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correct division of an estate into arable, pasture, meadow, 

 and woodland, according to circumstances, and the build- 

 ing of roads, bridges, and fences. They must understand 

 the use of rotation in crops; the management of the dairy; 

 the cultivation of vegetables in the market-garden and under 

 glass; the raising of small fruits and their transportation 

 and sale; the planting and culture of vineyards, orchards, 

 and forest trees; and the theory and practice of landscape- 

 gardening, with the proper selection and treatment of or- 

 namental plants. The strictly agricultural part of this course 

 is carried on for eight terms, mostly by lecture, embracing 

 the following topics : the history of agriculture, soils, drain- 

 age, irrigation, disposal of sewage, fertilizers, fields, crops, 

 implements, breeds and breeding, dairy-farming, cattle- 

 feeding, laboratory and experimental work. The horticul- 

 tural work covers six terms under the following heads : 

 horticulture, market-gardening, landscape-gardening, flori- 

 culture, sylviculture, care of greenhouses, and construction. 



III. The course in chemistry extends over nine terms, 

 the last three of which are almost entirely laboratory work, 

 eight hours per week. Commencing with lectures and prac- 

 tice in elementary chemistry, there follow in succession dry 

 and humid qualitative analysis, lectures and practice in 

 organic chemistry, chemical physics, and quantitative 

 analysis. In connection with this is a series of lectures on 

 the application of chemistry to the industries of life. 



IV. Botany covers seven terms, embracing structural, 

 analytical, economic, with laboratory work, cryptogamic, 

 and physiological. The course aims to treat of all the more 

 important features connected with the study of plants 

 which have a close bearing upon agriculture, without at the 



