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the Farm. The principal books of reference for classes in soils are Le 

 Conte's Elements of Geology, Warington's Chemical and Physical 

 Properties of Soils, Wahnschaffe's Scientific Examination of Soils, 

 Johnson's How Crops Feed, Storer's Agriculture, and Roberts's Fer- 

 tility of the Land; for classes in field crops, the publications of the 

 various experiment stations and of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, 



The agricultural library contains complete or nearly complete sets 

 of the Annals of Agriculture, Journal of the Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety of England, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society of Scotland, Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, Journal of 

 Ap-riculture, Journal fiir Landwirtschaft, Centralblatt fiir Agricultur- 

 chemie, Forschungen auf dem (jebietc der Agricultur-Physik, an 

 almost complete set of the pu))lications of the various State experi- 

 ment stations, and a fairly complete set of the publications of the 

 United States Depai-tment of Agriculture. There is also a fairly 

 complete collection of text-books and other books dealing with agri- 

 culture in a general or special way, besides tiles of the more important 

 agricultural newspapers. Altogether, in that section of the library 

 pertaining to agronomy there are upward of 1,500 volumes. 



OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. 



The four-year course in agriculture leading to the degree of Ijachelor 

 of science in agriculture is given in the College of Agriculture and 

 Domestic Science of the Ohio State University. This course is 

 designed not only to make specially trained agriculturists, but also 

 educated men. The course presupposes that a young man has had a 

 high school training or its equivalent, and that he has had the train- 

 ing in farm matters that necessarily comes to a young man who has 

 lived on a farm. It supplements this training, but does not displace 

 it. About one-third of the time of the student during the four years 

 is or may be devoted to language (English or foreign), history, and 

 economics; about one-third to pure science, and one-third to technical 

 or professional training. Electives in the senior year allow for some 

 variation in this regard. 



Applicants for admission to this course must be at least 16 years of 

 age and have graduated at a State normal school, or approved high or 

 preparatory school, or have passed examinations in the following su))- 

 jects: English granuiiar, composition and rhetoric, English classics; 

 arithmetic, algebra, plane geometry; descriptive and physical geogra- 

 phy, elementary botany, and physics; civil government or general 

 history; and Latin (grammar and four books of Ca?sar), or French 

 (grammar and simple reading and ti-anslating), or German (grammar 

 and reading, not less than 300 pages). 



The course in agronomy is given during the third or junior 3'ear of 



