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ADVANCED OR GRADUATE WORK IN AGRICULTURAL

SCIENCE.

The advanced instruction is designed to fit men for teachers and experimenters, and it may lead to the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture, and to Doctor of Philosophy. The laboratories, dairy building, farm gardens, orchards and libraries give ample facilities for the prosecution of independent work of a high character.

A yearly fellowship of an annual value of $500 is assigned to the following group of departments: Agriculture, Horticulture and Veterinary Science. See page 65.

The Special Course.

The Special Course is intended for young persons who cannot well spend four years in preparing themselves to become farmers and who yet wish to avail themselves of technical and practical instruction in modern scientific agriculture.

Persons who are eighteen years of age and who furnish evidence to the Director that they are able to pursue the work elected in a satisfactory manner, are admitted to the Special Course without examination. The number of hours and the courses elected must be approved by the Director. This course may extend through either one or two years. The required work as given on page 230 is designed for students studying for the degree of B.S.A. and not for Special Students. Special students, during the time they are in the University, enjoy equal advantages in all respects with students who are studying for a degree. They are admitted by a vote of the faculty upon recommendation of the Director of the College. Applications for admission to the Special Course should be made personally or by letter to the Director.

Synopsis of Courses.

Agriculture. The instruction in Agriculture proper treats of soils and their preparation; fertilizers; harvesting and marketing general and special crops; laying out and improving farms; drainage and irrigation; farm buildings and fences, location, plans and construction ; farm yard manures and commercial fertilizers, composition, manufacture, preservation and application; farm accounts, business customs, rights and privileges; employment and direction of laborers; farm implements and machinery, use, care and repairs; grasses and forage plants; weeds and their eradication; swine, sheep and horse husbandry, breeds and breeding, care, management, and feeding.

The practice will include setting up and running farm machinery and engines; the sharpening and repairing of small tools, drawing plans and specifications of farm buildings; mapping drains, and farm book-keeping.

Dairy Husbandry.-The class-room instruction consists of lectures upon the production of milk and its manufacture into its various products. The dairy house practice will comprise the making of butter and cheese by the most approved methods; testing of milk as to purity and fat content; the use and care of centrifugal separators and other creaming devices and the details of creamery and cheese factory management.

Animal Industry.-Lectures will be given on the origin and formation of the various breeds of dairy and beef cattle; their selection and improvement; the improvement of native cattle and formation of new breeds; the composition of stock foods and their combinations into rations suitable for various purposes. Practice will be given in tracing and tabulating pedigrees; judging by scale of points; and computing rations.

Poultry Keeping.-Will include instruction in breeds and breeding; feeding and management; incubation, artificial and otherwise; construction of poultry houses and their management.

Horticulture. The instruction in Horticulture is given in twelve courses. Course I is designed to afford a general scientific foundation for the prosecution of all studies relating to the variation and amelioration of plants under conditions of domestication and cultivation, and it has only indirect reference to Horticultural methods and practices. Course 6 is intended for those advanced students who have had some training in systematic botany, and who desire to familiarize themselves with the complex botany of cultivated plants. Courses 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, IO, are calculated to afford the latest information and methods connected with the commercial cultivation of plants, and in all of them laboratory work and field practice are important factors.

The Experiment Station, which is a department of the University, offers opportunity for students to observe and study the investigations which are being carried on in many branches of animal and plant industry.

A. Agriculture.

I. Wheat culture; preparation of soil, seeding, insects, harvesting, marketing; farms, selection and purchase, location with regard to markets, roads, schools, society; farm buildings, location, plans, construction, liability of contractors; fields, shape and size; fences

and gates. construction, repairs, durability of wood; farm and public roads, bridges and culverts; farm yard manures, composition manufacture, preservation, application; commercial fertilizers, composition and use. Lectures. Fall term. Daily, ex. Saturday, II. Five hours. Morrill 19. Professor ROBERTS.

2. Inspection of roads, bridges and farm buildings. Agricultural survey and comparison of farms; practice in fields, shop, and barns. Fall term. T., 2-5. One hour. Professor ROBERTS.

3. Farm accounts; business customs, rights and privileges, form of contracts, notes, deeds, mortgages; road laws, employment and direction of laborers; swine husbandry, breeds, feeding, management; the horse, breeds and breeding, feeding, education, care and driving ; sheep husbandry, breeds and varieties, management and care, early lamb raising. Lectures. Winter term. Daily except Saturday, II. Five hours. Morrill 19. Professor ROBERTS.

4. Judging and scoring horses, swine and sheep; work in shop and barns; running engines and other farm machinery. Winter term. T., 2-5. One hour. Professor ROBERTS.

5. Farm drainage, construction, material, cost and utility; history of plows and plowing; farm implements and machinery, use, care and repairs; corn, oat, barley, flax, hop, potato and tobacco culture; grasses and forage plants; silos and ensilage; weeds and their eradication. Lectures. Spring term. Daily, except Saturday, II. Five hours. Morrill 19. Professor ROBERTS.

6. Practice in fields and shop, use of tools, implements and farm machinery, draining, surveys and mapping. Spring term. T., 2-5, One hour. Professor ROBERTS.

7. Seminary work for advanced students. One hour. By appointment. Morrill 19. Professor ROBERTS.

8. History of Agriculture. Lectures and reports. Spring. W., F., 9. Two hours. Morrill 19. Mr. LAUMAN.

9. German Agricultural Reading. M., S., 9. Two hours. Morrill 17B. Mr. LAUMAN.

10. Farm Buildings. Study and designing of farm buildings. One afternoon per week, 2-4.30. One hour. Mr. LAUMAN.

II. For students in Veterinary Science. Breeding, care and management of horses, sheep and swine. Stables, construction and sanitation. Two hours. Fall term. Professor ROBERTS.

12. For winter course students. Lectures on the leading subjects in courses 1, 3, 5, above, will be given so far as time will permit. Daily, except Saturday, 9. Five hours. Morrill 19. Professor

ROBERTS.

13. Practice as in courses 2, 4 and 6, in sections by appointment, one afternoon for each section per week. Winter term. hours. Professor ROBERTS.

2-5. Two

Professor Roberts will be assisted by specialists in giving instruction in some of the subjects named.

B. Animal Industry and Dairy Husbandry.

21. Animal Industry. Principles of breeding, history and development, improvement and creation of dairy and beef breeds of cattle; principles of feeding, care, selection and management of dairy and beef cattle. Winter and spring terms. Lectures. M., W., 12. Practice one hour by appointment. Three hours. Dairy Building. Assistant Professor WING.

22. Dairy Husbandry; milk and butter. Fall term. Lectures. T., Th., 12. Practice two afternoons by appointment. Four hours. Dairy Building. Assistant Professor WING.

23. Dairy Husbandry; cheese. Winter term. per week, 10-1, by appointment. Three hours. Assistant Prosessor WING.

Practice two days

Dairy Building.

24. Dairy Husbandry. Laboratory work on special problems. Fall and spring terms. By appointment, one to three hours. Open only to students who have had course 22. Assistant Professor WING.

25. For Winter Course Students. Animal Industry and Dairy Husbandry. Principles of breeding, feeding, and selection, care and management of dairy cattle. Daily, 8. Practice one afternoon by appointment. Dairy Building. Assistant Professor WING.

26. For Dairy Course Students. Winter. Lectures on milk and its products; breeding and feeding, daily, 8; lectures on subjects related to dairy husbandry, daily, 9; practice in butter and cheese making and in dairy laboratory, daily, 10-4:30. Dairy Building. Assistant Professor WING, Messrs. HALL, GRIFFITH and TROY, assisted by others of the faculty of the College of Agriculture.

Course 26 or the "Dairy Course" may be elected by special students in Agriculture as a full term's work for the winter term.

27. Poultry. Origin, history and classification of the domestic breeds of poultry; breeding, feeding, and management; construction of buildings, incubators, and brooders. Lectures, T., Th., 12. Practice in running incubators and brooders and in judging and selecting fowls, by appointment. Two or three hours. Spring term. Assistant Professor WING.

28. For Winter Course Students. The work is the same as course 27. Lectures. T., Th., 12. Practice by appointment. Regular

and special students may elect the lectures in this course instead of in course 27 if they prefer. Winter term. Assistant Professor WING.

C. Horticulture.

I. Evolution of Cultivated Plants. Lectures and text-book. A discussion of the current hypotheses of organic evolution as applied to the modification of plants, particularly of those in cultivation. Open to students in all courses who have taken courses 1 and 2 in Botany. Fall. M., W., F., 10. Three hours. Morrill 19. Professor BAILEY.

2. German Horticultural Reading. T., Th., 9. Two hours. Morrill 17B. Mr. LAUMAN.

3. The Literature of Horticulture. A seminary in the literature of the cultivation of plants in various parts of the world, with reviews of periodical literature. Fall, Th., 10. One hour. Morrill 17B. Professor BAILEY and Mr. LAUMAN.

Fall. Lect

4. Greenhouse Construction and Management. ure, T., 10, Morrill 17B, and laboratory work, W., 2–4:30, at Forcing Houses. Two hours. Professor BAILEY and Mr. LAUMAN.

5. Pomology. Lectures, text-book aud other class exercises upon the cultivation of fruits. Winter. M., W, F., IO. Three hours. Morrill 19. Professor BAILEY.

6. The Botany of Cultivated Plants. A seminary course, registration for which is by special permission. Winter. T., IO. One hour. Morrill 17B. Professor BAILEY.

7. Propagation of Plants. Deals with the multiplication of plants,-grafting, budding, making cuttings, pollination, etc. Winter. Lectures and text-book, Th., 12, and laboratory work, Th, 2-4:30. Two hours. Forcing-houses. Professor BAILEY and Mr. LAUMAN.

8. Principles of Vegetable Gardening. Lectures. Spring M., W., 10. Two hours. Morrill 19. Professor BAILEY.

9. Field Lessons. Pruning and the study of orchards and plants where they grow. Garden tools. Includes the theory and practice of spraying plants. Spring. M.. 2-4:30. One hour. Forcing-houses. Professor BAILEY and Mr. LAUMAN.

10. Handicraft. Practical work in the forcing-houses and gardens, with familiar talks. One to three hours, by appointment. Professor BAILEY, Mr. LAUMAN and Mr. HUNN.

II. Investigation incident to previous courses. For graduates and advanced students. Hours by appointment. Professor BAILEY. 12. For Winter Course Students. The general subjects presented in the foregoing courses. Winter. Lectures and text-book,

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