The University of Virginia record :: April, 1909 :: University of Virginia Library

1. Elementary Agriculture.—The subject is planned to be useful
to teachers intending to use it in their schools. Newest things
will be considered as well as the most practical and useful. Experiments
suitable for schools are carried on in class room and in garden.
Lessons are made real by objects and materials. Teaching is done by
demonstrations and experimental proofs of principles. The following
topics will be treated:

Corn selection; production of good seed corn; testing seeds for
vitality; butt, middle and tip kernels of seed corn; conditions for
germination; testing soils for acidity; soils and their characteristics;
the office of root-hairs on plants; saving soil moisture; poison in
soils; rotation of crops; study of nodules on legume roots; renovation
of worn out soils; clover and alfalfa seed; alfalfa in the eastern
states; roots of corn plants; curing clover hay; weeds and how to
kill them; cotton seed and its products; use of soiling crops; catch
crops and cover crops; cuttings for house plants; layering and plant
division; budding peach trees; prunning a fruit tree; the home garden;
the school garden question.

Lessons are subject to change and will be suitable for any who
attended agricultural classes in Summer School of 1908. A simple
manual will be used.

Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Chemical Laboratory.

2. Advanced Agriculture.—This course is intended for those who
have completed a course in elementary agriculture in the Summer
School or elsewhere or who have completed a course in Botany,
Biology, Physics or Chemistry. There will be outlines and experimental
courses in:

1. Soils and fertilizers.
2. Agricultural Botany.
3. Insects and plant diseases.
4. Principles of nutrition and animal feeding.
5. Agricultural physics and mechanics.
6. Types and breeds of farm animals with stock judging.

These subjects will be taken up in a practical way and adapted
to use in upper grades and high schools. Many of the experiments
and demonstrations will be in the garden. Daily from 9:30 to 10:30,
Chemical Laboratory.