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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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HORTICULTURE 139 the making of butter and cheese, in factory management, city milk supply and the management of dairy farms. The object is to familiarize the student with milk and its products, together with their economic production and their proper care and delivery to the customer in an acceptable form and free from contamination. This is accomplished by a preliminary and exhaustive study of milk, as to its normal character and composition, and the accidents to which it is subject, followed by practice in the various processes in the successful manufacture of dairy products. HORTICULTURE (p. 221). Three instructors conduct courses in orchard management, small fruit culture and vegetable gardening; in nut culture, floriculture, landscape gardening, and forestry; in fruit propagation, greenhouse management, and the evolution of cultivated plants; and in commercial horticulture and nursery management. The purpose is to acquaint the student with the principles and practices of fruit raising and vegetable gardening, both for home and market, and with successful methods of combating insect and fungous enemies. The sense of the beautiful is cultivated and given expression in floriculture and landscape gardening to the end that more of nature's beauty shall pervade the home and its surroundings. The student studies plant life, how to propagate, cultivate, and improve the forms that have been found useful or ornamental in the way of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and trees. As in other departments, he follows the methods of the laboratory in that he learns to do by doing, supplementing everything by numerous references to standard literature. VETERINARY SCIENCE (p. 260). Courses are offered in veterinary anatomy and physiology, materia medica, theory and practice of veterinary medicine and surgery, and veterinary sanitary science. The object is to acquaint the student with the structure and activities of the animal in health, the characteristic symptoms of disease and the materials and methods of successful treatment. He
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