Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1879-1880 [PAGE 35]

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College of Agriculture.

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The cabinet contains a series of colored plaster-casts of fruits prepared at the University; models clastiques of fruits and flowers by Auzoux of Paris ; collections of seeds of native and exotic plants; of specimens of native and foreign woods; of beneficial and injurious insects and specimens showing their work ; numerous dry and alcoholic specimens and preparations ; maps, charts, diagrams, drawings, etc. The College is well supplied with compound microscopes and apparatus, and students have abundant opportunity to learn their use, and to make practical investigations with them. The herbarium is rich in specimens of useful and noxious plants, including many of the fungous parasites which cause disease to cultivated crops.

AGRICULTURAL COURSE.

Required for the Degree of B. S. in College of Agriculture.

FIRST YEAR.

1. Elements of Agriculture. Chemistry, Trigonometry, Algebra and Adv. GeometryShop Practice (optional). j . Elements of Horticulture, Chemistry, American Authors, or Free Hand Drawing. 3. Vegetable Physiology, Chemistry, Rhetoric.

SECOND YEAR.

M. Agricultural Chemistry, (Soils and Plants), Botany, German. 2. Agricultural Chemistry (Tillage, Fertilizers, Foods), Botany, German. $. Economic Entomology, Zoology, German.

THIRD YEAR.

a1. Agricultural Engineering and Architecture, Animal Anatomy and Physiology, Geology or Ancient History. j . Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science, Physics or Mediaeval History. 3. Landscape Gardening, Veterinary Science, Physics or Modern History,

FOURTH YEAR.

1. Meteorology and Physical Geography, Mental Science, History of Civilization, 2. Rural Economy, Constitutional History, Logic. 3. History of Agriculture and Rural Law, Political Economy, Laboratory "Work, Graduating Thesis.

N. B.—Students in Horticulture will take the special branches-in Horticulture described on page 30.