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cultivation; cost of cultivation, and value of root and fodder crops generally; laying down to grass; grasses in general. The live-stock of the farm; breeding, management, feeding, &0., of farm-horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; dairy management, the processes of cheese- and butter-making; wool-growing, bacon-curing; the feeding value of foods. Chemistry and Physics. Objects of chemistry and its relation to agriculture ; matter and force; elements and compounds ; chemical affinity ; different modes of chemical action; nomenclature and formulas ; atoms and molecules ; quantivalence ; acids, bases, and salts; relation of temperature and pressure to gases ; the non-metallic elements, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, chlorine, bromine, iodine and fluorine, sulphur and phosphorus ; the atmosphere and its connection with animal and vegetable life ; source of combined nitrogen; water, impurities affecting it for domestic purposes; composition of rainwater; sewage; manufacture of sulphuric acid; manufacture of superphosphate of lime and other artificial manures ; products of combustion and fermentation ; chemical changes taking place in farmyard manures, &c.; the general composition of the proximate constituents of plants and animals ; carbohydrates, starch, sugar, &c.; albuminoids, gluten, casein, fibrin, &c. The metals and their compounds ; economic use in agriculture; alloys, &c.; potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, aluminium, tin, antimony, arsenic, copper, lead, mercury, gold, silver, and platinum; detection of mineral poisons; the mineralogical constituents of rocks and their chemical composition ; functions of the mineral food-constituents of plants ; essential and non-essential soil constituents ; assimilation ; chemical preparation of plant-food in the soil; absorptive properties ; animal nutrition; chemistry of digestion, respiration, and excretion; constituents of food; ratio between heat-giving and flesh-forming foods. Organic chemistry: Principles of organic analysis; hydrocarbons, alcohols, ethers, acids, ethereal salts; the composition and properties of the more important animal and vegetable products; sugars, starches, oils and fats, gums, aromatic compounds, albuminous substances, fibrin, casein, gluten ; composition and functions of animal fluids, blood, milk, bile, gastric juice, urine, &c.; biliary and urinary calculi; the various kinds of fermentation ; manufacture of wine, vinegar, &c.; action of ferments in the ripening of cheese, rancidity of butter ; nitrification in soils ; the vegetable alkaloids, strychnine, brucine, morphine, &c.; organic colouring-matters, preparation and use of in dyeing ; tannins; products resulting from the destructive distillation of coal, wood, &c.; the chemical changes taking place during germination, ripening of fruits, maturation of seeds. Heat: Temperature and expansion, latent and specific heat, conduction and radiation ; distillation, evaporation, &c. Sound: Production, propagation, and reflection of sound, vibration, &c. Light: Velocity and intensity of light, mirrors, lenses, refraction and polarisation, prismatic analysis, photometry, &c. Electricity: Magnetism, fractional and voltaic electricity, electromagnetism, voltaic piles, &c. Natural Science. Morphological Botany. —The external form of plants; the development of organs; structure and life-history of the chief orders of Cryptogams, more especially of parasitic fungi; special morphology of those orders of Phsenogams comprising the plants found on the farm; special modifications to effect fertilisation, &c.; external characters of the seeds of agricultural plants and weeds. Physiological Botany. —Nature and formation of the cell; modes of increase; combinations of cells ; modifications; functions of organs; food of plants; absorption; diffusion of fluids in plants; movements of plants; evolution of heat in plants; germination; diseases of plants and proposed remedies; variation; origin of species ; influence of external agents on plants ; distribution of agricultural plants. Entomology. —The chief orders of insects; detailed structure and life-history of insects; injurious effects of certain species; causes of their sudden increase; proposed remedies. Geology and Physical Geography. —Causes of changes upon the earth's surface; distribution of land and water; action of natural forces—changes of temperature, wind, and volcanic action; action of water as rain, rivers, glaciers, the sea, &c.; disintegration of rocks ; formation of soils from rocks; formation of limestones; coal, lignite, peat, &c.; classification of rocks, &c. Veterinary Science. Anatomy of the horse, cattle, and sheep; structure and mechanism of the skeleton; muscles; organs of digestion, circulation, &c.; dentition. Pathology : Diseases of various organs, and remedies therefor. Treatment of wounds and accidents; materia medica. • Mathematics and Land-surveying. Arithmetic; algebra; plane trigonometry, including the solution of triangles; logarithms; Euclid. Mensuration of every kind of surface, of solids, artificers' work, excavations, embankments, timber, &c. Elementary hydrostatics and hydraulics; pressure of water; artesian wells; the different kinds of pumps ; waterwheels; siphon; hydraulic friction; hydraulic press and ram, &c. Mechanics; parallelogram of forces; mechanical powers; steam-engine; laws of motion, &c.; definition of " work;" conservation of energy. Land-surveying and levelling. Book-keeping, Meteorology, and Mechanical Drawing. Book-keeping.- —Explanation of commercial terms ; documents used in ordinary business transactions; the books used in book-keeping; single and double entry, &c.