AN ADDITIONAL YEAR.

An additional elective course of one year's work is offered to graduates and to others of equal attainments, such work to be chosen from the following subjects:

Agricultural Chemistry, Breeding and Dairying, Civil Government, Designs and Structures, English Composition; Entomology, Feeding, German and Mathematics

SPECIAL STUDENTS.

Students not able to complete the entire course, may, with the approval of the faculty, elect a special course in studies particularly devoted to agriculture.

CONNECTION WITH THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The school articulates with the college of Agriculture, in which the subjects are largely elective to meet the demands for special education.

EQUIPMENT..

The school possesses well equipped laboratories for instruction in Chemistry and Physics, plant houses for Botany and Horticulture, and a library. Provisions are made for a museum. Students have access to the special facilities of the Experiment Station. The agricultural and horticultural work on the University farm is conducted partially with reference to instruction in the school.

PHYSICS.

The work in Physics is as largely experimental as may be, constant use being made of the laboratory and its equipment to illustrate and enforce the teachings.

Matter, force, energy, motion, friction, work, heat, light, electricity and other subjects are considered in their application to soils, plants, cultivation, pumps, windmills, artesian wells, springs, siphons, fountains, water powers, pulleys, levers, centrifugals, steam engines and all farm machinery; to dwelling houses, school houses, also heating, lighting and ventilating the same; to thermometers, barometers, hot-beds, ice-houses, lightning rods and country roads.

CIVICS.

During the last term of the course, students receive instruction in this science and graduate with a good understanding of the origin, necessity, nature and various forms of government, and the machinery employed to carry on public works, establish

justice and provide for the common defense; of the organization and management of local institutions, the town, the village, the city and the county; the manner in which states are created and their affairs administered, the three departments, legislative, judicial and executive, and the functions of each; the interdependence of the state and its citizens, as well as the powers and obligations of each, by due attention to which the state may be strengthened and the condition of its citizens ameliorated.

The relations of the states to the general government; the constitution and the powers it confers, and the provisions for amendment are taught.

The more important principles of commercial law, including contracts, agency, partnership, corporations and commercial paper receive attention.

Instruction is also given in the U. S. method of surveying public lands.

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

In the pursuit of this branch the student becomes acquainted with the relation of our earth to the solar system and learns some of the more important of the general laws of nature and their operation upon the air, the water, and the land; upon plants, the lower animals, and upon man himself. He grasps the causes of the familiar natural phenomena which he observes around him, including movements and moisture of the air; springs, wells, streams and their work; structure and sculpture of the land; weather and climate, the production of soils; the various forms of life, its distribution and modification; the laws which govern it; the dependence of plants and animals upon their surroundings and upon each other, the influence they exert upon the development of the human race and the factors necessarily employed in bringing about desired changes.

The work done in this line is especially calculated to quicken and stir the mind up to close observation and earnest, independent investigation, which will constantly add new and valuable material to the stock already gained.

ARITHMETIC.

Students entering are required to understand arithmetic through fractions, both common and decimal. The course gives special attention to denominate numbers, in its various forms, interest discount, etc., evolution and mensuration. The aim is to secure both accuracy and facility in the most practical operations. ALGEBRA.

No algebra is required. Students intending to enter the college of Agriculture after graduating from the School of Agriculture, should complete elementary algebra through quadratics.

GEOMETRY.

The first three books of Wentworth are required. Students intending to enter the college of Agriculture should finish geometry. Special attention is given to principles of symmetry, clearness of statement, and accuracy of logical inference.

SHOPWORK AND DRAWING.

Instruction is given by means of text-books, lectures, and work in the shop and drawing room, in the care and use of tools, including setting and filing saws, filing bits, grinding plane-irons, chisels, and other tools; also in laying out work and framing buildings.

Methods of construction are illustrated by models and draw

ings.

Various articles for use about the farm are manufactured by the students.

Designs are made for dwellings, barns, out-buildings and machinery.

Estimates are made of the amount of material and the cost of construction.

VETERINARY SCIENCE.

The instruction in veterinary science embraces a two-years' course. In the first year instruction is given in anatomy and and physiology. The lectures are illustrated by means of charts, skeletons, manikins and, whenever practicable, by living animals.

In the second year the principles of pathology and therapeutics are taught, for which purpose sick animals are kept and treated in the veterinary hospital, giving the student a chance to examine and care for them and diagnose common diseases, under the direction of the instructor.

ZOOLOGY.

Chiefly Minnesota animals are considered; (1) their classification; (2) their habits and food; (3) their relation to the farmer.

ENTOMOLOGY.

The class in entomology receives instruction of a practical The course is divided as follows:

nature.

1. CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS, sufficient to enable the student to distinguish between useful and injurious insects and to apply remedies intelligently, as the remedies must be selected according to the kind of insects combatted.

2. INSECTICIDES AND THEIR APPLICATION. The most improved methods of using arsenical poisons, kerosene emulsions, pyrethrum, and other preparations are taught.

3. NATURAL REMEDIES, and nature's methods of preventing increase of any injurious insects receive due attention so as to enable the student to apply their teachings.

4. The relation of other animals to insects is also taught, so that the student may know both his friends and his foes.

5. Special attention is given to injurious and useful insects of Minnesota.

PENMANSHIP AND ACCOUNTS.

In this department the student is taught to write a plain hand with rapidity and ease.

The work in accounts is applied to the transactions which the student meets with in the various duties on the farm. He is so taught to keep his accounts that he may know at any time the profit or loss of any department of his business, and is thus enabled to act intelligently.

Attention is given to the different kinds of negotiable paper; the various forms of endorsements and their effect; business forms and correspondence. Everything is made so plain and practical that students can learn to keep accurately and neatly the accounts of any ordinary business.

HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY.

Instruction is given in growing the hardy fruits and vege tables for market and home use; raising garden seeds; managing hot-beds, greenhouses and window gardens; propagating and improving plants by selection, crossing and hybridization.

Under the general subject of forestry, are considered the effect of forests on climate; the comparative value of hardy deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs; the value and best methods of forming shelter belts and forest plantations; landscape gardening; the cutting, seasoning and preservation of wood; the characteristics of hardiness and the propagation of hardy ligneous plants.

BOTANY.

This study is taught with special reference to its bearing upon the every day problems that present themselves to the farmer and gardener. It is profusely illustrated with flowers and plants from the greenhouse and nursery. Some instruction is given in the use of the compound microscopes, and the students are thus enabled to study intelligently, in an elementary way, the tissues of plants, By this means they get a clear idea of the general principles of plant structure and vegetable physiology.

AGRICULTURE.

The instruction in Agriculture continues through the course and is distributed as follows:

FIRST YEAR-The selection, laying out and general manage

ment of farms; soils and soil formation; drainage; the general principles of cultivation; farm machinery and in connection with shop work and drawing, planning and construction of farm buildings.

SECOND YEAR-Dairy husbandry; milk testing and dairy chemistry; setting milk and hand separators; care of cream; churning, washing, salting, working, and packing butter.

ANIMAL INDUSTRY-Principles of breeding; the characteristics of the various breeds of our domestic animals with practice in judging and scoring them.

FIELD AGRICULTURE-Care of meadows; study and classification of the grasses, clovers and forage plants; cultivation of cereals and farm crops generally; grading wheat and stacking grain; weeds and the best methods of exterminating them.

THIRD YEAR-An extended study of the various kinds of soils, their geographical distribution, chemical composition and special treatment demanded by each, with a study of fertilizers; principles of feeding domestic animals; food stuffs; calculation of rations; and the application of the general principles established.

The school is equipped with the necessary machinery, tools and other appliances to give the instruction in all lines a distinctively practical trend. The Dairy Hall is supplied with milk testers, Cooley creamers, hand separators, churns and butterworkers, conveniently arranged.

In the University barn are silos and root cellars, for illustrating methods of construction and filling, a full line of agricultural implements, a herd of cattle, including thoroughbred Jerseys, Guernseys, Holsteins, Shorthorns and Polled Angus, of the highest type; a prize flock of Southdown sheep, and specimens of many breeds of swine. In addition to a constant, careful study of these animals, the observation of the student is extended by frequent visits to the herds and flocks of breeders of stock situated in or near the Twin Cities.

AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.

Instruction is given in the general principles of the science and is illustrated by the many chemical changes that take place on the farm. The work gradually branches, as soon as the preparation will allow, to the topics that are of material importance to the farmer, such as the composition of plants and food stuffs, and the study of the chemical changes that take place in plants from their germination to their final preparation as food products. The composition of milk and the chemical changes involved in its manufacture into butter, cheese and other products are studied. Practice is given in the analysis of milk and the