The Course in Agriculture provides for a liberal education in the sciences underlying and appertaining to the arts of Agriculture and Horticulture, and is so constructed as to thoroughly prepare the student for a successful pursuit of these avocations.

An excellent opportunity is offered the student in this course for an extended study of the natural sciences, much of this work being required of all students in this course, as shown by the curriculum, and other advanced work being left to the discretion of the student, with the consent of the Faculty.

The instruction in the subject of agriculture is given through the use of text books, supplemented by lectures. The text-books used are Emerson and Flint's Manual of Agriculture, and Stewart's Irrigation tion for the Farm, Garden and Orchard. Daily recitations are given in this subject during the first term of the Senior year.

As the live stock interests of Nevada rank among the foremost of those of this State, especial attention is given to the subject of stock feeding, stock breeding and dairying. Two exercises are given each week of the Senior year, with Armsby's Manual of Cattle Feeding, and Stewart's Dairyman's Manual as text-books.

Stock breeding includes the study of methods of breeding and improving domestic animals, the history of the various breeds and a careful study of typical animals in each. Lectures are given upon the subject. and Miles' Stock Breeding and Curtis' Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Swine used for text-books. The work in this consists of three recitations weekly for the first term.

In the subject of Forestry the utility of the forest areas is discussed, the extent and character of forest legislation and the description and the value of various species for different uses considered.

Fuller's Practical Forestry is used as the text-book, and Brisbin's Trees and Tree Planting and the publications of the Forestry Bureau used for reference.

Meteorology is taught by lectures, discussing atmospheric phenomena and by practice in taking and recording meteorological observations.

Veterinary Medicine and Surgery is taught from the text of Laws' Farmer's Veterinary Adviser and by means of lectures, five exercises a week being given to this subject, during the second and third terms of the Senior year.

The work in Zoology and in Comparative Anatomy and Physiology will have prepared the student for the pursuit of this study to the best advantage.

In Gardening, Henderson's Gardening for Profit is used for text-book, but lectures are largely given upon the subjects of vegetable gardening, landscape gardening and floriculture. A history of gardening and a study of garden literature is given and practice in making plans for private and public grounds. This work occupies two exercises weekly during the third term of the Senior year.

Fruit culture is taught by means of lectures and a study of Fuller's Small Fruit Culture and Bailey's Field Notes on Apple Culture.

The student is given practice in the cultivation and care of fruits and the laying out of a garden. There are in this subject three exersises a week during the third term of the Senior year.

Field practice consists of actual work in the preparation of the soil and planting and cultivating of farm and garden crops and the setting, pruning, budding, grafting, and care and cultivation of fruit trees.

NOTE.-Drills in Vocal Music, Drawing, Declamation, Composition, Talks and Story Telling are continued throughout the course.

THE NORMAL SCHOOL.

For intelligent people, and for them alone, is a republican form of government the best. Hence the recognition of the public school as the

foundation of the State.

It is poor economy, however, to expend millions for the support of public schools and place them in the hands of unskilled teachers, for it is a recognized fact that the teacher makes the school either valuable or valueless, according to his competence.

If the teacher be poor, no modern appliance can make a good school. "A Normal School, under the care and direction of the State, is a necessary part of a State educational system."-U. S. Commissioner of Education. Not only does the welfare of the schools demand that the teachers be trained in the State, but the interests of the young people who are to become teachers demand it.

In accordance with an Act of the Legislature, approved February 7, 1887, a school for the instruction of teachers was established in the State University in September of the same year.

In September, 1888, the training school was added in compliance with the same Act. The course of study covers three years work in the common school branches, advanced sciences, English and mathematics, and three years' professional work, and leads to an elementary diploma, on which the State Board of Education issues a State educational diploma, good for six years.

After three years' experience in teaching and a year's study under the direction of the Faculty of the University, the life Diploma is given, which entitles the owner to a Life Diploma of the State Board of Edůcation.

The first year of professional work, one term is given to Theory and Practice of Teaching, in which school organization and management, fitness, necessity for training, and the responsibility of the work are discussed.

The second term is given to the History of Pedagogy. The school systems of other lands and times, the lives and the theories and practices of the world's great teachers, are carefully studied.

The third term is given to the History of the Kindergarten, not with the view of making kindergarteners, but to gain a comprehension of the principles underlying Froebel's great system of child culture.

The second year's professional work consists of lectures on methods of instruction in the common school branches and reviews of the same in connection with the work. The lectures are reproduced in written form by the students and are subject to the criticism and judgment of the professor in charge.

The third year two terms are given to the Sciences of Education Curricula of study, relative values of knowledge, and the principles underlying physical, mental and moral education are discussed.

The third term is spent on the Nevada school law.

All students in the second and third years of the course practice in the training school. It is the purpose of the Regents to enlarge the school in September, 1890, to afford increased opportunities for this invaluable part of Normal work.

All students in the department, when not engaged in recitations, are expected to be in the training school to observe the work of the same.

The public schools of Reno are visited and intelligent reports of work seen are exacted. School journals are taken by the students and read and exchanged so that a broad view of the school work in the United States is gained. Drills in Vocal Music, Drawing, Calisthenics, Composition, Declamation, Talks and Story Telling are continued throughout the entire course so that opportunity is afforded for proficiency in these important arts. Supplementary reading in history, biography, travels, geography and pedagogy is continually required and directed.

In order that the Normal School may be of genuine service to the teachers of Nevada, the Faculty will welcome at any time of the year those who have leisure for study, and will endeavor to make their stay in the University profitable to them, either for reviews, advanced study or professional training.

REGULATIONS FOR TRAINING SCHOOL.

Children desiring places in the Training School must make application in writing to the President of the University, stating age, present attainments in scholarship and schools which they have attended. These applications will be considered in their order, and applicants will be examined as vacancies occur in the school. All applications will be considered cancelled at the close of each year, ending August 31. After applicants are given places in the Training School they must procure the prescribed uniform, books and all required supplies before enrollment in their classes. Pupils whose conduct or work is unsatisfactory will be required to withdraw from the school.

The course of study for the Training School is that published and recommended by the County Superintendent of Washoe county.

The course of study in this department is designed to prepare young men and women for entrance upon a practical business life.

It is not encumbered with any superfluous studies and deals with the practical requirements of a business education. It embraces bookkeeping, penmanship, commercial arithmetic, English grammar and correspondence, descriptive geography, general history, civil government, commercial law, rhetoric and composition.

As in all courses of commercial study, book-keeping is the framework of the business course, and the most practical treatise upon this subject now in print in the United States is used as the text book.

In this subject individual instruction is given besides class drills in theory and practice. By this method each student can make all the progress he may be capable of, regardless of the slow advance of any.

The work in this branch comprises four departments, viz: Initiatory, Intermediate, Advanced and Business Practice.

Initiatory. In this department the student is thoroughly taught the theory and principles of double entry book-keeping, and by a practical course of written exercises advanced to the next.

Intermediate. In this the student is taught the forms of negotiable paper, business forms and documents and mercantile terms, and given constant practice in book-keeping, and upon passing a successful examination is promoted to the advanced department.

In this last the student is taught all transactions that may occur in actual business, such as keeping a practical set of books, with different buying and selling price lists, writing notes, drafts, checks, deposit tickets, receipts, orders, acceptances, business correspondence and banking, and is thoroughly drilled in the application of the principles of percentage, and the rapid methods of computing interest and discount.