Agricultural Education — Examination Papers, 1886. xxi 
1. What are the conditions necessary to the germination of the 
seed : and how does the farmer provide them ? 
2. What are the principal requirements of the plant during the 
growth of the crop : and how does the cultivator provide them (a) in 
the case of the wheat crop, and (6) in the case of the turnip crop ? 
3. What are the last steps in the ripening process, (a) in the case 
of the wheat crop, and (6) in the case of the apple or the pear. In 
what respect or particular should this (a) affect or guide the practice 
of the farmer at harvest time : and are there any other crops in which 
(&) a corresponding ripening to that of the apple or pear takes place ? 
4. Enumerate and describe the various methods of harvesting of 
which the crops of English agriculture admit. 
III.— THE LIVE STOCK OF THE FAEM. 
1. Enumerate the various products of animal life which are (a) 
saleable or (6) unsaleable on the farm. 
2. State the various processes of waste (a) which food undergoes 
during the work of nutrition : those also (6) to which its several 
products are liable. 
3. Enumerate and describe the various preservative or economising 
agencies which can be enlisted and directed to the diminution or 
avoidance of the several wastes to which food is thus liable — viz. : 
those (a) affecting the efficiency of food in the body, and those 
(6) which can be applied to the preservation of its several products. 
B. ELEMENTAEY CHEMISTKY. 
November m, 1886. 
(Tliree Hours Allowed.') 
1. Describe briefly the general properties of oxygen. What class 
of compounds does it form with other elements, and how do these 
vary in their general characteristics ? Are there any elements with 
which oxygen will not combine ? 
