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tuither instruction in in-aotical agricultural 8i'ience, in the sciences related tOragri- 

 cultnre, and in literature, and the arts. Since all students who enter this course 

 have had the technical, scientific, and general work offered in the si'hool of agricul- 

 ture, the college course includes only advanced work of a collegiate grade. This 

 course designs to efficiently prepare students for either farm life or for the work of 

 the agricultural specialist. It emphasizes the importance <>f plant and animal pro- 

 duction and the upbuilding of rural homes an<l farm life, while the biological and 

 physical sciences are made prominent. 



Following the four years of preparation in practical agricultural lines in the school 

 of agriculture, the freshman and sophomore years are devoted largely to the study of 

 the sciences. The technical subjects relating to agriculture and household economics 

 are mainly offered as electives in the junior and senicjr years, when the freedom for 

 election enables the student to choose as a specialty a major science or an agricultural 

 or a household subject around which to group related elective sul)jects. The elective 

 courses during the last two years give an opportunity for further culture in literary 

 and philosophical lines and for becoming more proficient in scientific research work 

 in some of the many problems pressing for solution in the development of the State 

 and national agricultural experiment stations. The instruction in the various tech- 

 nical agricultural and household divisions in the college course is for the most part a 

 continuation of the work in these subjects in the school of agriculture, each subject 

 being treated from a more technical standpoint. Students who have first graduated 

 from the agricultural school are ready in their junior and senior years to elect spe- 

 cialties for study and research work along lines in which they hope to work after 

 graduation. 



The subjects in the school of ao-riculture which more especially pre- 

 pare for the collegiate work hi agronoiii}^ are agricultural chemistry, 

 agricultural ))otany, agricultural physics, and the sul)jects included 

 under the title of agriculture. 



Agricidtural cliemistry is divided into dairy chemistry; chemistry 

 of foods, soils, and fertilizers, and domestic chemistry. Under the title 

 of soils and fertilizers the student receives instruction in the composi- 

 tion of soils and their properties, the sources of plant food, the kinds 

 and amounts of foods required by crops and the best ways of supplying 

 these demands, the various forms in which plant food exists in the 

 soil, farm manures, their uses and action upon the soil, the income 

 and outgo of fertility from the farm, soil exhaustion and soil improve- 

 ment, the rotation of crops, as based upon the chemistry of soils and 

 the principles governing the conservation of the fertility of the soil. 

 Laboratory practice forms an important feature of all the work in 

 ao-ricultural chemistry. 



Agricultural botany is taught with special reference to its bearing 

 upon the everyday problems that present themselves to the farmer 

 and the oardener. By means of flowers and plants from the green- 

 house and nursery, studied under the simple and the compound micro- 

 scope, students are given a clear idea of the general principles of plant 

 structure and vegetable physiology. 



In agricultural physics the general principles of physics are taught, 

 special stress l)eing laid upon those principles which to the greatest 

 extent enter into the Imsiness of the farmer. About half of the time 



