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that in the other colleges of the State, but no less extensive and thorough 

 in its requirements. 



Instruction in the regular course must first be gi% r en mainly by perma- 

 nent professors of the College ; but in the special courses, it is intended 

 to bring in as lecturers gentlemen connected with other institutions, who 

 have made certain subjects connected with agriculture their special 

 study ; and also to bring in prominent agriculturists to lecture upon 

 those subjects that have been of special interest to them. The College 

 will thus bring before its students the best instruction that can be given 

 by scientific men and the practical agriculturists of the State. We need 

 all the aid we can command in such a new and almost untried enterprise 

 as this, and we know of no better way to secure it than this which we 

 have indicated. We see no better way than this to secure the practical 

 element which it is desirable to have prominent in the instruction of the 

 College ; and in no way can abstract science be more rapidly advanced 

 than where the suggestions which have come from study in the labora- 

 tory and cabinet can be tested at once by the observations and experi- 

 ments of practical men, who are thus enabled to turn to good account 

 the accumulated experience of a lifetime, which otherwise might be of 

 no advantage to others. The first work of the College in aid of agricul- 

 ture will be to put in practice the best results which have already been 

 worked out by our leading agriculturists, before it will be in a condition 

 to enter upon new experiments. 



The following is the course of study proposed for both the regular 

 and special departments. Such explanations are added as will show as 

 nearly as can now be done what the work of each year is to be. 



1. Special Course. 



Lectures commencing with the Spring Term, embracing in part the 

 following subjects ; — 



Structural Botany, Propagation and Cultivation of Plants, History of 

 Cultivated Plants, Pomology, Practical Agriculture, Agricultural Chem- 

 istry, Physical Geography and Surface Geology, Natural History of 

 Domestic Animals, Comparative Anatomy, Diseases of Animals, Milch 

 Cows and Dairy, Sheep Husbandry, Insects injurious to Vegetation, 

 Fuel — its origin and preparation, Rural Architecture. 



A portion of these lectures will be delivered by the president and 

 professors of the College. But among those who have promised their 

 aid in carrying on this course are Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, D. George 

 B. Loring, E. W. Bull, E3q., and C. L. Flint, secretary of the Board 

 of Agriculture. 



This course of lectures will be especially for the benefit of those 

 whose circumstances are such that they can devote but a short time in 



