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3. Practices in drawing. Drawing of situations. Copyinor 

 and sketching of simple agricultural buildings and parts of 

 buildings. Drawing of agricultural implements and machines. 



Summer Term, 



4. Continuation of general architecture. Construction of 

 different kinds of vaults ; ornamental works ; carpenter's work ; 

 joiner's and locksmith's work. 



5. Surveying, with exercises in the field. Explanation of 

 the most useful instruments for length and angle measuring. 

 Solution of different problems of practical geometry, on the field 

 and in practice. 



Second Course — Winter Term. 



1. Agricultural Architecture. — Laying out and construction 

 of houses and stables. Buildings for the preservation of agri- 

 cultural crops, &c. 



2. Meadow Management, with practical exercises. — Theory 

 and use of different levelling instruments. Water measuring. 

 Improvements of fields in general. Drainage. Irrigation. 

 Practice in levelling and water measuring. 



Prof. Meister lectured, in the winter term, three hours a 

 week, on physical geography, the atmosphere and climatology. 

 The barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, and psycorometer. 

 Effect of clearing off of forests. Relations of temperature to 

 the atmosphere and the earth, and the consequent distribution 

 of plants. Peculiarities of land and sea climate, and their 

 causes. Winds. Warmth and moisture. Amount of rain, 

 dew, number of rainy days, storms, fall of hail, and their dis- 

 tribution over the year, and the consequent physical charac- 

 teristics of the soil. Explanation of the century calendar, and 

 of the so-called rules for determining the w^eather. Tempera- 

 ture of the soil. Observations at different depths. Baromet- 

 rical and thermometrical measurement of bights. Construc- 

 tion of sun-dials. 



Judge Schleisinger lectured in the second course twice a 

 week, in both terms, on the general German agricultural law 

 in regard to the more important private rights and later laws in 

 regard to cultivation. 



