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EXAMINATION IN AGRICULTURE. 
Maximum Number of Marks, 400. Pass Number, 150, 
Tuesday, November 7, 1893. 
( Three hours allowed.) 
1. Write a short paper on the question of cubic air-space and ventilation of 
cow-houses. 
2. What are the advantages derived from the use of a “ digging ” plough ? 
3. Describe some economical system of feeding milk-cows during this 
coming winter, when both roots and fodder will be scarce. 
4. Make up a prescription for a mixture of artificial manures suitable for 
turnips on a loamy soil where no farmyard manure is used. 
5. Discuss the question of autumn versus spring manuring for root-crops. 
6. Given a field of run-out inferior pasture on a clay soil, state what you 
would do to improve it. 
7. Describe the work connected with the folding of sheep on turnips in 
winter, giving the quantities of each kind of food allowed per head per day. 
8. Explain what is meant by “pedigreed” seed. Describe how it has 
been developed, and what its value is to farmers. 
9. Describe the points of any one breed of pigs with which you are 
acquainted. 
10. Work out the average cost of a day’s work of a man and pair of horses. 
EXAMINATION IN ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY. 
Maximum Number of Marks, 200. Pass Number, 76. 
Tuesday, November 7, 1893. 
( Three hours allowed .) 
1. What is meant by quantiralence of the elements? Illustrate your reply 
by examples. 
2. What is oxidation ? Give instances of its action and the changes 
produced by it. 
3. Name the chief properties of sulphuretted hydrogen gas. IIow may it 
occur in nature, and what are its principal uses in the laboratory ? 
4. Which arc the principal compounds of magnesium ? Name their chief 
properties. 
6. Which salts are most generally met with in drinldng -waters, and how 
may the presence of any of these, in large or small proportion respectively, 
affect the nature of the water ? * 
6. How many different phosphates does sodium form with tribasic phos- 
phoric acid (H 3 P0 4 ) ? How can these be severally formed ? 
7. Define in chemical terms the following : Fluorspar, heavy spar, alabaster, 
borax, galena, vermilion. 
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