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The junior course consisted of twenty lectures on manures 

 and crop rotations, and a course of lectures (twenty-six 

 exercises) was also given to the senior class on stock 

 breeding. 



In addition to the regular class work, a number of illus- 

 trated lectures have been given to the students generally, 

 and to the members of the Natural History Society, on 

 topics relating to agriculture not embraced in the regular 

 course. 



Lectures to farmers' clubs have likewise been given in 

 different parts of the State. 



A class-room is very much needed for the use of this 

 department, and it should have connected with it a room for 

 apparatus and for preparing experiments to illustrate the 

 course, and an agricultural museum. 



The advantages of object teaching in the course of instruc- 

 tion in agriculture are largely lost from want of a class- 

 room, where charts, models and selected specimens can be 

 displayed to illustrate the subjects under discussion. 



My large collection of stereopticon views of animal 

 portraits and other objects, with a lantern for their exhibi- 

 tion, are of but little use in teaching, from the want of a 

 suitable room in which they can be exhibited. 



It is impossible to present to the student the detailed 

 applications of the wide range of sciences relating to agricul- 

 ture, in a form that will enable him to fully appreciate them, 

 without the best possible facilities for illustrating the facts 

 presented from so many sources. 



MANLY MILES, 



Professor of Agriculture. 



