Caption: Course Catalog - 1871-1872
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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. RECOMMENDED COURSES OF STUDY. SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. FlRST YEAR. SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. Same in both Schools. 1st Term. PLANE GEOM. ; CHEM. ; ENGLISH or LATIN ; HIST., two lectures a week. 2ct Term. BOTANY ; CHEM , LAB. PBAC. ; ENGLISH or LATIN ; Hisr., two lectures a week. 3d Term. BOTANY ; ANALYT. CHEM. ; ENGLISH OR LATIN. SECOND YEAR.—same in both schools. 1st Term. 2d Term. 3d Term. SOILS and FERTILIZEBS ; CRYPT. BOT. and VEO. PHYS. ; TRIG, and SORT. ; Fit. or CHEM. CHEM'L TREAT, OF SOILS AND MANURES . DRAW, and M A P . ; ZOOLOGY; F R . or PHYSICS. MEOH. TREAT, OF SOILS AND DRAINAGE ; ENTOMOL. ; F R . or CHEM. or PHYSICS. THIRD YEAR. 1st. FRUIT GROWING, ORCHARDS, etc. ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY. GERMAN or HISTORY. 2d. ANIMAL HDSBANDRY. GEOLOGY. GERMAN or HISTORY. AGR'L BK.-KEEPING, FARM RECORDS. EURAL LAW and ECONOMY. GERMAN or HISTORY. 2d. 1st. THIRD YEAR. FKUIT GROW'G, ORCHARDS, etc. ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY. GERMAN or HISTORY. PROPAGATION OF PLANTS, NURSERIES, etc. GEOLOGY. GERMAN or HISTORY. SMALL FRUITS and VEGETABLES. RURAL LAW and ECONOMY; BK.-KEEPING. GERMAN or HISTORY. 3d. 3d. FOURTH YEAR. let. DAIRY FABM'G and FARM MANUF'S. MENT. P H I L , or CONST. HIST. HIST, OF ENGL. and AM. LITERATURE. VETERINARY SURGERY. PHYS. GEOG. and MINERALOGY. RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 3d. LANDSC. GAKD'G; HIST, OF AO. GEOL. OF I I I . ; POLIT. ECONOMY. Hisr. OF PHILOSOPHY or LOGIC. 3d. 1st. FOURTH YEAR. GREEN HOUSES and G. H. PLANTS. MENT. P H I L , or CONST. HIST. HIST, OF ENGL. and AM. LITERATURE. 2d. GARDEN ARCHITECTURE. PHYS GEOG. and METEOROLOGY. HIST, OF CIVILIZATION. LANDSCAPE GARDENING. GEOLOGY OF I I I . , POLIT. ECON'Y. HIST, OF PHILOSOPHY or LOGIC. 2d. -I. THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. The aim of this school is to educate scientific agriculturists. The frequency with which this aim is misunderstood by the community at large, demands that it shall be carefully explained. Many, looking upon agriculture as consisting merely in the manual work of ploughing, planting, cultivating and harvesting, and in the care of stock, justly ridicule the idea of teaching these arts in a college. The practical farmer who has spent his life in farm labors, laughs at the notion of sending his son to learn these from a set of scientific professors. But all of this implies a gross misunderstanding of the real object of agricultural Rcience. It is not to teach how to plough, but the reason for ploughing at all—to teach the composition and nature of soils, the philosophy of ploughing, of manures, and the adaptations of the different soils to different crops and cultures. It is not simply to teach how to feed ; but to show the composition
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