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ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

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as wheat. Statistical agriculture. Influence of machinery and of land titles, whether resting in the government, in landlord, or in occupant. Relation of agriculture to other industries and to the body politic. / / . ; M.,W.,F.; 2; (3). Professor DAVENPORT. Required: Two years of University work.

5. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTATION.—A systematic study of

the work of experiment stations and experimenters in this and other countries, together with a critical study of correct principles and methods of experimentation, especially designed for such students as desire to fit themselves for work in original investigation in experiment stations or elsewhere. / . ; Tu., Th.; 2; (2). Professor DAVENPORT.

Required: Two years of agriculture. 6. There is required for graduation one year of original investigation in some agricultural subject, the methods and results of which are to be embodied in the form of an acceptable thesis. /. and II.; arrange time; (10). ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 1. LIVE STOCK.—Origin of th breeds of domestic animals and their distinguishing characters; adaptation of breeds for particular purposes and their value for grading, accompanied by critical study and practice in the art of judging both as to breed type and as to constitution and individual merit; care, and management of the live stock of the farm as to housing and feed, particularly directed to the economic sources of feeding stuffs, their equivalency and suitable preparation. / . ; M., Tu., IV., Th.; 1; (4). Professor DAVENPORT. 2. STOCK FEEDING.—Functional activities of the animal body and the end products of their metabolism. Foods are considered, first chemically, as affording the materials for these activities, whether in construction of body tissues or of animal products, as meat, milk, etc.; second dynamically, as supplying the potential energy for these processes, and for labor, speed, etc. A study of the development of the animal after birth and of the phenomena of animal nutrition from the economic standpoint, in which animal activity is considered as an agent for transformation of energy and the resultant product as a source of profit. / . ; first half; daily; 3; (2Vi). Professor

DAVENPORT.

Required: Botany 4; Physics 2; Physiology 4; Zoology I. 3. STOCK BREEDING.—Variation, its extent and importance, both in nature and under domestication; how far inherent and how far