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cheese-making, the running of cream separators, and the pasteuriza- 

 tion of milk. Nothing is 1 icking that is necessary to give the broad- 

 est and most thorough training in every branch of the dai.y business 

 on a large scale suited to factory and creamery men, and on a small 

 scale adapted to the circumstances of those who may have to handle 

 milk or cream and make butter on the farm. 



Apiculture. 



An experienced apiculturist lectures on bee-keeping throughout 

 the Fall Term, illustrating his lectures by appliances in the class-room 

 and by the use of colonies of bees brought here for the purpose. 



Horticultural Department. 



In this department there is a large laboratory, with a complete set 

 of green-houses, a six- acre kitchen garden,a vinery, a plot of small 

 iruits, a thirty-acre lawn, an arboretum, a large variety of fruit and 

 ornamental trees —everything necessary for first-class work in Botany 

 and Horticulture. 



Library and Reading Room. 



The Library contains over 12,000 volumes on the difPerent subjects 

 embraced in the course of study ; also a good selection of history, 

 poetry, biography, and travels, and some fiction by a few of the best 

 authors. The card catalogue system is used in the library, giving 

 satisfactory reference, not only to authors and subjects, but also to 

 articles indexed from the reports of the leading agricultural and scien- 

 tific societies of the old world. A cardindexed catalogue of all the re- 

 ports and bulletins of the TT. S. agricultural experiment stations is also 

 placed in the Library. 



The College Reading Rooms are furnished with from 60 to 70 of the 

 leading papers and periodicals on agriculture, dairying, horticulture, 

 poultry, apiculture, and scientific subjects ; and a number of maga- 

 zines provided by the Literary Society are also kept on file. 



Advantages of the Course. 



From the outlines given above, it is clear that the course of study 

 and apprenticeship is especially adapted to the wants of young men 

 who intend to be farmers. It includes what they require and nothing 

 more. The lectures in the class-room, the work in the outside depart- 

 ments and the laboratories of the institution, the experimental work, 

 the debates in the College Literary Society, the surroundings, the at- 

 mosphere of the College life, all tend to awaken, stimulate, develop, 

 and brighten the students ; to teach them the use of their eyes and 

 hands, give them a taste for reading, increase their respect for farmers 

 and farnning, and make them more intelligent workers and better 

 citizens. 



