Fruit store-room.—Heating and lighting apparatus; how to use and clean them.
Hygiene.—Open air and close air, meteorological factors.
Water.—Its qualities.
Soil.—Its fertilisation and sanitation.
Chemistry.—Bodies, simple and composed. The soil in its relation to plant life—artificial manuring; air, light, heat, water, drink, food, seasonings. Practical experiments.
Book-keeping.—Domestic and patrimonial administrations; compilation of inventories; current accounts; buying and selling; State funds; plain book-keeping and other methods; book-keeping for business on a small scale; auxiliary books; special accounts and their books; registry and balance account; exercises in domestic and agricultural book-keeping.
Cooking.—The lessons will be as much as possible demonstrative, and accompanied by manual practice of the more important operations of agriculture (grafting, pruning, sowing, etc.), of agricultural industries, and also of house-keeping and cooking. Holiday re-unions will be held under the supervision of the patronesses of the institute, and instructive excursions will be made.
Admission.—For the theoretical and practical classes the girls must be at least sixteen years old.
A formal request on official stamped paper must be presented, together with the legalised birth certificate and documents proving that students have obtained—either at private or public schools—the necessary education in all ordinary knowledge. There must also be a certificate of good health and of vaccination.
The admission fee is 10 lire (8s.), besides the payment of 40 lire (32s.), to attend the lessons. At the end of six months, after a theoretical and practical examination, a certificate of steady attendance and progress will be given.