212 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



About an hour a week is devoted to orthography, to teach 

 correct writing and language, and to develop facility in writing. 

 It includes examples of receipts, bills, notices, &c. 



3. Agriculture. On climate, atmosphere, knowledge and 

 estimation of kinds of soil and their cultivation or working. 

 On machines and implements, their manufacture and repair, the 

 parts of which they are composed and their use, the handling 

 and management of sowing, threshing and cutting machines, 

 to guard against accidents. On the formation of manure 

 heaps and the manufacture of manure, the application of 

 different sorts of manure. On the knowledge of seeds, and the 

 different methods of sowing and planting. The treatment of 

 plants during the period of growth. The reduction of different 

 feeding substances to the hay value. Estimation of the neces- 

 sary requirements of manure. On the various methods of 

 harvesting, threshing, preservation and drying. On the valua- 

 tion of fruits. On the arrangement and keeping of simple farm 

 registers. Plan and model drawing from measurement. 



Technical Employments. — On milk and the products of 

 milk. On the erection and management of brandy distilleries, 

 and the suitable materials to use. 



CuLTQRE OF MowiNG Lands. — Preliminary instruction. 1. 

 Levelling by the application of the level and other instruments. 

 2. Measuring of level surfaces, lines, angles, and figures ; tri- 

 angles, quadrangles, right angles, the circle, practical exercises 

 in these operations. 3. Laying out trenches and dams for 

 water or irrigated meadows, calculation of bodies of water, and 

 the requirements of water for irrigated meadows. 4. Tools for 

 field culture. 



The practical management of meadows. Study of meadow 

 or field plants. Requirements of seed »and time of sowing. 

 Seed raising. Manuring mowings with barn and compost 

 manures, with liquid and artificial manures ; the hay harvest 

 and its yield. Preparation of brown hay ; care and improve- 

 ment of meadows other than irrigation. 



Drainage. — When and how to be applied. The work pre- 

 paratory to draining. 



Cattle Breeding. — Application of anatomy to horse, cattle, 

 sheep, and swine breeding. The various breeds and their 

 characteristics. Explanation of particular methods of improv- 



