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which tho student is prepared to take, provided only that two 3^earsof 

 foreign language nui.st l)e taken in the university if not offered for 

 admission. A thesis is also required for graduation for which from 5 

 to 10 credits will be allowed according- to the nature of the subject. 



The students in the college of agriculture are given courses in Eng- 

 lish or other languages in the college of literature and arts; courses in 

 chemistry, physics, geology, botany, zoology, mathematics, etc., in the 

 college of science; blacksmithing, carpentry, etc., in the college of 

 engineering, the work of the college of agriculture being devoted to 

 the subject of agronomy, animal husl)andry, dairy husbandry, horti- 

 culture, and veterinary science, or, in other words, to the subjects in 

 technical agriculture. 



In the department of agronomy 15 courses are offered (not including 

 the courses in farm mechanics), which are described briefly in the fol- 

 lowing excerpts from the college catalogue : 



The .semester, the days, and the ehiss period or periods (hirino; which each course 

 is given, and the nuni))er of credits jier SLnnester for which the course counts are 

 shown after each course, as follows: Tlie semester is indicated hy the Roman numer- 

 als I, II; the days, by the initial letters of the days of the week; the class period 

 or periods (of which thee are ninc> eacli day, numbered consecutively from 1 to 9), 

 by Arabic figures; and the amount of credit, by Ara))ic figures in parentheses. For 

 example, the abbreviations I; M., W., F.; 1; (3) are to be re'ad first semester, Mon- 

 day, Wednesday, and Friday, first period, three credits. 



1. BrdiiKtge and irrigation.— Locatmn of drains and irrigation conduits, leveling, 

 digging, laying tile and pipes, filling, and subsequent care; cost of construction and 

 efficiency; sewers for the disposal of waste water from farm buildings and the sew- 

 age from kitchen and toilet; farm water pipes, pipe and thread cutting. Class work, 

 laboratory and field practice. I; first half; daily; 6, 7; (2i). 



5. Farm crops — Quality and imprurenient. — Judging of corn (see Exhibit 3, p. 30) and 

 oats, wheat grading, methods of improving (juality, shrinkage of grain, care of stored 

 crops to prevent injury and loss. Class and laboratory work. I; first half; daily; 

 6,7 (or 3, 4); (2^). 



6. Farm crops — Germination and growtJi. — Vitality and germination of seeds, pres- 

 ervation of seeds, methods of seeding; conditions of plant growth; pecuharities of 

 the different agricultural plants in respect to structure, habits, and requirements for 

 successful growth; enemies to plant growth; weeds and weed seeds, their identifica- 

 tion and methods of destrucrtion ; fungus diseases, such as smut of oats and wheat, 

 and blight, scab, and rot of potatoes, methods of prevention; insects injurious to 

 farm crops and how to combat them. Class room, laboratory, and field work. II; 

 first half ; daily; 6, 7; (^J). 



7. Special crops. — A special study of farm crops taken up under an agricultural 

 outline — grain crops, root crops, forage crops, sugar and fiber crops — their history 

 and distribution over the earth, methods of culture, cost of production, consumption 

 of products, and residues or by-products. Class work, supplemented by practical field 

 work and a study of the results of previous experiments, such as detasseling corn, 

 injury to roots of corn by cultivation, selection and breeding of corn and other crops, 

 with special reference to practices which apply directly to Illinois conditions. 

 Students will have an excellent opportunity to study the work of the Agricultural 

 experiment station. II; daily; 1, 2; (5). Required: Agronomy 2, 5, 6. 



8. Field experiments. — Special work by the students conducted in the field. This 

 work consists in testing A-arieties of corn, oats, wheat, potatoes, and other farm crops; 



