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THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDYING AGRICULTURE IN THE UNI- 

 VERSITY AT HALLE. 



.(From the Calendar of the University of Halle.) 



By the foundation of the chair for agriculture in this uni- 

 versity in 1862, and its further extension in 1863, the university 

 of Halle has been enabled to offer practically a complete 

 course in every department of agriculture, to suit the practical 

 farmer, the teacher of agriculture and the student of such 

 sciences. In this university the studies of agriculture are 

 cairied out in the buildings situated alongside of those where 

 the other sciences and arts of the university are likewise 

 studied. The Agricultural Institute is an integral part of the 

 university, precisely in the same manner as is the medical or 

 natural science department. In the faculty for agriculture the 

 lectures are included mainly under four general sections : 



In the first, what might be called agricultural discipline, are 

 included : 



History and general methods of agriculture. 

 General considerations of land structures. 



Special considerations of plants, fruit and garden culti- 

 vations. 



General and special considerations as regards the breeding 

 of animals. 



Considerations including dairy produce, etc. 



Section 2. Technical considerations of cultivation of land ; 

 general laws of the subject. 



Measurement of land : hydraulics, drainage, road and 

 meadow building, etc. 



Section 3. Natural science, including physics, chemistry, 

 mineralogy and geology, special botany, zoology, and com- 

 parative anatomy. 



Section 4. Political economy and legal science. 

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