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Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [10 May, 1918. 



The majority of the students major in agronomy, animal husbandry, 

 dairying, or irrigation, as these are the courses Avhich they find most 

 useful in after life. 



In a general way, these courses may he said to prepare for three types 

 of agricultural activity: — 



(1) Commercial or productive agriculture. This may be by 



owning or renting land, or by employment as a superin- 

 tendent of a farm or ranch. 



(2) Professional or technical agriculture, in which a man may 



become an agricultural or soil chemist, a plant patho- 

 logist, a forester; or he may become an investigator in 

 any of the several lines of activity in which the college 

 prepares men. 



(3) Teachers of agriculture in high schools, and men who are 



to become farm advisers. 



North and South Dormitories, University Farm, Davis. 



THE DAVIS FAKM. 



The University Farm School, situated at Davis, some 70 miles from 

 Berkeley, is worked in conjunction with Berkeley, and is under control 

 of the Dean of the College of Agriculture. 



The heads of departments at the College of Agriculture are also the 

 heads of the corresponding division at Davis. 



In discussing the origin and scope of the University Farm School, 

 Dean Hunt said that the school was at first intended for a secondary 

 school, i.e., as a place where boys of high school age could receive instruc- 

 tion in agriculture. 



There were several reasons why this idea was abandoned : — ■ 



(1) It was considered that boys between fourteen and eighteen, 

 i.e., boys of high school, should sleep at home. It is an age when children 

 are in special need of their parents. 



A time comes when boys must break home ties. Experience indi- 

 cates that eighteen or nineteen is the correct age for this to occur. 



(2) The second reason for changing the age requirement at the 

 University Farm Sschool is a desire to uphold the discipline of the 

 high school, as well as to promote the teaching of agriculture in it. 



To enter the University Farm School, a student must be eighteen 

 years of age, unless he has graduated from a high school of recognisexi 

 standing. 



