The Course of Instruction.

Practical Work.

Students are required to take part in the regular daily work of the farm, so as to acquire a practical knowledge of ploughing and every other kind of farm work, the use of implements and machinery, the management of stock, milking, and the making of cheese and butter.

Work is carried on daily in the chemical laboratory. In illustrating the teachings of the lecture theatre, agriculture specimens are as frequently as possible used Students during their term of residence proceed from the testing of simple substances to the quantitative analysis of—especially—manures, soils, foods, and farm and dairy products generally.

Biological laboratory work includes:—Use of the microscope, and the preparation of microscopic objects: examination of and experiments with rust, smut, and other injurious fungi; germination of seeds under various conditions; examination of the minute anatomy of plants: cells and cell contents; evolution of heat; diffusion of fluids in plants; rate of growth; fertilization; maturation of seeds, &c., &c. Water-culture; examination of milk and other animal fluids; organic impurities in water: Bacteria, in nitrification. &c.: the minute anatomy of injurious inserts.

Field investigations with regard to the life and history of injurious insects and fungi.

Adulteration of seeds.

In Land Surveying and Levelling, field-work will be undertaken at suitable times for practice in the use of iustruments, in measuring land, harvest and other piecework, and in taking levels for drainage purposes, the results of the field-work being plotted, and plans drawn.

The carpenters' and blacksmiths' shops are furnished with the necessary appliances Students take their turn at work with the carpenter and blacksmith, so that they obtain practical instruction in both rough carpentry and farriery as far as these are carried out on the farm.