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rites, and koprolites, gypsum, wood and peat ashes. Manuring 

 with oil-cakes, ammonia, and nitric acid salts. Fish guano. 

 The formation of soil through the culture of agricultural plants. 

 The chemical principles of fallowing and rotation. Drainage. 

 Chemical analysis of soils and kinds of manure, the ashes of 

 plants, of spring and running water, and of different agricul- 

 tural products. On Liebig ; Chemistry in its application to 

 agriculture and physiology, <fec. 



In connection with these lectures, the chemical laboratory 

 was open daily during the term, and the students worked indus- 

 triously in it, in making analyses of soils, manures and ashes, 

 milk, potatoes, feeding materials and cereals, sulphuric acid 

 and phosphoric acid determinations, <fec. 



2. Agricultural Technology. — Four hours weekly. Fermen- 

 tative processes of the beer brewery, the brandy distillery and 

 vinegar manufactory in its whole range. Making of butter 

 and cheese, making of starch, and the application of the latter 

 to the production of sago. Lime and brick burning. Turf 

 cutting. 



Technological Practice^ four half-days a week in the winter 

 term, and one half-day in the summer term. Manufacture of 

 Bavarian normal and strong beer, potato, grain and maize 

 brandy, vinegar, starch, &c. Demonstrations in the brandy 

 distillery, the cheese dairy, the brick-yard, at the lime-kiln, and 

 on the turf or peat meadows. Investigation of various raw 

 materials and fabrics. Agricultural technological mechanics. 

 Excursions to farming estates in the neighborhood. 



Professor May gave lectures in the winter ternS, five hours 

 weekly, upon — 



1. The anatomy of the horse, the sheep and the swine, with 

 demonstrations by skeletons and preparations. 



2. Physiology of domestic animals, in connection with the 

 feeding proper for them. 



3. The races of the larger farm animals. Study of the dif- 

 ferent races, breeds and families of improved domestic animals, 

 their form, characteristics and useful qualities. 



4. General principles of the production of animals. Meth- 

 ods and principles of breeding. Green, dry, root, bulb and corn 

 fodder. Wastes of the farm. Loss and injury from particular 

 feeding materials. Comparative composition of different mate 



