BOTANY Is taught in connection with Horticulture, and is illustrated by the products of the farm, the garden, the nursery and the greenhouse. It is intended to make the instruction in this department thorough and practical and to have it bear with directness upon the every day problems of the farm and garden. PENMANSHIP AND ACCOUNTS. Students are taught a plain, rapid business hand. The work in accounts is thoroughly practical, students to a great extent furnishing their own data and making their their own calculations. They are drilled in the use of the several books and the common business forms. Special attention is given to folding and filing papers, to business correspondence, habits and methods; the work is so plain and practical that no student need have difficulty in learning to keep accurately the accounts of any ordinary business. THE FARM HOME. Two beautiful and commodious buildings have been erected for the comfort of students. The culinary department is managed by an experienced matron, and the entire house is under the supervision of the principal. The buildings are warmed by steam, and the sleeping rooms are each furnished with a bedstead, mattress, dressing bureau and table. Students will furnish their own pillows, bedding and towels. The Experiment Farm, on which the school is situated, includes two hundred and fifty acres, of which fifteen acres are set apart for the use of the school. Trains on the St. P., M. & M. Ry. stop at St. Anthony Park, one mile distant. Baggage will be transported from the station free. TEXT BOOKS AND TOOLS Will be furnished at a small rental sufficient to cover the necessary wear. Students wishing to do so, may own their books by paying cost prices. EXPENSE. The cost to the students is no more than the actual cost of maintaining the table and caring for the house. This does not exceed three dollars per week. A month's board is assessed in advance for the purchase of provisions at cash prices. At the end of the month the exact cost will be calculated and the proper deduction made from the next assessment. LABOR. This school is conducted upon the principle that character makes all labor honorable. As much, therefore, of the labor at the home and on the farm as can be distributed among the students will be given to them at fair rates of compensation. GRADUATION. Students will be entitled to the certificate of the University upon the following conditions: First. The completion of the prescribed course with an honorable standing in order, thoroughness and intelligence in subjects studied. Second. A practical experience in field work either at the State Farm or elsewhere as shall appear in reports received from responsible sources. This certificate will admit students into any one of the special lines of study provided in the College of Agriculture. For further information, and in making applications for admission, address, W. W. Pendergast, Principal, St. Anthony Park, Ramsey County, Minnesota. STUDENTS' SOCIETIES. STUDENTS' RELIEF SOCIETY:-A society for mutual benefit in caring for the sick, furnishes opportunities for gaining valuable information of the rules of hygiene, insures prompt and efficient care to any who may be sick or injured, and cultivates a spirit of friendship and sympathy. STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY:-A society for the purpose of improvement in elocution and debate and for obtaining instruction in the form of lectures, gives excellent opportunities for entertainment and culture. The following lectures were given under the auspices of this society: Nov. 13, Prof. W. W. Pendergast, "Mound Builders;" Nov. 22, Supt. O. C. Gregg, "Methods for Prairie Farming;" Dec. 4, Prof. H. W. Brewster, "Cremation; " Dec. 11, Prof. J. F. Downey, “Travels in Scotland;" Dec. 18, Prof. H. T. Ardley, "Travels Around the World;" Jan. 1, Prof. W. W. Pendergast, "Indian Massacre;" Jan. 8, Dr. G. E. McLean, "Home Life in the Fatherland; " Jan. 13, Dr. Otto Lugger, "Travels in South America;" Jan. 15, Pres't Northrop, "Benjamin Franklin; " Jan. 22, C. L. Smith, "Battle of Chickamauga;” Jan. 29, Prof. N. W. McLain, "Bee Culture;" Feb. 5, Dr. W. W. Folwell, "The Grand Convention;" Feb. 12, Prof. H. P. Judson, "Tomorrow;" Feb. 19, Rev. H. J. Chandler, "Our Country;" Feb. 26, Prof. C. W. Benton, "The Holy Land;" March 5, Dr. Everett Fish, "Relation of Matter and Force;" March 13, Dr. J. R. Walker, "The Chippewa Indians;" March 19, Thomas Hodgson, "The Civil War;" April 2, Supt. O. C. Gregg, "Practical Education." DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. THE FACULTY. CYRUS NORTHROP, LL.D., OLOF SCHWARTZKOPFF, V.M.D., Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Sanitary Science. Professor of Histology, Pathology, and Bacteriology. Instructor in Veterinary Anatomy. RICHARD O. BEARD, M.D., C. J. BELL, A.M., HENRY F. NACHTRIEB, B.S., CONWAY MCMILLAN, M.A., H. M. BRACKEN, M.D., Farrier and Instructor in practical Horse-shoeing. FIRST YEAR. SECOND YEAR. THIRD YEAR. Anatomy of domestic ani- Anatomy of domestic ani- Clinics: Equine, Bovine, mals, Part I. Histology and Practical General Pathology. Canine, and Porcine. Veterinary Surgery Operative Surgery. mals, Part II. Materia Medica. Theory Obstetrics. and Pathological Anatomy and logy. Veterinary Police-(Meat Physical Diagnosis, Urinaly History of sis. Medicine. Theoretical and Practical Veterinary Jurisprudence. Clinics. Any person who has completed the two years' course in the School of Agriculture may be admitted to the department of veterinary science; all other candidates will be required to prove by examination that they have an equivalent degree of culture. TERMS. The department will open October 1st, on the same day as the medical department of the University, and will continue in session six months. The work of the first year will be taken in a large degree with the medical department, at the Medical College. FEES. An entrance fee of ten dollars is charged to all students in the departpartment, and a fee of fifteen dollars is required to be paid for the lectures of the medical department the first year. DEGREES. The degree of doctor of veterinary medicine will be conferred on students who complete the full course of study. These names were omitted from their proper place in the list of students by mistake. THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. THE CORPS OF EXPERIMENTATION. NELSON WYLIE MCLAIN, LL. B., Director WILLET M. HAYS, B. S. A., Assistant in Agriculture. SAMUEL B. GREEN, B. S., OTTO LUGGER, PH. D., DAVID N. HARPER, PH. B., OLOF SCHWARTZKOPFF, V. M. D., DANIEL W. SPRAGUE, Accountant and Recorder. E. H. S. DARTT, Superintendent of Owatonna Forest Tree Station. HISTORICAL. The Legislature of Minnesota, at its session in 1885, passed the following act: "Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Regents, of the University of Minnesota, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, to establish at said University an Agricultural Experiment Station for the purpose of promoting agriculture in its various branches, by scientific investigations, and experiments; which station shall be under the control and supervision of the said Board of Regents." The Agricultural Experiment Station is the Experiment Farm of the College of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota. All the income from the sales of the lands granted to the several states by the Act of Congress of 1862, was specifically devoted to the purposes of instruction; and with this object in view, the Experimental Farm was purchased, and equipped for the purpose of giving practical instruction in all the departments of agriculture, and this work has been successfully carried on for three years past. For several years, the friends of advanced agriculture have engaged in a concerted movement to secure the establishment in the several states of "Agricultural Experiment Stations," where the chief object should be to |