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GENERAL DESCRIPTION- OF COURSES

a detailed study of methods employed in securing yield aside from questions of fertilizers or fertility. The selection of varieties suited to the locality and their improvement; the seed, its pedigree and vitality; the conditions of its germination, and the influence of successful or unsuccessful germination upon aftergrowth of the plant; the physical conditions of growth—moisture,' heat, and light—and how these conditions may be influenced by cultivation, by drainage, or by irrigation. This course leads to a study of the special culture of particular crops, and of the machinery of cultivation and of harvesting, and prepares the way for the subsequent study of fertility and the more critical study of soils. Fall and spring terms, two-fifths study. . 2. BREEDS OF STOCK.—An outline of the principal characteristics of the improved breeds, with some critical study of the animal form as an index of quality, and of the types of the more prominent breeds. Instruction is by outline lectures, reference reading, and by practice in judging at the yards. Introductory to the study of stock breeding. Practicum once a week on Saturday. Fall term, one-fifth study. Professor

DAVENPORT.

3. STOCK BREEDING.—Variation, its extent and importance, both in nature and under domestication. How far inherent and how far induced by environment. Acquired characters and their inheritance. Correlated variation. Selection. Survival of the fittest. Possibility of fixing favorable variations. Effects of use and disuse. Intercrossing, first as stimulating, afterwards as eliminating variations. Hybridism. Grading and its benefits. Breeding in line and inbreeding. Instinct and intelligence. The aim is to bring every known principle of reproduction to the assistance of the breeder's art, and to study the methods of successful breeders and their results. Lectures, reference reading, and practice in comparisons .of individuals, and, as far as possible, of families and herds. Fall term, full study, Professor DAVENPORT. 4. FERTILITY.—Influence of fertilizers on the amount, character, and composition of crops. Effect of particular crops upon fertility and upon each other, when grown in* succession or together. Nitrogen and leguminous crops. Residues, or the fate of fertilizers. The foregoing is made a basis for the study of conservation of fertility by the rotation of crops that