General Agriculture CURRICULUM Course Description Credit Basic English 1,2,3 Basic Communication 9 Requirements Health Education 1 Personal Hygiene 2 Orientation 1 Freshman Orientation 2 Physical Education 3 approved activities 3 Professional Agriculture 1 General Soils 5 Requirements Agriculture 2 Field Crops 5 Agriculture 3 Animal Husbandry 5 Agriculture 7 Plant Propagation 3 Agriculture 10 Gen. Horticulture 3 Agriculture 4 Feeds and Feedings 5 Agriculture 5 Irrigation and Drainage 4 Bacteriology 1 or 4 Prin. of Bacteriology 5 Botany 1, 2 General Botany 10 Chemistry 1,2,3, or General Chemistry or Chemistry 4,5,6 Prin. of Chemistry 15 Economics 1,2 Prin. of Economics 6 Mathematics 1 or Intermediate Algebra or Mathematics 4 College Algebra 5 Sociology 5 Rural Sociology 3 Zoology 1 or 4 Invertebrate Zoology 5 COURSES OF INSTRUCTION Agriculture 1. General Soils. A survey of the field of soils designed as a foundation course for students in agriculture and forestry. Prerequisite: Two quarters of college chemistry. Four lectures and one laboratory period a week. Five quarter hours. Spring. Monk 2. General Field Crops. Fundamental principles of crop production including classification and cultural methods involved in the production of grain and root crops. Five quarter hours. Four lectures and one laboratory period a week. Autumn. Monk 3. General Animal Husbandry. A survey of field of animal husbandry, emphasizing breeds and breed types. Four lectures and one laboratory period a week. Five quarter hours. Winter. Monk 4. Feeds and Feedings. Fundamental principles of animal nutrition with emphasis on practical livestock feeding. Four lectures and one laboratory period a week. Five quarter hours. Winter. Monk 5. Irrigation and Drainage. A study of the principles and practices of irrigation and drainage, emphasizing the relation of soils and crops to irrigation, measurement of water, irrigation of common crops, methods of irrigation, design of farm ditches, and essentials of farm drainage. Three lectures and one laboratory period a week. Four quarter hours. Autumn. 7. Plant Propagation. Principles of sexual and asexual propagation. Gathering, storing, and planting of seeds. Making of cuttings, budding, and layering. Two lectures and one three-hour laboratory a week. Three quarter hours. Spring. Monk 8. Vegetable Production. Raising, harvesting, storing, and processing of vegetables. Three lectures and one laboratory a week. Four quarter hours. Autumn or Spring. Monk 9. General Floriculture. Fundamental principles involved in the culture of annual and perennial flowers, bulbs, house plants, shade trees, shrubs, and lawn. Three lectures and one laboratory a week. Four quarter hours. Winter or Spring. Monk 10. General Horticulture. An introductory course in the principles underlying the culture and production of fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants. Two lectures and one laboratory period a week. Three quarter hours. Autumn. Monk 30. General Livestock Breeding. A study of the Principles of reproduction and breeding of farm animals. Three lectures a week. Three quarter hours. Winter. Johnson 31. Fitting and Showing Livestock. Latest methods of preparing animals for exhibition. Each student to receive actual experience. One laboratory a week. One quarter hour. Winter. Johnson Vocational Agriculture This program is designed to meet the needs of the young farmer who is attempting to establish himself in the business of farming, and to aid the farmer in acquiring additional skills and understanding which will help him to make satisfactory progress in farming. It is also designed to assist the individual young farmer to recognize his own problems. During the Spring, Summer, and Autumn, instruction is carried out on the individual young farmer's farm, thus coordinating the practical farm work with the laboratory and class room studies. Special farm visits are a part of the total program. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION Vocational Agriculture 51. Fruit and Vegetable Crop Production. Location of fruit plantings, varieties, propagation, pruning, soil management, and the culture of vegetable crops. Three quarter hours. Spring. Monk 54. Plant Propogation. A program designed to help the home owner or farmer in propagating flowers, trees, or shrubs to be used around the home, on farm or in the garden. Two to four quarter hours. Autumn, Winter.