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2. Mechanical agriculture, treating of 



(a) Agricultural implements. 



(b) Modes of plowing. 



(c) The cultivation of new land. 



(d) Fencing. 



(e) Draining. 

 (/) Irrigation. 



(g) Culture of meadows. 

 (h) Culture of pasture lands. 



III. Vegetable productions, teaching the culture of 



(a) Cereal grasses. 



(b) Leguminous field plants. 



(c) Plants cultivated for their roots. 



(d) Herbage plants. 



(e) Grasses. 



(/) Plants used in arts and manufactures; such as flax, tinctorial plants, 



oleaginous plants, hops, tobacco, medicinal plants, etc. 

 (g) The vine. 

 (h) The mulberry. 

 (i) Fruit trees. 



IV. Animals used or reared by the agriculturist 



(a) Horses. 



(b) Mules. 



(c) Cattle 



1. Dairy. 



2. Fattening. 



(d) Sheep, and particularly the knowledge of the different kinds of wool. 



(e) Breeding and rearing swine. 

 (/) Fowls. 



(g) Silkworms. ' 

 (h) Bees. 



V. Economy, or the manner of arranging and conducting a farm, treating of 



(o,) Labor in general. 



(6) Labor with horses and oxen. 



(c) Labor performed by men. 



(d) Conducting a farm. 



(e) Bookkeeping. 



(/) The arrangement of a farm; the nature and quantity of manure required 



for a certain system of rotation of crops. 

 (g) Change of system. 

 (h) The different systems of rotations. 



SECONDARY DEPARTMENT. 



1. Veterinary. 



2. Technological agriculture, such as the making of sugar from beets, making 

 cider, burning lime, etc. 



3. Culture of forest trees. 



4. Agricultural architecture, and 



5. Civil engineering as connected with agriculture. 



AUXILIARY SCIENCES. 



1. Chemistry. 



2. Natural philosophy. 



3. Mineralogy and geology. 



4. Botany and physiology of plants. 



5. Zoology. 



