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a. Agricultural implements and machines. 



&. Special doctrine in regard to cereals and similar products. 

 In addition to whicli in the concluding session special lectures 

 are given, on the growth and production of hops and of tobacco ; 

 on lime-making ; on the culture of fruit-trees ; and on the culture 

 of culinary vegetables. 



c. General doctrine in regard to the rearing of animals, with 

 application of the same to the breeding of sheep and preparation 

 of wool ; and in the last session special instruction is given in 

 regard to the breeding of horses, of oxen, and of small cattle, on 

 silk-culture, and on the keeping of bees. 



C. Eural economy. 



a. Treatment and disposal of economical products. 



1). Valuations, estimates, and exercises in drawing out schemes 



of operations. 

 c. Bookkeeping. 



D. Technology of rural economy. 



In connection with these series of lectures are given appropriate 

 illustrations in the collections of models, of implements and of 

 machines, in the Museums of Wood and of Soils, in the experimental 

 fields, in the nurseries and the arboretum, and different gardens, in 

 the cattle-folds and in the workshops of the institution, together with 

 practical exercises in making valuations, estimates, and schemes of 

 exploitation, excursions, &c., &c. 



II. Forest Economy. 



A. Encyclopedic view of forest economy, with a special reference 

 to the study by students of rural economy of allied subjects in this 

 department. 



B. History and literature of forest economy. 



C. Eorest products. 



a. Forest botany. 

 h. Sylviculture. 



c. Forest protection. 



d. Technical properties of timber. 



e. Uses of forests, and forest technology. 



D. Forest economy. 



a. Mensuration of trees and forests. 

 h. Partition of forests for exploitation. 



c. Valuation of forests. 



d. Practical management of forests. 



E. Administration of Crown forests. A special introductory lecture 

 on the subject and exposition of the forest laws of the kingdom of 

 Wurtemburg. 



F. Encyclopeedic view of rural economy for the instruction of 



