No. 129.] 286 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



From the 5th volume of the new series of the very valuable 

 periodical of the Sociedade Auxiliadora da Industria Nacioual 

 of Rio de Janeiro, No. 1, June, 1850, presented to the Institute 

 (with others) by Mr. L. H. F. de Aguiar, Consul of Brazil, I 

 translate the following: 



Project of an Agricultural School offered by Pedro de Alcantara 

 Lisboa, a Member oj the Society. 



Article I. — There shall be established in our municipality a 



School of Agriculture, which shall be followed by others in the 



capitals of the provinces, as soon as the first shall by experience 



prove to be advantageous. 



Article 2. — In this schciol a regular course of agricultural 

 science shall be follov/ed, as well practical as theoretical. The 

 scholars admitted to the practical and theoretical course shall be 

 such as are destined to superintend rural establishments. Those 

 admitted to the practical course are destined to serve as subordi- 

 nates to the first class. 



Article 3. — Ey creating such bodies of theoretical and practi- 

 cal men, the Government will fjrm tlie means of properly em- 

 ploying capital in agriculture. 



Article 4.— The merely practical scholars shall be taught the 

 national language, arithmetic, religion, and go through a course 

 of practical agriculture. 



Article 5. — Tlie course of the school shall occupy five years, 

 the following order : 



First % ear. 



1. G-eneral botany and its use. 



2. General zoology. 



3. General physics and chemistry. 



Second year.. 



1. Zoology and its uses. 



2. Physics and chemistry applied to agriculture. 



3. General mechanics. 



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