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College of Agriculture.

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illustration to the class-room work in landscape garden'ng. A spacious green-house, recently much enlarged, contains a collection of plants of great value for the classes in floriculture and landscape gardening, besiJes furnishing students with practice in hot-house and green-house management. The library contains the best literature upon these subjects. 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

FIRST YEAR.

Agriculture.

1. Elements of Agriculture; Chemistry; Trigonometry; Stop Fractice (optional). 3. Elements of Horticulture; Chemistry; American Authors, or Free Hand Drawing. 3. Vegetable Physiology; Chemistry; Ehetoric.

SECOND TEAK.

1. Agricultural Chemistry, (Soils and Plants); Botany; German. 2. Agricultural Chemistry (Tillage, Fertilizers, Foods); Botany; German. 3. Economic Entomology; Zoology; German.

THIRD TEAR.

1. Agricultural Engineering and Architecture ; Animal Anatomy and Physiology ; Geology or Ancient History. a. Animal Husbandry; Veterinary Science; Physics or Medireval History. 3. Landscape Gardening; Veterinary Science; Physics or Modern History.

FOURTH TEAR.

1. Meteorology and Physical Geography; Mental Science; History of Civilization. 3. Rural Economy; Constitutional History; Logic. 3. History of Agriculture aud Rural Law; Political Economy; Laboratory Work.

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