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during the third or junior year. The latter course embraces, beside* 

 the application of chemistry to agriculture, the principles of the arts 

 directly relating to domestic operations; and would be equally useful 

 to students of the softer sex, whose influence on their male competitors 

 is everywhere acknowledged to be extremely desirable. We shall 

 always be glad to see them. 



Mineralogy and Geology the sciences treating of the immediate in 

 gredients and mode of formation of soils, can nowise be omitted ; they 

 are taught during the third year. So also is Meteorology, or &quot;What 

 we Know about the Weather.&quot; 



The fourth year is, of course, devoted to the higher branches and 

 finishing touches of the several subjects. Of non-agricultural subjects, 

 we have here, besides the English Literature course, that of Etidcs or 

 Moral Science, which is as necessary to the farmer as to any other pro 

 fession ; and that of Political Economy and Governmental Science, whose 

 importance is manifest. 



Throughout the four years, we have daily lectures in General and 

 Special Agriculture ; embracing, successively, a General Compend (based 

 on Allen s Farm Book); then the details of Tillage, Subsoiling, Drain 

 age, Preparation of Land, Seeding, Cultivation, Harvesting, Storing of 

 Crops, in general. Details of the Culture of the Several Crops ; Horticul 

 ture, Truck Farming, Stock and Dairy Farming. Finally, during the 

 last or senior year, Rural Engineering and Architecture, Landscape 

 Gardening, Rural Economy, the General Policy of Culture, and a Sum 

 mary of the Course. Last, but not least, the Special Geology and Agri 

 culture of tlie State, illustrated by the extensive collections of the Geo 

 logical and Agricultural Survey, will show in detail, the application of 

 the facts and principles studied before, in each particular portion of 

 the State. 



When you consider that, besides all this, the student will almost 

 daily witness the actual performance of farm operations, and take part 

 in them to the extent presently to be explained : I do not see how a 

 tendency to wean him from agricultural pursuits, can possibly be at 

 tributed to our course. We shall put the pursuit of agriculture before 

 him in all its manifold bearings aud connections, as a profession of a 

 high order, involving no little intellectual capacity and culture, and 

 dignified far above many of those that are now so often resorted to by 

 our youth. 



PRACTICAL EXERCISES, AND FARM LABOR. 



Now as regards the practical exercises in agricultural operations, 

 there has been a great diversity of opinion as to the extent to which 



