other domestic animals. The instruction comprises lectures, demonstrations and dissections. The lectures include: First, a description of the locomotary apparatus, viz., the bones, articulations, and muscles; second, a minute description of the viscera; third, a detailed description of the relation of the blood vessels and nerves and of the brains and organs of the senses. The lectures are illustrated by drawings, models, and specimens from recent subjects. First semester; three-fifths study. 2. PHYSIOLOGY.—The purpose of this course is to make students thoroughly acquainted, so far as time permits, with modern physiology; its methods, its deductions, and the basis on which the latter rests. Instruction in this branch is imparted by lectures, and the more important facts are impressed by frequent examinations. First semester; Tu., lh.; two-fifths study. 3. MATERIA MEDIC A.—The instruction includes therapeutics, toxicology, pharmacy, prescription-writing, etc. The lectures of this branch will be illustrated by a large collection of specimens of the various drugs, both in their crude and prepared state, as used by veterinarians, so that the student may become familiar *with the mode of administering the various drugs. Iwo semesters; full study.

4. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY.—

These lectures include the whole range of general pathology of the domestic