1246 AGRlCUl^TLiKAI. EDUCATION 



HecUircs Ares Centiarcs 



Park land 26 93 13 



Glass houses and winter gardens — 4y 33 



P^xperlmental fields — 35 78 



Zoological garden and Veterinary hospital 2 31 95 



I'leasure garden i 24 58 



Kitchen and Fruit garden 2 34 90 



Fruit tree nurseries — 26 — 



Orchard i 77 20 



Forest and ornamental trees 5 6 65 



Vineyard 20 97 59 



Practical schools and plots annexed 2 68 41 



Stables and sheds — 65 82 



Groves, thickets, etc 2 59 4 



Annual forage plants 8 — — 



Temporary grassland 22 — — 



Grain crops 6 — — 



Weeded crops 3 6 — 



Industrial plants 4 — — 



Gardens for I,ive-stock shows 2 31 50 



Botanical gardens 2 70 27 



Astronomical observatory i 69 i 



The object of the Institute is to train up : farmer landowners or man- 

 agers possessing the necessary scientific knowledge for the best working of 

 the soil : technical managers for agricultural industries ; directors for the 

 public departments connected with agriculture ; professors and assistants 

 for agricultural education at the Institute itself and in the practical schools. 



Students are admitted after a competition from which only bachelors 

 of science are exempted. Candidates must be seventeen 5'ears old at least. 



The period of study is four years, after which those students who have 

 maintained a sufficient average standard receive the diploma of Agri- 

 cultural Engineer. 



The school year begins in March and ends in December. 



The Institute, in addition to regular students, admits free students 

 desirous of following a special course in one subject ; the duration of their 

 stay in the Institute is limited to two 3^ears. 



Education is entirel}^ free, as is indeed the case in all educational 

 establishments in Chile. 



It comprises the following courses : 



1. (General agriculture: («) agricultural climatologj- ; {b) study of soils, manuring and 

 manures ; (c) plant reproduction. 



2. Special agriculture : («) agricultural work ; (b) cultivation of food plants, industrial 

 plants and grassland^; . 



3. Arboriculture for forest, fruit and ornamental trees, and liorticuUure. 



4. Vine-growing and wine-making. 



5. plant physiology and micrography. 



6. Plant pathology and agricultural entomology. 



7. Sylviculture. 



8. Applied organic chemistry. 



9. Agricultural chemistrj'. 



10. Analytic chemistry (quantitative). 



