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The agricuiluial course is here ^iveii. Tlie study o\' aiieieiil and luixl- 

 era languages hi o[)tioua!. J)eehiiuation aud composition exercises cou- 

 tinue throughout the course. 



Higher course. — First year. — General agriculture, higher algebra, 

 book-keeping, elementary physics, elementary botany, art of composi- 

 tion, analytical botany, outlines of chemistry. Second year. — Plant-cul- 

 ture, geometry, (completetl,) general chemistry, economic botany, (by 

 lectures,) soils, horticulture, trigonometry, surveying. Third year. — 

 Farm-machinery, rural laws, surveying, (with field practice,) political 

 economy, English literature, agricultnral chemistry, human anatomy 

 and physiology, blow-pipe analysis, domestic animals, fertilizers, ele- 

 ments of zoology, industrial drawing, physics, evidences of Christianity, 

 Constitution of the United States and of Pennsylvania, agricultural 

 chemistry, (lectures,) qualitative analysis. Fourth year. — Rural archi- 

 tecture, veterinary science, original essays and discussions on agricul- 

 tural subjects, moral philosophy, logic, physics, (with laboratory prac- 

 tice,) principles of geology, civil engineering, economic zoology, landscape 

 gardening, rural economy, mental philosophy, rhetoric, economic geol- 

 ogy, astronomy, mineralogy, and crystallography, (lectures.) 



The preparatory year embraces the studies usually prescribed by 

 higher institutions for such a course. 



The number of students in attendance during the present year is loO, 

 being an increase of 63 over the last year. 



The following table exhibits the programme of experiments adopted 

 on the "experimental farms" of this college, made out for live years, but 

 the system may be continued for any length of time. Every plot con- 

 tains exactly one-eighth of an acre. A space of 2-1 inches is left between 

 the plots to mark the divisions. The space for roads and turns around 

 the several blocks of plots is 12 feet. The plots severally are laid off in 

 the form, of a parallelogram, 20 rods long by 1 rod wide. They are cul- 

 tivated with the ordinary farm implements — plows, harrows, drills, mow- 

 ers, iS:c. Each plot must be farmed in exact accordance with the im- 

 press made upon it in the programme. When nothing is said of the im- 

 plements or of the quantity of seed to be used, the ordinary farm imple- 

 ments in approved use, and the usual quantities of seed, are implied. In 

 seeds, lime, «S:c., the quantity expressed is that ai)plicable to the acre, 

 except in potatoes, when the quantity expressed applies alike to the di- 

 visions and to the relative quantities of the seed by weight or measure, 

 and in corn when the numbers are applied to the stalks in hills three 

 feet apart, and in rows one foot apart. The application of fertilizers, 

 where no specification is made to test their relative quantities, is left to 

 the superintendents of the farms respectively, under the specific and un- 

 qualified injunction that, in the application, special regard shall be had 

 to the crops wliich by the programme mark diversities, and come in com- 

 petition with each other. The utmost care, in such cases, must be ob- 

 served in applying to all the plots thus placed in competition, the same 

 kind, the same quality, and the same quantity of manure. 



