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The instruction is aided by, and illustrated with practical exercises on the Experimental and Stock Farms, and in the management of fine and graded stock of several varieties. But is must be fully understood that it is no part of the business of the department to teach the mere manual processes of plowing, 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, greenhouses, nurseries, orchards, tree plantations and ornamental grounds. The instruction will be from text-books and by lectures in the classroom, together with illustrations and applications in the propagating and green-houses, botanical garden and ai'boretum, and upon the vegetable and fruit grounds. 2. 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 treatment of soils; Drainage; Insects injurious to vegetation. 3. Fruitgrowing; 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. 4. Care of hot and green-houses; Propagating houses; Conservatories; Floriculture; Garden architecture; Ornamentation; Greenhouse work; Landscape gardening; Ancient and foreign horticulture.

ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE.

See the Schools of engineering and the School of Architecture, pages 27 to 36; also the courses of study in Appendix.

CHEMISTRY.

To accommodate those who have a particular object in view, this department has three special courses of Laboratorv work arranged. Also pages 37 and 38, and list of Periodicals.

AGRICULTURAL.

1. Inorganic, Organic, and Agricultural Chemistry; Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Salts; Chemical Physics. 2. Analysis of Clays, Marls, Mineral Waters, Manures, Soils and Vegetable Products. 3. Insolation of Organic Acids and Bases; Estimation of Hydrogen, Carbon, Sulphur, Sugar, Tannin, etc. 4. Analysis of Air, Illuminating Gas, etc.; Study of Poisons.

TECHNICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL.

1. The same as AGRICULTURAL, except Agricultural Chemistry. 2. Quantitative Analysis of Dolomite, Marl, Silicates, and Ores; Preparation of Acids, Alkalies and Salts.