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Page 73 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 73 - ... the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislature of the state may provide, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 31 - The law creating this survey is comprehensive. It embraces not only a strictly geological survey, including a complete account of the rocks and minerals of the State and their chemical analysis, but also a natural history survey, comprising an examination of all species of trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses (native or naturalized), and a complete account of the animal kingdom, as represented in the State, including all mammalia, fishes, reptiles, birds, and insects.
Page 73 - The location of the University of Minnesota, as established by existing laws, is hereby confirmed, and said institution is hereby declared to be the University of the State of Minnesota. All the rights, immunities, franchises and endowments heretofore granted or conferred, are hereby perpetuated unto the said university ; and all lands which may be granted hereafter by Congress, or other donations for said university purposes, shall vest in the institution referred to in this section.
Page 73 - The object of the University of Wisconsin, shall be to provide the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of learning connected with the scientific, industrial and professional pursuits ; and to this end it shall consist of the following colleges, to-wit: 1st.
Page 74 - AN ACT To provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts", approved July 2, 1862, and all acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 74 - There shall be established in the University of Minnesota five or more colleges or departments — that is to say, a department of elementary instruction; a college of science, literature, and the arts: a college of agriculture, including military tactics...
Page 77 - PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE— History of Agriculture; brief review of chemical composition and physical properties of air and water as related to the soil and vegetation ; the chemical constituents and practical classifications of soils; properties, peculiarities, treatment and adaptations of each kind; reclamation and improvement of soils, including drainage, subsoiling, trenching, altering, fallowing, paring and burning, preparatory tillage, road making and fencing; manufacture, preservation and application...
Page 74 - An act donating land to the several states and territories, which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture, and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 77 - ... road making and fencing; manufacture, preservation and application of manures and stimulants; green manuring and irrigation; farm implements and machinery; production, management and sale of the different crops...