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  COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.
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>_ Agriculture. 1
, Selection of farms for special purposes. Division into fields {
  for different crops. How manures and composts are prepared , .
and kept. Seeding for hay, grain and root crops. Selection { ;
S of cows and other stock for farm purposes, with general di-
i rections for breeding the same. Farm accounts.
, Horticulture. ;
  Preparation of soils for horticultural and floricultural pur-
poses. Management of plants, including methods of propag_a-
l tion. Horticultural implements. Methods of obtaining new
varieties of vegetables, fruits and fiowers. Arrangement and
care of iiower and kitchen gardens, nurseries and orchards.
The construction and care of hot-beds and greenhouses. Prin-
ciples of landscape gardening. Practical green-house work by .
the student supplements the lectures.
. Elementary Botany.
' I. Outlines of structural botany and the rudiments of vege-
table anatomy and physiology.
ll. Systematic botany; general classification of plants, with
particular study of the more important natural orders of
phrenogams. Practice in analysis and Field study of the local
tlora.
Elementary Zoology,
· Distinctions between animate and inanimate objects ; life dis-
{ tinctions between plants and animals; definition of general `V
I terms; development; basis of classification; characters of the
i various classes with a more detailed account of the porifera;
· actenozoa cestoda, with a description of the life history of the
I common tape-worm and of the form causing "·staggers" in
I sheep; nematoda, including thread-worms, trichina, wheat an-
guillula, cause of gapes in chickens, etc, ; lamellibranchiates:
E gasteropoda ; cephalopoda ; arthropoda ; vertebrates.