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12. Physics, as applied to agriculture. 



13. Chemistry, as applied to the analysis of soils, manures, <Scc. 



14. Certain general notions of mineralogy and geology. 



15. Domestic medicine, applied to the uses of husbandmen. 



The practical part of the education, on the other hand, is con- 

 ducted on the following system : — The pupils are intrusted in 

 succession with all the different services of the farm. Some, for 

 instance, under the direction of the professor of the veterinary 

 art, perform the operations required by the casualties which are 

 continually occurring in a numerous stock of cattle. Two young 

 men are appointed as general inspectors, under the orders of the 

 superintendent. Four are charged with the management of the 

 oxen ; two with that of the horses ; two with the pigs : two with 

 the sheep ; two with the poultry ; four with the silkworms : the 

 duty of these respectively being, to note the accidents or cases of 

 disease that occur amongst the stock committed to their care ; to 

 see that they are properly fed ; and to mark any variations in 

 their condition which may have been occasioned by differences in 

 diet, 6cc. 



Two pupils also are attached to the service of the garden ; two 

 to the woods and plantations ; two to the inspection of the repairs 

 taking place on the premises ; two to the fabrication of starch, 

 cheese, and other things made on the farm ; two to the pharma- 

 ceutical department ; two to the book-keeping and accounts. 



In these cases it is usual to appoint a pupil of two years' stand- 

 ing in conj unction with one newly entered ; and at the end of 

 each week all are expected to make a report, in the presence 

 of their comrades, of whatever had been done during the course 

 of it in the departments to which they are severally attached. At 

 the same time the professor, who presides over the practical part 

 of their education, takes occasion to comment upon the proceed- 

 ings, and to impart such information as flows naturally from the 

 facts brought before him. He, moreover, takes the pupils to 

 the spots where the various operations of the field are proceeding, 

 in order to point out the fittest manner of executing them. It is 

 his duty also to deliver a series of lectures on these different pro- 

 cesses, at periods corresponding to those at which they are in 

 actual progress. Nor is this the only kind of practical instruc- 

 tion here imparted ; for each professor in his respective depart- 

 ment is expected to give to his course, as much as ])ossible, a 

 practical turn : the professor of botany, for example, by means of 

 herborizations ; the professor of chemistry, by geological excur- 

 sions ; the professor of mathematics, by executing, on the plan he 

 had pointed out, the survey and measurement of certain portions 

 of land. 



After being for two years thus trained in the theory as well as 



