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'V SPECIAL FACULTY,

THE REGENT. PROFESSOR MORROW, Dean,

PROFESSOR BURRILL,

PROFESSOR PRENTICE,

PROFESSOR M C M U R T R I E .

PROFESSOR JILLSON.

ADMISSION.

f ^ ANIDATES for admission to the College of Agriculture must be at I leastfifteenyears of age, and must pass satisfactory examinations V _ ^ in the common school branches, and in the studies of the preliminary year. While by law, students may be admitted atfifteenyears of age, in general it is much better that they shall be eighteen or twenty. It will be well if candidates shall have pursued other studies besides those required for admission. Tho better the preparation the more profitable the course.

OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE.

The aim of this College is to educate scientific agriculturists and horticulturists. The frequency with which this aim is misunderstood, demands that it shall be fully explained. Many ,who look upon agriculture as consisting merely in the manual work of plowing, 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 this implies a gross misunderstanding of the real object of agricultural science. It is not simply to teach how to plow, but the reason for plowing at all—to teach the composition and nature of soils, the philosophy of plowing, of manures, and the adaptation of the different soils to different crops and cultures. It is not simply to teach how to feed, but to show the composition, action, and value of the several kinds of food, and the laws of feeding, fattening, and healthful growth. In short, it is the aim of the true Agricultural College to enable the student to understand thoroughly all that