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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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I38 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE DESCRIPTION OF DEPARTMENTS DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY (p. 172). The Department of Agronomy, with four teachers, gives instruction in those subjects that relate especially to the field and its affairs, as drainage, farm machinery, field crops, the physics and bacteriology of the soil, manures, rotation and fertility, the history of agriculture, farm management and comparative agriculture. The object is to acquaint the student with the facts and principles connected with the improvement of soils, the preservation of fertility, the nature of the various crops, and the conditions governing their successful and economic production and with the development of agriculture. This object is attained by the application of the laboratory methods of study to these subjects and by free use of standard literature. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (p. 176). In this department two instructors give courses covering the types of domestic animals, the separate study of sheep, swine, beef, and dairy cattle and their products, heavy and light horses with their care and training, the management of farm herds, and the principles and practices of feeding and of breeding. The object is to familiarize the student with animals, first as to their fitness for specific purposes; second, as to their care and management; third, as to their improvement by breeding, and fourth, as to the commercial production of animal products. This familiarity is gained by an exhaustive study of the uses of domestic animals; the history and character of their breeds, together with extensive -practice in stock judging, supplemented by a careful study of the methods of successful stockmen and of the known principles of feeding and of organic evolution. DAIRY HUSBANDRY (p. 203.) Two instructors give extended courses in the study of milk and in dairy bacteriology, in the separation of cream and
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