AGKICULTUKAL EDUCATION. 
Senior Examination Papers, 1877. 
EXAMINATION IN AGKICULTURE. 
Maximum Number op Maeks, 200. Pass Number, 100. 
Tuesday, April 17th, from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. 
1. In selecting for your own agreeable and profitable occupation a 
mixed farm of say 400 acres, wbat proportion of arable, meadow, and 
grass land would you adopt, and wbat otber considerations would 
mainly guide you ? 
2. Mention some of tbe conditions occurring in most farm-agree- 
ments, and note any tbat you consider migbt be modified or left out 
without injury to tbe farm. 
3. Furnish a list of the field-implements required on a large mixed 
farm, stating the numbers and price of each. 
4. Give a list of the grasses and clovers commonly used for 1, 2, or 
3 years' lay, with the quantity and price per acre of each. 
5. In seeding down land for permanent grass or meadow, what 
additions would you make to the before-named mixture ? (Botanical 
as well as English names should be given.) 
6. What are the three most important ingredients of every good 
turnip manure ? and how much per acre, of each, would you apply 
where no farmyard-dung can be spared ? 
7. Mention, in monthly succession (beginning with October), the 
operations common on a mixed farm throughout the year. 
8. Describe, briefly, the preparation of a field for swedes, and at 
about what date would you sow the seed ? 
9. Draw, roughly, on a scale of 8 feet to an inch, the ground-plan 
of a spacious and convenient single byre for 12 cows, showing drain- 
ing, and the communications with adjoining offices. And mention 
the leading points to be kept in view in designing all first-class farm 
buildings ? 
10. Mention 12 leading points of a well-made Shorthorn cow. 
11. Describe the treatment of Shorthorn heifers from birth until 
they drop the first calf, stating age at which this last event may take 
place. 
