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APPENDIX F. COUBSB OF INSTEUCTIOH. 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, agricultural 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 ; fertilisation ; maturation of seeds, &c.; water culture; examination of milk and other animal fluids; organic impurities in water; bacteria in nitrification, &c.; the minute anatomy of injurious insects. Field investigations with regard to the life-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 instruments, in measuring land, harvest and other piece-work, and in taking levels for drainage purposes, the results of the field-work being plotted and. plans drawn. The carpenter's and blacksmith's 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. Syllabus of Lectures. Agriculture. The proper aim of the farmer when cultivating the soil; relation of animals and plants to the soil; composition of the plant; sources of the food of plants; origin, formation, and physical properties of soils; causes of diversity of soils ; relation of soils to water, heat, &c.; improvement in the mechanical condition of soils by cultivation, drainage, &c.; construction and use of cultivating implements, harvesting machinery, &c. Chemical composition of soils; condition of the various constituents; effects of exposure thereof to atmospheric action; available supply of plant-foods in soils; exhaustion of soils; nitrogen and nitrification; means of preventing exhaustion and of restoring fertility; rotation of crops; manuring; special and general manures and their application; market value of special manures according to their chemical composition; the cereals, their habits, peculiarities, and