The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-28
THE AGRlCUL1 URAL COURSE Al
THE STATE UNIVER SITY.
A CIRCULAR LETTER TO THE Young MEN
OF WISCONSIN WHO EXPECT 10
BECOME FARMERS.

DEAR SIR Your attention is called
to the new Agricultural Course at the
University of Wisconsin, planned under
direction of the Board of Regents and
designed to give instruction in Agricul-
tural Science.
. Heretofore the long time required
and the large expense necessitated by
courses running through two and four
years evidently deferred many from at
tending who might otherwise have come,
and to obviate these difficulties the new
course is limited to twelve weeks, dur
ing the winter months, when farmers
sons have the most time for study. In
this course it is designed to give the
largest amount of instruction in the
theory and science of agriculture that
the time and condition will allow, and
to adapt this instruction to the immedi-
ate and future needs of our farming
population. The course will be made
up in sixty lectures upon Agriculture,
sixty upon Agricultural Chemistry, sixty
upon Agricultural Botany and twenty
four upon Veterinary Science.
AGRICULTURE. BY PRoF. w. A. HENRY.
Among the topics treated may be
named live stock I: History and descrip-
ton of the improved breeds, theory of
stock breeding, studies and pedigrees
from the several herd books, care and
management of stock and dairying.
Land drainage Effects of tile drainage,
methods of draining, and laying out sys-
TENS of drains. Farm Crops: History
of the cereals and grasses, methods of
cultivation. Farm buildings, roads and
road-making, farm accounts. Use will
be made in the lecture room of the lam
tern, for projecting photographs upon a
screen, showing noted animals, buildings,
ETC.. Numerous maps, charts, drawings,
models; herd-books, etc., will be used.
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. BY PROF.
III. P. ARMsBY.
The instruction in agricultural chem
istry will be given by daily lectures dur
ing the whole of the course, amply il
Illustrated by experiments, specimens,
charts, diagrams, etc. The following
are some Of the most important sub
jects which will receive attention:
Chemical elements contained in air,
soil, crops, animals and manures.
|Stock-feeding How folders are digest
ed laws of growth and fattening feed
ing for meat, milk, growth, etc. Fod-
ders Composition, digestibility and
comparative value. Milk: Compost
ton, milk-testing, principles of dairy
ing. The air: Composition relations
to growth of crops. The soil: Forma-
ton, classification, and physical proper
ties; water and air of the soil the soil
as source for food for crops. Manures:
Necessity for manuring classification
of manures; stable manure, its com.
position and value as affected by the
food eaten-manurial value of folders.
Commercial fertilizers Nitrate of soda,
dried blood, bone manures, superphos-
pilates, guanos, potash salts, lime, salt,
plaster, etc.; general properties of COM
mercial fertilizers how and when to
use them. Tillage Objects and effects.
Undertaking.
In treating these and kindred subjects,
the endeavor will be to make plain the
principles upon which the success or
failure of farm operations depend. In i
many cases the same subject will be
treated of in the lectures upon agricul- |
ture from the side of practice, the ap-
plication of the general principles to the |
problems of farming being illustrated |
and enforced.
BOTANY. By PROF. A. B. SEYMOUR.
To render the instruction in botany as
as possible, three courses
have been arranged, as follows:
Lectures on the structure of plants
and the manner in which they feed, grows
and reproduce their kind will be given
daily through the course. Their object
will be to make the student familiar
with the laws of vegetable life, and espe-
cially those which suggest the proper
treatment for cultivated plants.
Laboratory work may be taken by all
he students who are able to devote two
hours a day to it, and wish to become
by careful study with the
principal plants of interest to the farmer.
Those who elect this work viii study
weeds and grasses, or woody plants, as
hey may prefer and if faithful work is
performed, they should be able, at the
end Of the course, TO easily identify the
more common plants of the group they
nave studied.
VETERINARY SCIENCE. By Y. 7. ATKIN-
SON, State Veterinarian.
In these lectures the anatomy and
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