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Rivers, river-valleys, history of a river-valley. Springs and wells. 

 Description and mode of formation of the principal land forms. 

 Rocks of the crust. Sedimentary. Igneous. Metamorphic ; their 

 description, formation and relation to soils. 



Geological succession of the stratified rocks of Victoria. 

 Disturbance of strata. Weathering. 

 The physical structure of Victoria and the continents. 

 Study of the locality. Field excursions. 



POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL. 



A knowledge of the important political divisions of the world ; their 

 economic products and their area relative to Victoria. 



Chief trade and cable routes from Australia. 



Australian imports and exports with their places of origin and con- 

 sumption. 



Mapping ; Australasian States ; Australia. 



Farm Practice. 

 The farm will be worked and cultivated in such a way as to illustrate 

 the practical application of the principles laid down in each section of 

 the syllabus. The farm will be also used bv the Department of Agricul- 

 ture as a centre of experimental work. Every effort will be made to have 

 the interest of the progressive farmers of the district focussed upon the 

 work of the farm. 



English. 



Grammar. Accidence. Analysis. 



Composition. Correspondence. Essays, reports, abstracts. 



Bookkeeping. Double entry. Farm accounts. Farm records. Re- 

 cords of farm experiments. 



Literature. Study of prose and poetry as for Junior Commercial 

 Examination. 



Directed reading of bulletins and magazine articles relating to agri- 

 culture. 



Mathematics, 

 arithmetic. — 



Invoices. Fractions, decimal and vulgar; percentages; insurances; 

 profit and loss ; interest ; stocks ; averages ; square root ; approximations. 



mensuration . — 



Plane rectilineal figures, circle, solid figures; excavations; earthworks; 

 haystacks ; silos ; water flumes. 

 measurements. — 



Timber, logs and planks ; measurements by chain and compass of 

 straight lines ; angles ; areas. 



Solution of triangles. 



Plane-table surveying. 

 algebra. — 



Elements of algebra. Factors^ fractions, simple equations, quadratic 

 equations, problems. 



Drau'ing. 

 first year. 



Model drawing and drawing from objects and from nature, on black- 

 boards and on paper. Practical geometry, plain and solid, and its ap- 

 plication in drawing to scale, simple plans, elevations and sections. 



