AGRICULTURE IN NEGKU SCHOOLS. 723 



ALABAMA. 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama for Negroes, X<>nii<il. 



The Agricultural uiid jNIochunlcul College oilers a preparatory course 

 of three years, a normal course extending over four years, an English 

 priniur}" course of three years, the pupils in Avhich constitute a pi-actice 

 school for normal students, and three collegiate courses of four years 

 each, viz: The agJMcultural course leading to th(^ degree of bachelor of 

 agricultural science; the mechanical course leading to the degree of 

 bachelor of mechanical science, and the scientific course leading to the 

 decree of bachelor of science. There are also industrial courses in 

 carpentry, iron making, shoe making, broom making, chair bottoming, 

 nurse training, sewing, millinerv, cooking, laundering, printing, etc. 



Candidates for admission to the college and normal courses must 

 present satisfactory evidence of good moral character and nuist be not 

 less than 15 years of age. Younger p(M"sons of good moral character 

 are admitted to the preparatory course and a limited number of chil- 

 dren of an}' age into the English primary course. 



Agriculture and mechanics are taught throughout the first two years 

 of the normal course. The agricultural course includes solid geometry, 

 five hours per week for one term; structural, physiological, and Held 

 botany, daily throughout the freshman year; agricultural chemistr}', 

 daily throughout two terms of the freshman year; (pialitative analysis, 

 throughout one term; comparative physiology, one term in the sopho- 

 more year; veterinary hygiene, one term in the sopliomore year; 

 geology, two terms in the junior year; mineralogy, entomology, and 

 human anatomy, one term each in the junior year; general physics and 

 zoology, two terms each in the junior ^ear; political economy, two terms 

 in the senior year; climatology, moral science, and meteorology, one 

 term each in the senior 3'ear, besides the agricultural subjects, wdiich are 

 as follows: Ilistorj' of agriculture, drainage and irrigation, fertilizers, 

 and stock breeding, one term each in the sophomore year; truck 

 farming and horticulture, one term each in the junior year; forage 

 plants, foicstry, nniew of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 l)ulletins. spraying of ])lants and agric-ultuial engineering, one term 

 each in the senior year. •* Experimental work"" occurs dail}' through- 

 out the course. 



'J^hc industrial course in agriculture extends over three years and is 

 descrilx'd in the catalogue of the institution as f(jllows: 



FIR.ST YEAR — KIKST TKUM. 



Ijectures on soils, jilants, iloniestic animals, aiul iiianaL'cniciit of live stock and 

 dairy. Goff's rrinciplcs <if I'laiif rnltiire. 



SKCOXI) TKKM. 



Disea.«i'H el" live stuck ami iluiiieatic! uniiiials; juaitical garilciiing and iiianagcnient 

 of live stock and dairy. 



