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Zoology, Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, Drawing 

 (plans of farm buildings). 



Sessions 3 and 4. Practical Agriculture (tillage, crops, 

 etc.), Chemistry (organic). Book-keeping, Surveying, 

 Physics, Geology or Botany or Zoology, Veterinary Pathol- 

 ogy, Drawing (farm machinerj^). 



Sessions 5 and 6. Practical Agriculture (stock, dairy, 

 economics). Chemistry (agricultural), Book-keeping, Engi- 

 neering, Mechanics, Geology or Botany or Zoology, Veter- 

 inary Therapeutics, Drawing (designs for farm buildings). 



Agricultural law in the winter session ; building materials 

 and construction in the spring, and general estate manage- 

 ment, with the principles of forestry, in the summer. Let it 

 be observed here, that there are in Great Britain no schools 

 of forestry for advanced pupils, and that candidates for gov- 

 ernment positions are sent by the government and the agri- 

 cultural societies to acquire an education at the great forestry 

 school of Nancv, in France. Connected with the college, 

 for practical illustration, are forges, blacksmith and carpen- 

 ter's workshops, a botanical garden and veterinary hospital. 

 Established in 1845, the first class was graduated in 1847, 

 and while some three thousand have enjoyed its benefits, only 

 two hundred and eighty-six have received its diploma. 



Of the agricultural societies, the most influential is the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England. With a member- 

 ship of nearly ten thousand, it cannot but make itself felt 

 most widely. One of its leading objects is declared to be 

 ' ' to take measures for the improvement of the education of 

 those who depend upon the cultivation of the soil for their 

 support." 



This it has endeavored to do by establishing scholarships 

 at the universities and colleges ; by oflfering ten scholar- 

 ships of $100 each and ten of $50 each to such students as 

 would take a year's course of study at an agricultural col- 

 lege, or spend a year with some approved agriculturist ; 

 by oftering prizes in certain of the veterinary colleges, and 

 to tenant farmers for the best-managed farms. For eleven 

 years it has conducted experiments at Woburn on the effects 

 of difterent manures, and published the results in its jour- 

 nal. Through the same organ, the names of those dealers 



