AGRICULTURAL COLLL*GE. 547 



Sophomore Year. 



Fall Term. 



Conic Sections and Plane Trigonometrt. — Griffin's Conic Sections. 

 Wells's Trigonometry. 



Botany. — Systematic Botany. Special study of useful and common 

 plants. Bessey's Botany. How plants grow, by Johnson. 



Chemistry. — Elementary Inorganic Chemistry. Instruction given by 

 lectures and text-book, and all important facts experimentally 

 demonstrated. Introduction to the study of Chemistry. Nomen- 

 clature. Symbols. Atomic Weights. Water and its constituents. 

 Air and its constituents. Quantivolence. Radicals. Stoichiome- 

 try. Acids. Bases. Salts. Consecutive consideration of the 

 non-metallic elements. 



German. — Sheldon's Grammar. Boisen's Reader. Oral and written 

 exercises. 



Agriculture. — Stock breeding ; laws of heredity ; causes of variation ; 

 in-and-in breeding and cross-breeding ; form of animals as an in- 

 dex of qualities ; selection and care of animals ; feeding for meat 

 pi'oduction ; the dairy and its work. 



Winter Term. 



Spherical Trigonometry and Mensuration. — Measurement of lines, 

 angles, surfaces, solids and volumes. Wells's Trigonometry. Tod- 

 hunter's Mensui'ation. 



Chemistry. — Metals of the alkalies. Metals of the alkaline earths. 

 Metals of each succeeding group considered distinctively. Each 

 element and subject is first treated frem a theoretical standpoint, 

 and then the agricultural and technical significance of the facts 

 learned are considered. 



Anatomy and Physiology. — Descriptive Anatomy by means of skele- 

 tons, classic models, fresh specimens, dissection, diagrams and 

 charts. Lectures and discussion of topics. Microscopic anatomy. 

 Chemical analysis. 



Mechanical Drawing. — White's Series. Use of instruments. Build- 

 ing plans, specifications, etc. 



German. — Eichendorflf. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts. Oral and 

 written exercises. 



Agriculture. — History of Agriculture, with particular reference to the 

 development of systems and rules of practice. Pioneer farming, 

 its methods and results. Mixed husbandry, — general principles 

 and their special applications ; cereals, forage crops, pastures and 

 meadows. Drainage, general principles ; different kinds of drains ; 

 laying out and construction of drains ; improved methods of lay- 

 ing tiles. 



