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contains specimen plants of nearly all the varieties of known 

 cereals, samples of seed of every species of plants used by the 

 agriculturist, and also a series of wax models of every variety 

 of cultivated roots. 



Management. — The management of the whole establishment 

 of the college is committed to the principal, who is responsible 

 to the council for every thing, and superintends and controls 

 every department of the college. He attends to the religious 

 instruction and moral discipline of every in-student, and exer- 

 cises such supervision over the conduct and pursuits of the out- 

 students, as the nature of their relations with the college will 

 permit. 



Agriculture. — The instruction in agriculture, consisting of 

 lectures and practical classes on the farm, is given by the 

 professor of practical agriculture, who is also the farm manager, 

 residing on the farm, where students have every opportunity 

 of becoming acquainted with and taking part in the manual 

 operations of husbandry. They thus acquire a practical knowl- 

 edge of the management of labor ; of the uses of the different 

 implements ; of the application of steam machinery to farming 

 purposes; of the breeding, rearing, feeding and general 

 management of all kinds of stock ; and of the rotation of crops, 

 and their fitness, more or less, for different soils. 



Each student is expected to keep a daily journal of all the 

 operations on the farm, and to make himself thoroughly 

 acquainted with the accounts. 



Chemistry and Chemical Manipulation. — A well-appointed 

 laboratory is devoted to instruction in chemical manipulation 

 and analysis, which are taught to each class of students in suc- 

 cession, under the superintendence of the professor of chemistry 

 and his assistant. 



The students, after studying the properties of the more com- 

 monly occurring substances, are made to analyze a series of 

 compounds, proceeding from simple to more complex cases ; 

 after which they apply the knowledge, thus obtained, to the 

 analysis of manures, soils, ashes of plants, farm products and 

 other substances more immediately useful to the practical 

 agriculturist. 



Analysis of artificial manures, oil-cakes, waters, &c., for 

 members of the Royal Agricultural Society, and others, are 



