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Diseases of Farm Animals. — The common ailments of domestic 

 animals, and their remedies. Lectm'es, 1 hour a week. Professor 



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Farm' Mechanics and]' Machinery. — Dynamometer and other tests 

 of wagons and other farm implements ; farm vehicles and machinery ; 

 road -building. Lectures and practice, 1 hour a week, Mr. Gilmore. 



B. Winter Dairy-Course. 



Instruction in this course is partly by lectures and recitations, 

 but largely by actual practice in the different kinds of dairy work. 

 The class assembles daily, except Sunday, at 8 a. m., and class room 

 work continues two hours. The students are then assigned by 

 sections or squads to different kinds of practice for most of the balance 

 of the day. These assignments are made so that in the course of 

 the term each student will have his fair proportion of work in each 

 department. 



Lectures are given in one-hour periods. Frequently they are 

 replaced by examinations and often a part of the hour is occupied by 

 informal discussion of previous lectures or topics previously assigned 

 for study. The subjects of the different lecture-coiu-ses and the 

 approximate number of hours given to each are as follows: 



Milk and its Products. — This course is given from 8 to 9 a. m. 

 daily from Monday to Friday throughout the term. It includes a 

 full discussion of the secretion or formation of milk, its nature and 

 composition, its care and preservation, different dairy products, 

 conditions affecting their quality, methods of marketing, the business 

 side of dairying, dairy mechanics, the construction of dairy buildings 

 and the legal requirements applying to dairy products. Special 

 attention is given to dairy bacteriology and dairy sanitation. The 

 lectures are supplemented by references to dairy literature, — current 

 periodicals, experiment station publications and books. Three 

 hours a week. Professor Pearson and Mr. Truman. 



Animal Husbandry. — Three lectures per week throughout the 

 term. This subject includes the care and management of dairy 

 cattle and the compounding and feeding of the most economical 

 rations. Three hours a week. Professor Wing. 



Dairy Chemistry. — The elementary principles of chemistry are 

 explained with a view to enable the student to better understand 

 the composition of dairy products and the chemical changes connected 

 with and influencing certain dairy operations. Three hours per 

 week, the first three weeks of the term. Mr. Troy. 



