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Note.—Students who are intending to take the Agricul- ture Course are advised to consult the Dean of the Faculty before entering upon it.
Compulsory Entrance Subjects.—There are none, but as a preliminary to the *degree course the following subjects at the School Intermediate Examination standard are ad- vised:— Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry, and French or German. A knowledge of Physics and Chemistry is also desirable. Matriculation is required.
(1) Bachelor of Agricultural Science (B.Agr.Sc.).—Can- didates are required to complete four years and pass four examinations for this degree. Credit may be retained for subjects passed in any year. Provided the major portion of a year has been passed candidates may, with the permission of the Faculty, proceed with subjects of a later year.
During each year of the course, candidates must attend Lectures, Laboratory Work, Demonstrations, and Excur- sions as required by the Faculty. In the Second Year of the course. residence at the Werribee State Research Farm is required. A pre-requisite to entry on the Fourth Year of the course is the production of certificates of not less than five weeks' experience in some phase of pastoral, agricul- tural or horticultural work, approved by the Faculty. The period covered by the certificates must have been spent since the December Annual examinations of the Second Year.
SUBJECTS OF THE COURSE.
The subjects of Lectures, Practical work, and Examina- tion in the various years of the course are as follow:—
*There is a Diploma Course in Agriculture, which is iden- tical with the Degree course, except that matriculation is not required. It is necessary, however, that candidates should have passed at some Public Examination in six subjects, including English, Algebra, and Geometry, unless they are, for special reasons, exempted by the Professorial Board from this requirement.
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First Year (Pass and Honour).
Zoology I. (Agricultural course) . Botany I. (Agricultural course).
Chemistry I. (Agricultural course) .
Natural Philosophy I. (Agricultural course).
Second Year (Pass and Honour).
Agricultural Geology.
Agricultural Entomology I.
Agriculture I. (including Animal Husbandry and Dairying) .
Elementary Organic Chemistry.
Third Year (Pass and Honour).
Agricultural Botany.
Agricultural Chemistry.
Agricultural Entomology II.
Agriculture II.
*Physiology (Agricultural course).
*Veterinary Pathology.
Fourth Year (Pass and Honour).
Group A.—Agricultural Biochemistry.
Agricultural Engineering and Surveying.
Agriculture III.
(Pass only.) Group B.—Agricultural Bacteriology.
Plant Pathology.
Principles of Horticulture and Viticuilture.
Veterinary Dietetics.
Group C.—Dairy Technology.
Horticultural Science.
Note.—Candidates who pass in the subjects of Group and at least one subject in Group B thereby comiplete ti the passing of the remaining subjects of Group B is r
*These subjects must be passed at some Annual cor
Sped
Examination. Usually they are taken in the Thiird Yea though they do not form a prescribed part of the course fi that year.FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE.
31 Fourth year of the course, but for admission to the degree quired, provided that, with the permission of the Faculty, one subject from Group C may replace a subject of Group B.
FEES PAYABLE.
Matriculation Fee £2 2 0
For each Year-except the Second . 25 0 0
For the *Second Year 6 6 0
For Supplementary Examination 1 1 0
Annual Sports Fee 1 10 0
Annual Club House Fee-
Non-Collegiate Students 1 1 0 Collegiate Students 0 10 6
Fee for the Degree 10 10 0
For students combining in any one year the subjects necessary to complete one year of the course and some only of the subjects of the succeeding year, the fees are as for single subjects or £25 ; but if the whole of one year is taken with one or more subjects of another year, the latter must be paid for as single subjects.
Fees for Single Subjects.
Lectures, Laboratory Work and Field In-
struction in Agriculture I £26 5 0 Any One Section of the same subject . . 7 7 0 (2) Master of Agricultural Science (M.Agr.Sc.).—Can- didates for this degree must either have completed the Bachelor's course, or the fourth year of that course. In the latter case admission by the Faculty is required. At least a year of practical work, involving training in re- search and the passing of an examination in an approved branch of science applied to Agriculture are then required.
The examination is for pass and honours, and includes —
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*A residence Fee of £1/5/- per week (about £37/10/- in all) is payable to the Council of Agricultural Education for the period spent at Werribee State Research Farm.32
(a) the preparation during the year of a critical revie of the literature on some subject or subjects; (b) a repo by the candidate on his original work; (c) an examina tion which may be both written and practical; provide that if (b) is of sufficient merit the candidate may be ex cused from (c) . Candidates must be Bachelors of Agricul ture of at least one year's standing before they can be ad mitted to the degree.
A J. M. Higgins Research Foundation Scholarship of £12 may be awarded on the honour results of the examinatio
Bachelors of Agriculture of three years' standing may al be admitted to the degree on the results of an approv thesis, or on evidence of three years' experience togethe with a dissertation on an approved subject or subjects an an examination therein.
FEES PAYABLE.
For the Examination, £5/5/-, which is deducted from the degree fee of £12/12/- if the candidate passes. If a the is submitted the examination fee is £10/10/-.
SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PRIZES'.
The following Exhibitions, Scholarships and Prizes a open for competition at the Honour Examinations in th various years of the course.
FIRST YEAR.
Subject. Value. Title.
Botany I. £20 Payne
Chemistry I. £25 Dwight or Medical
Natural Philosophy L £25 Dwight or Syme
Zoology I. £20 Sweet or Swanton
THIRD YEAR.
Agricultural Botany £20 Third Year Agricultural Chemistry £22 Jantes Cuming Agriculture II. £20 J. M. Higgins
he following Research Scholarship is open to application:
J. M. Higgins Research Foundation
FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE.
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FOURTH YEAR.
turai Biochemistry £22 James Cuming cultural Engineering £20 Mason
culture III. £30 Wrixon
oie Year £60 to £200 Gyles Turner
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PRESCRIBED TEXT-BOOKS FOR 1934.
Author Title Publisher Edit. Price
AGRICULTURAL BACTERIOLOGY TEXT BOOK.
Mackie & Introduction to General Bacteriology Livingstone 17/- McCartney
FOR REFERENCE.
Muir & Ritchie Manual of Bacteriology Oxf. Press 9th 26/- Orla Jensen Dairy Bacteriology Churchill 2nd 32/-
Russell Micro Organisms of the Soil Longmans 12/6
Waksman Principles of Soil Microbiology Bailliere 74/- AGRICULTURAL BIOCHEMISTRY
CONSULT IN LIBRARY.
Monographs on Biochemistry Longmans Various AGRICULTURAL BOTANY
TEXT BOOK.
Swart Flora of Victoria Melb. Univ. 30/-
Press FOR REFERENCE.
Jost Physiology of Plants Oxf. Press O.P
Miller Plant Physiology McGraw 56/-
Maxinov The Plant in Relation to Water. 34/.
Percival Agricultural Botany Duckworth 21/-
Skene Biology of Flowering Plants Sidgwick 26/-
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY TEXT BOOK.
Russell Soil Conditions and Plant Growth Longman 34/
FOR REFERENCE.
Comber The Scientific Study of the Soil Arnold 12/3 Cumming & Quantitative Chemical Analysis Gurney 25/-
Hall The Soil Murray 14/9 11
Hall, A. D. Fertilizers and Manures Murray 13/-
Keen Physical Properties of the Soil Longmans 34/- Prescott The Soils of Australia in Relation to Vegeta-
tion and Climate
Robinson Soils : Their Origin, Constitution, and Murby 36/- Classification.
Walker Introduction to Physical Chemistry. Macmillan 28/6 The books in this section are obtainable from Messrs. ROBERTSON &
MULLENS LTD., Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, C.1.
Prices subject to alteration.
FA CULTY Or A.IŸRICUliZVRE.
Author Title Publisher Edit. Price
AGRICULTURAL ENTOMOLOGY, I.
FOR REFERENCE.
French Destructive Insects of Victoria, (5 Vols.) Govt. Print. 2/6 each
Folsom Entomology Murray 34/-
Tillyard Insects of Australia and New Zealand Angus & R. 21/- AGRICULTURAL ENTOMOLOGY, II.
FOR REFERENCE.
Imms Text-book of Entomology Methuen 43/6
AGRICULTURAL GEOLOGY TEXT BOOKS.
Rutley Elements of Mineralogy Murby Read 10/- Singleton Agricultural Geology Notes Typewritten Free
FOR REFERENCE.
Emerson Agricultural Geology Wiley 28/6
Glinka Great Soil;Groups of the World Murby 27/6
(Mimeographed, trans. by C. F. Marbut.)
Merrill Rocks, Rock Weathering and Soils Macmillan 2nd 38/6
Rastail Agricultural Geology Cam. Press 17/-
Robinson Soils : Their Origin, Constitution, and Murby 36/.
Classification.
Scott An Introduction to Geology Macmillan 2nd 33/- AGRICULTURE D.
FOR REFERENCE.
Babcock & Genetics in Relation to Agriculture McGraw 2nd 40/- Clausen
Hayes & Breeding Crop Plants McGraw 27/6
Garber
Montgomery Productive Farm Crops Lippincott 3rd 21/- Taylor Outline of Agricultural Economics Macmillan 24/6 Griffith The Australian Environment Govt. Print. O.P
Taylor Melb.
Thurstone Fundamentals of Statistics Macmillan 15/-
Wilson A Manual of Mendelism Black 7/6
AGRICULTURE, III.
FOR REFERENCE.
Federal Dairy Investigation Committee's Govt. Print
Report 2/10
The books in this section are obtainable from Messrs. ROBERTSON &
MULLENS LTD., Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, C.1.
Prices subject to alteration.
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Author Title
Editor or Publisher Edition Price 'T5
Cherry Victorian Agriculture Paterson 2nd 2/8
Fortier The Use of Water in Irrigation McGraw 3rd 24/-
Hall Feeding of Crops and Stock Murray 12/8
Hall The Book of the Rothamsted Experiment Murray O.P.
Hopkins", Soil Fertility and Permanent Agriculture Ginn ®4,) 30/- Howell Soil Problems in Wheat Growing Robertson O.P.
O'Brien Agricultural Economics Longman 17/-
Orwin Farming Costs Oxf. Press 14/-
Roberts History of Australian Land Settlement M.U.P. 21/- Widstoe Principles of Irrigation Practice Macmillan 14/3
PHYSIOLOGY (AGRICULTURAL COURSE)
TEXT BOOKS.
Osborne & Elementary Bio-chemistry Young
Wood & Physiology of Farm Animals (Partil.) Marshall
PLANT PATHOLOGY TEXT BOOKS.
Brooks Plant Diseases
Gwynne, The Structure and Development of the Fungi Vaughan & B.
FOR REFERENCE.
Gaumann- Comparative Morphology of Fungi Dodge
Heald Manual of Plant Diseases
Massee Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees McAlpine Systematic Arrangement of Australian
Fungi
Stevens The Fungi that Cause Plant Diseases
Ramsay Cam. Press
Oxf. Press Cam. Press
McGraw McGraw Duckworth
Govt.
Printer Macmillan
12/8 20/-
34/- 25/-
55/- 51/8 12/8 O.P.
37/ PRINCIPLES OF VITICULTURE
FOR REFERENCE.
Arndt Perold Wickson
Fruit Growing under Irrigation A Treatise on Viticulture Californian Fruits
Various Viticultural Publications
Hassell Macmillan Pacific Rural
Press, S.F.
Vict. Dept.
Agri.
10/6 144/ 9
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The books in this section are obtainable from Messrs. ROBERTSON &
MULLENS LTD., Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, C.1.
Prices subject to alteration.
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