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Until the end of the lirst term, junior year, all four-year agricultural 

 students pursue exactly the same studies, but for the remaining- live 

 terms they specialize in their technical work, electing either agricul- 

 ture, including- dairying", stock-feeding, soil work, and farm crops, or 

 horticulture, including vegetable culture, pomology, and floriculture. 



Instruction in agronomy is given b}' the professor of agronomy and 

 one assistant in the second and third terms of the freshman year, the 

 first and second terms of the sophomore j^ear, the second and third 

 terms of the junior year, and the tirst, second, and third terms of the 

 senior year, and is supplemented by instruction in botan}-, bacteriology^ 

 and chemistry. 



The courses in l)otany (aside from those liearing on forestry) for 

 ao-ricultural students include in the freshman vear sixtv-one hours of 

 structural botany (gross anatomy and morphology of fruits and seeds) 

 and thirty-three hours of systematic botany: in the sophomore year 

 ninety-six hours of plant histology (use of compound microscope, 

 preparation of slides, use of reagents, study of plant anatomy, (^tc.) 

 and thirty-three hours of ecology; one hundred and twenty-six hours 

 of fungi of economic importance during the first term of the junior 

 year; and fortN^-eight hours devoted to a study of grasses and weeds 

 during the second term of the junior year. A senior elective in plant 

 physiology has been announced. Instruction in 1)ot;uiy is given in the 

 botanical laboratory, a ])uilding 55 by 45 feet, two stories with attic 

 and basement. The basement includes a fire-proof room containing 

 the herl)arium of al)out T5,(H)0 specimens, a lavatory, and large work- 

 room for the preparation and storing of specimens and ])oxes; the lirst 

 floorcontains a dark room, two well-lighted rooms very fairly ecjuipped 

 for histological and physiological studies, and an office and laboratory 

 for the professor in charge; the second floor contains a large room for 

 beginners in botan\' and for lectures, and a studv and la])oratoiv for 

 the assistants; the garret has recently been fitted for use as ncHM'ssity 

 may require. 



Bacteriology is taught by the laboratory method, supplemented by 

 such lectures as are necessary to direct the work. .Vfter one prelimi- 

 nary lecture course and two laborator}^ courses (flrst, morphological 

 and cultural bacteriology, and second, phj'siological bacteriology), the 

 student may elect during the winter term of the senior year ;i la])o- 

 ratory course in bacteriology (ten hours per week) devoted to the 

 biological consideration of the soil. This work is given in a new and 

 well-equipped bacteriological laboratory, which has just l)een completed 

 at a cost (exclusive of equipnu^nt) of $25^000. 



Instruction in chemistry includes general eleuKMitary chemistry 

 (ninet3'-eight hours during the fii'st term of the freshman 3'ear), quali- 

 tative analvsis (one hundred and twentv hours during the second term 

 of the freshman year), organic chemistry (ninety-eight hours during 



