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internal arrangements of farm buildings, and their adaptation to the purposes for which intended; different systems of farm economy, and circumstances governing their adoption; rotations and sequence of farm operations; farm accounts.

IN COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.-Anatomy, physiology and hygiene of the domestic animals.

IN VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY.-Prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries of the domestic animals.

ECONOMICS.-Grain raising, stock raising, dairying, general farming, fruit culture, market gardening and other specialties; legislation relating to agriculture; relations of agriculture to commerce, manufactures, labor, government, taxation, &c.

TEXT BOOKS AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE.-Johnson's How Crops Grow and How Crops Feed; Caldwell's Agricultural Chemical Analysis; Thomas's American Fruit Culturist; Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist; Bryant's Forest Trees; Chauveau's Anatomy of the Domestic Animals, Gray's Systematic Botany, Darlington's American Weeds and Useful Plants; Downing's Landscape Gardening; Loudon's Horticulturist; Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America; Harris's Insects Injurious to Vegetation; Entomological reports; Morton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture; Stephens's Book of the Farm; Allen's New American Farm Book; Allen's American Cattle; Randall's Practical Shepherd; Harris on the Pig; Gamgee's Domestic Animals in Health and Disease; Stonehenge's The Horse in the Stable and the Field.

11. THE ELEMENTARY COURSE.

STUDENTS, 1875-6.-Messrs. Griswold and Scofield.

This course agrees in the main with the Scientific Course of the Collegiate Department, but differs from it in the substitution of some Natural Sciences and practical instruction for

Languages and Mathematics in the latter part.

The requisites

for admission are the same as for admission to the Collegiate Department.

So far as practicable the students of this department recite with the classes of the Collegiate Department. The same rhetorical, military and other exercises are required as in that department.

While the above schemes indicate when regular and systematic instruction in the different studies will be given, instruction in PRACTICAL agriculture and horticulture will be given at va

rious times throughout the whole course. The farm and gardens will be made to afford every possible facility for observation and practice, and enough of the latter will be required of all regular students in this Department to give them skill in the different operations of the farm and gardens.

III. SPECIAL COURSES.

While the above courses of study are provided for those who desire a systematic education in scientific Agriculture, the Board of Regents provide in their By-Laws for the ADMISSION OF ANY PERSONS TO ANY CLASS upon the sole condition that they appear to be competent to receive the instruction. Thus are the doors of the College of Agriculture thrown wide open to all disposed and qualified to profit by its instruction.

IV. THE FARMERS' LECTURE COURSE.

This course is specially designed to meet the wants of farmers and others who desire scientific and practical information relating to their calling, and whose business prevents them from spending an entire year away from home. These lectures will extend through ten weeks, two being given on each of five days in the week, while exercises equivalent to a third lecture will be given in Practice in the Chemical Laboratory, in Drawing, in Farm Accounts, or in Reading in the Library.

The instruction given will be both scientific and practical The former will include Agricultural Chemistry, Botany, Physiology, Entomology, Geology and Mechanics, and will be given by those professors who have these departments in charge in the University. The latter will include the Improvement of Soils by Drainage, Subsoiling, Trenching, Plowing, Rotations, Manures, &c. Grain Raising, Stock Raising, Dairying, Fruit Culture, Forest Culture, Farm Accounts, and Rural Architecture, and will be given by the Professor of Agriculture and by

men who have become successful and noted in these special departments.

No fees, examinations, or other conditions will be imposed for admission to this course, but its advantages will be ABSOLUTELY FREE to all.

NOTICE.

The above course of lectures will be given next year, (1876-7), provided that by the first day of November, 1876, thirty persons not members of any class in the University shall have signified to Professor Chas. Y. Lacy their intention to attend this course.