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The present of Agriculture ; giving a short sketch of tlic methods practiced 

 in many countries and the couii)arative results. 



Ilistory of breeds of cattle : the characteristics of each ; points of different 

 ])reeds ; judging cattle by points. 



Principles of Drainage ; comi)arison of tile drains with various kinds of cov- 

 ered drains; with open drains; laying out and ])utting down tile drains and 

 sewers ; drainage and sewerage of buildings. 



Senior Coiwse. 



Principles of stock breeding ; how applied in different breeds ; results reached ; 

 principles of farm economy considered with special regard to mixed husbandry 

 and rotations of crops ; planning and construction of farm buildings with refer- 

 ence to some rotation of crops or special system of husbandry ; also with refer- 

 ence to the kind and the number of live stock to be kept upon the farm. 



Each student is required to select au ideal farm, give size, soil, and other 

 description of interest or importance; assume to have a certain amount in 

 i)low land ; plan a rotation of crops ; decide on the greatest amount of stock to 

 be kept; then draft a plan for barns, stables, etc.: for the proper care of the 

 crops and the shelter of the stock, the care of implements, etc. 



AGllICULTURAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. 



The Farm Department has the beginning of a museum, and some few illus- 

 trative pictures and charts. It is in need of a much better collection, — of 

 more barns, implements, and stock. 



The Agricultural Library is mostly in the general library. The exceptions 

 are the series of herd books which are kept in the farm office, but which are 

 inventoried with the library. We have the Am. 8hort-horn Herd Book, 

 Ayrshire Herd Book and Record, Am. Devon Herd Book, Am. Jersey Cattle 

 Club Register, Hereford Herd Book (English), and Coates English Short- 

 horn Herd Book, and one volume of the Poled Galloway Herd Book, and first 

 volume of the Guernsey Register. 



The Library contains most of the recent American and English publications 

 on Agriculture, and on stock breeding. There comes regularly to the Reading 

 Room eighteen agricultural journals published on tins side the Atlantic, and 

 two weekly agricultural journals from London. \\'e have a complete set of 

 the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England to the present time 

 (39 vols.), and receive the volumes regularly as they are issued. We have the 

 Highland Agricultural Society publications complete in 58 volumes to the 

 present year ; the Bussey Institute Bulletins, and nearly complete sets of the 

 Agricultural Reports of the United States, of Maine, Massachusetts, Connecti- 

 cut, New York, Ohio, Iowa, and less complete sets of the reports of various 

 other States and Agricultural Societies. 



ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY AND GEOLOGY. 



I come next to the department of Zoology and Entomology. 



All who have planned out courses of instruction for an agricultural school, 

 have enlarged on the necessity of instruction in physiology and entomology. 

 Instruction in stock-breeding and the races of domestic animals is not, in our 

 scheme, placed in the zoological, but in the agricultural department. 



During the year 1859, Dr. Henry Goodby occupied the chair of Animal 

 Physiology, — from 1861 to 18G5 Dr. Manly Miles was professor of Physiology 



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