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the tirst term of the sophomore year), and agricultural chemistr3'(sixt3^ 

 hours (hiring- the second term of the sophomore year and sixty hours, 

 elective, daring the second term of the senior year). The course in 

 agricultural chemistry includes the history of agricultural chemistry; 

 the composition of plants, sources of the organic constituents of plants, 

 how to increase their quantity and availability; the soil and the influ- 

 ence of ph3^sical agencies on its chemical condition; the nature and. 

 action of the ash elements in plant growth; manures and manuring; 

 intensi\e and extensive agriculture, and conservation of fertility; the 

 chemistry of fodders and stock feeding, of ripening of fruits and 

 grains. The aim in these lectures is to state and solve the chemical 

 prol)lems of the farm. The chemical laboratory building contains a 

 lecture room for 150 students, analytical rooms fitted with evaporating 

 hoods and tables for 68 students, the professor's private laboratory and 

 study, and a suite of rooms for students in metallurgy and quantitative 

 chemical analysis, and is well equipped with chemical apparatus and 

 stores. 



The courses in agrononi}' are introduced by a course of twenty 

 lectures on the formation, character, and distribution of soils; the 

 agencies still at work in soil formation and soil destruction; and the 

 care required to be exercised to preserve the soils of agricultural 

 districts. These lectures are given during the last four weeks of the 

 second term of the freshman 3'ear and are illustrated b}- samples of 

 soil, rock, etc., and by the stereopticon, and are supplemented by 

 lal)oratory work and oral quizzes. During the third term of the 

 freshman year, ten hours per week are spent in studying soils as 

 regards their characteristics, functions, needs, and treatment in agri- 

 culture; drainage, its theory and practice; reasons for the different 

 operations of the farm and the tools used; the planning of farm work, 

 etc. Throuo-hout this work the lantern is used to illustrate the talks 

 and the student is taken to the tool room and to the field for observa- 

 tion. It is the aim to have quizzes at least as often as once per week. 



Two hours daily of the first term of the sophomore year are devoted 

 to lectures and laboratory work in agricultural physics, including 

 (besides rural engineering and farm mechanics) laboratory work in 

 the mechanical analysis of soils, the determination of moisture in 

 soils, green and dry fodders, roots and grains, and experiments in 

 moisture and air movements in soils. 



The subject of farm crops is given in lectures five hours per week 

 during the second term of the sophomore 3'ear. In this course, "good 

 seed and conditions affecting its vitality, general requirements for 

 successful plant growth, conditions governing the time and depth of 

 planting, rate of seeding, etc., and the principles of plant improve- 

 ment, are discussed. The history, distribution, general characteristics, 



