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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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I7 3 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES The semester, the days, and the class period or periods during which each course is given, and the number of "hours" per semester for which the course counts, are shown after each course, as follows: The semester is indicated by the Roman numerals I, I I ; the days, by the initial letters of the days of the week; the class period or periods (of which there are nine each day, numbered consecutively from one to nine), by Arabic figures; and the "hours" or amount of credit, by Arabic figures in parentheses. For example, after the description of Anthropology i (p. 178) occur the abbreviations I.; M., W., F . ; 1; ( 3 ) . These are to be read first semester, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, first period, three "hours." AGRONOMY 1. DRAINAGE, FENCES, AND FARM BUILDINGS.—Location of drains, their construction, efficiency, cost, and durability, including leveling, digging, laying, filling, and subsequent care; also of sewers for disposal of the waste water of buildings and the sewage from kitchen and toilet. The different kinds of fences, their cost, construction, efficiency, and durability, including experience in setting anchor posts. The arrangement, design, and cost of farm buildings. /., first half; II., second half; daily; 3, 4; (2V2). Mr. CRANE. ia. FARM MACHINERY.—The tools and machinery of the farm— hoes, spades, plows, harrows, cultivators, rollers, planters, cutters, grinders, mowers, rakes, binders, wagons, windmills, pumps, and engines—their design, construction, draft, efficiency, durability, and care. The laboratory work consists in setting up and testing machinery, in grinding, thread cutting, and the elements of machine repairing. /., second half; II., first half; daily; 3, 4; (slA). Mr. CRANE. ib. SPECIAL WORK.-—Students may arrange for special work in any of the foregoing lines covering drainage or farm machinery, either in the second semester or the summer. 2. FARM CROPS.—Conditions of germination and growth and the circumstances modifying these conditions. Peculiarities of the different agricultural plants in respect to structure, habits, and requirements for successful growth. Their varieties and susceptibility to improvement; selection and breeding of corn and other
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