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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50
Course of Study. — Junior Year
Course of Study.
Junior Year.
First Semester.
| Hour. | |
|---|---|
| Fruit Growing and Forestry | I. |
| Agriculture—Its History and Development; Location, Construction and Sanitary Condition of Farm Buildings | II. |
| Domestic Animals—History, Breeding and Rearing | II. |
| Physics | III. |
| English | V. |
Second Semester.
| Botany—Structural | I. |
| Fences. Farm Implements and Machinery. Drainage. Tillage. Soils—Origin, Composition, Physical Properties, in relation toy heat, moisture, etc. Farm Teams | II. |
| Arithmetic | III |
| Mechanical Drawing and Surveying | IV. |
Senior Year.
First Semester.
| Agriculture—Its Relations to other Industries. Fertilization—By Yard Manure and Chemicals. Farm Crops—History, Improve merit by Breeding and Selection; their Cultivation and Harvesting. Lectures. Veterinary Science | I. |
| Botany—Cryptogamic, one-half semester | II. |
| Lithology (formation of soils from rocks), one-half semester | II. |
| Chemistry | III. |
| Mineralogy, one-half semester | IV. |
| Zoology and Comparative Anatomy | VI. |
Second Semester.
| Ethics, one-half semester | I. |
| Stock Feeding—Laws of Animal Nutrition and Art of Feeding. Dairying, one-hall semester | II. |
| Chemistry | II and III. |
| Geology and Physical Geography | II and III. |
| Economic Botany and Entomology | IV. |
Examinations.
Examinations will occur whenever a subject is completed and at the end of each semester.
Degree.
The degree of B. A. S. (Bachelor of Agricultural Science) will be conferred upon those who complete the course and pass the final examinations.
All students receiving a degree must prepare a thesis on some agricultural, subject to be presented by the college.
Expense of Course.
The expense of the course is very moderate and within the means of any [unclear: young] man desiring to complete it. A detailed statement of expense will, from the [unclear: index] be readily found elsewhere in the catalogue. From the following statements it [unclear: fdgg] be seen that room rent is free and opportunity for work is provided for and [unclear: require] of students of the Agricultural College.
Museums, Apparatus and Farm Library.—A small but valuable library of [unclear: fan] books has been collected to which additions are soon to be made. In addition [unclear: jgghgh] the Agricultural library, the students of the Agricultural College have access to [unclear: the] University library.
Museum.—An Agricultural museum is being organized that will be of [unclear: hghgh]assistance in class room work. A valuable geological and zoological collection, [unclear: consented] with the University, will render like assistance.
Chemical and Physical Laboratories—Laboratories in each of these [unclear: department] are well supplied with modern appliances for illustrating lecture room teachings.
Club Houses.—A group of club-houses on the farm will accommodate a [unclear: large] number of students, that are devoted to their free use, to facilitate the [unclear: instruction] given in field work. It is desired that students avail themselves of rooms at [unclear: the] club-house.
Greenhouse.—A greenhouse is connected with the Horticultural [unclear: Department] affording invaluable assistance in connection with the botanical studies, and for [unclear: the] improvement of plants.
Farm.—The farm is divided into two departments—Farm and Horticultural, [unclear: The] former consists of 600 acres of land of varying quality and is well adapted to [unclear: in] purpose of instruction and experiment work. The students will be required to [unclear: labour] six hours a week, two hours on each of three days of the week, and will be [unclear: condensated] according to the character and amount of the work done, ten cents being the maximum pay per hour. In addition to this field labor, students will be [unclear: requirement] to perform farm labor whenever it is desirable to illustrate lecture room [unclear: teaching]. Such work will be done without pay,
Experiments will be constantly carried on for the farming interests of the [unclear: State] and for lecture room work. Students will be required to assist in the experiments
The Horticultural Department will stand in the same relation to the lecture [unclear: rove] and to the public that the farm does. It is an indispensable aid in teaching [unclear: the] student small fruit culture, grafting, budding, pruning, hot-house propagation [unclear: and] vegetable gardening, etc.
The Horticultural Department is provided with two greenhouses—one [unclear: 25×11] feet and the other 16×80 feet, and has also about 1,000 feet of hot-bed sash for [unclear: propagating] purposes. In the orchard and fruit garden are about eight hundred [unclear: varieties] of fruits, which are used in illustrating lecture room work and for [unclear: experiments] purposes.
As an experiment station, the farm has organized many experiments in [unclear: stock] feeding, tillage and crop improvement. It has already published, under [unclear: the] present management, one bulletin of results of pig feeding, and is about to [unclear: issue] results of four months' work in stock feeding, after which frequent bulletins [unclear: will] appear regularly. As the farm has been but a fraction of a year under its [unclear: present] management, it is not deemed desirable now to make a special report of its work.
The Farm Superintendent, Levi Chubbuck, B. Ag., is a graduate of the [unclear: Missouri] Agricultural College.