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ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY.

business of the department to teach the mere manual process of ploughing, 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 green houses, botanical garden and arboretum, and upon the vegetable and fruit grounds. '

FIRST YEAR—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 teatment of soils. Drainage. Insects injurious to vegetation.

SECOND YEAR. —Fruit growing. Planting and treatment 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. THIRD YEAR.—Care of hot and greenhouses; propagating house; conservatories; floriculture; garden architecture; ornamentation; green house work; landscape gardening; ancient and foreign horticulture.

MECHANICAL SCIENCE, CIVIL ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE AND MINING.

The specialities in these departments have already been fully detailed under the several schools in the College of Engineering.

CHEMISTRY.

To accommodate those who have a special object in view, this department has three special courses of Laboratory work arranged. I. Agricultural. First Year.—Inorganic, Organic, and Agricultaral Chemistry; Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Salts ; Chemical Physics. Second Year.—Analysis of Clays, Marls, Mineral Waters, Manures, Soila and Vegetable Products. Third Year.—Isolation of Organic Acids and Bases; Estimation of Hydrogen, Carbon, Sulphur, &c, Sugar, Tannin, &c. Fourth Tear.—Analysis of Air, Illuminating Gas, &c, and the Study of Poisons.