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adaptability, uses of the several farm crops, and the best method of 

 producing' them are studied." 



In the second term of the junior year the student amy elect '' agri- 

 cultural experimentation." In this course one hour per day is given 

 to lectures and individual work on the part of the student on the 

 experiment station work and literature of this and other countries, 

 the organization and work of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, methods of experimentation, and the principles underlying 

 the same. Each student is required in closing up the term's work to 

 outline an experiment along some practical line of live stock, dairy- 

 ino-, soils, or crops, and to submit the outline to the class for criticism 

 and discussion. The experimentation is continued during the third 

 term two hours per day . For example, the student electing an experi- 



Flti. 2.— Tubes of galviini/.ud iron used to study L-tlwtiveiK'ss ol inulclu-s upon moisture losses. 



ment in agronomy, such as tests of forage crop mixtures, variety tests 

 of field crops, fertilizer experiments, etc.. is allotted the necessary 

 land, furnished team, implements, seed, etc.. and is required to carry 

 through his experiment and report upon it. 



''The object of this work is twofold. To the young man going- back 

 to the farm it gives a training which enables him at once to pass upon 

 the merits of any line of work described in station literature and to 

 appropriate that portion of it which may be of value to himself; to 

 the young man going into technical fields it gives a training which 

 should give strength and reliability to his work." 



In the senior year an elective in soil physics is offered. In this 

 course ten hours per week during the first term are devoted to lectures 

 and laboratory work, embracing a study of the physical properties and 



