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receive instruction in the following four agricultural sub- 

 jects : 



Agricultural Chemistry; 



Soils; 



Plant Propagation; 



The Principles of Breeding Plants and Animals. 



The last I consider almost as fundamental as the English 

 language. 



It is believed that the work of these four subjects should 

 be required of every student, whatever agricultural pro- 

 fession or pursuit he may subsequently follow. Since they 

 are to be required of all students of agriculture and since 

 they are the first technical ones in the student's course, 

 great care will be taken to secure for these four subjects 

 inspiring teachers. The student who does not come early 

 in his course in contact with, at least, one teacher that 

 inspires him with the love of scholarship and his subject 

 misses the best part of a college education. After instruc- 

 tors have been called they will not be permitted to place 

 these sophomore subjects in the hands of assistants, while 

 they confine their teaching to upper classmen. 



Having brought the student to the close of his sopho- 

 more year, when he must decide in what agricultural pro- 

 fession or pursuit he will specialize, the question arises 

 how, with our present headquarters, we can offer him suit- 

 able training. During the past decade forestry schools have 

 been compelled to study this problem. It is possible to 

 locate an institution on a farm, but there are some diffi- 

 culties in locating it permanently in a forest. The approved 

 plan in forestry schools now is to take the students at the 

 close of the sophomore year to the forest camp, where for 

 eight weeks they are given both theoretical and practical 

 instruction. During the junior and the first half of the 

 senior years they pursue their studies at the college. The 

 last half of their senior year they are again taken to the 

 forest, where they receive instruction under conditions 



