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floriculture. 



Habits of Growth of different types 

 of Weeds. Methods of extermination, 



Practical Work.— Each lecture will be 

 followed by practical work in the labor- 

 atory or out of doors. 



Economic Mycology. 

 First Year.— The life-bistory of the 

 chief fungus pests of cultivated fruit 

 and vegetables. The use of preventive 

 measures, and the preparation and 

 application of fuugieides. Spraying 

 machinery ; hand and pow er pumps. 



Second Year— Gere ral classification of 

 parasitic fungi. Detection of fungus 

 pests in the field, and their determin- 

 ation in the laboratory. The conditions 

 inducing predisposition of cultivated 

 plants to disease. Indirect methods of 

 control of plant diseases (treatment of 

 seed or stock, special manuring and 

 cultivation). Plant-breeding in relation 

 to resistance to disease. The control 

 of fungus diseases by legislation. '"The 

 Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1907." 



For Honours — Original investigation 

 of problems in plant pathology will be 

 required of each student during a third 

 year's course. 



Economic Entomology. 

 Insect pests of apple, currant, cherry, 

 damson, gooseberry, loganberry, peach, 

 plum, raspberry, strawberry, vine. 

 Fumigation, sprays and spraying. In- 



sect pests of onion, carrot, beet, tur" 

 nips, celery, cabbage— wireworm, leather 

 jackets, surface larvae, centipedes and 

 millipedes, rose pests, carnation and 

 other fly maggots, hothouse scale insects. 

 Practical work of observing insect pests 

 and their damage, and of applying 

 preventive and remedial measures in 

 the orchards. 



For Honours.— Original investigation 

 of problems connected with insects 

 attacking fruit and vegetable crops will 

 be required of each studeut during a 

 third year's course, 



Book-Kbeping. 

 Principles and methods of keeping 

 accounts by single and double entry. A 

 simple and concise method of keeping 

 fruit-growers' and market gardeners' 

 accounts. Use of cash book; ledger, 

 salei-' book and wages book. Preparation 

 of profit and loss accounts. Balance 

 sheet and capital account. 



Economics of Production. 

 The elements of political economy — 

 land, labour, capital, rates and taxes, 

 free trade, protection, money, the re- 

 lation of the State to the producer. 

 Legislation affecting fruit-growers. 



Woodwork. 

 Instruction will be given in the shops 

 in practical carpentry, making frames, 

 lights, etc. 



LIVE STOCK. 



ANTI-RINDERPEST SERUM, ITS 

 PRODUCTION AND USE. 



By Dr. C. G. Thomson, d.v.m,, 

 Veterinarian in Charge of Serum Labor- 

 atory, Alabang Stock Farm, Alabang, 

 Rizal, P. I. 



(From the Philippine Agricultural Re- 

 view, Vol. II., No. 12, December, 1909.) 



Rinderpest has probably caused greater 

 losses to owners of cattle than any other 

 one disease. It has existed for centuries 

 in Asia, was introduced into Europe 

 about two hundred years ago and later 

 into Africa. Millions of animals have 

 succumbed to its ravages in different 

 countries during the past two or three 

 centuries. It may be readily understood 

 why individuals and governments have 

 made every effort in their search for 

 some instrument to use in the sup- 

 pression of so appalling a scourge. It 

 was rinderpest that tiret called forth 



government aid in the support of veterin- 

 ary colleges and the institution of veterin- 

 ary police regulations. In the early 

 ages, all of the crude drugs and treat- 

 ments were applied to the disease, and 

 with the advance of the medical sciences 

 more progressive methods were made 

 available. But no success was attained 

 until after the discovery of the bacterial 

 origin of disease, with the subsequent 

 development of serum therapy and its 

 application to rinderpest. Science ex- 

 perimented with all of the thousands of 

 drugs and compounds of the pharmacist, 

 but ultimately ascertained that the 

 preventative for rinderpest could be 

 obtained from but one source, the body 

 of the susceptible animal, in the form of 

 blood-serum. 



Anti-rinderpest serum is the fluid 

 portion of the blood of cattle which have 

 been immunized against rinderpest and 

 subsequently manipulated to a state of 

 high resistance to the disease. It is 

 administered by subcutaneous iuoeu- 



