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... Veterinary medicine . Home economics .. Teacher training- Secondary education in the agricultural colleges .. Extension work___ Exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition_ Page 210 211 214 216 220 220 220 225 227 228 230 231 233 233 233 240 ...
... Veterinary medicine . Home economics .. Teacher training- Secondary education in the agricultural colleges .. Extension work___ Exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition_ Page 210 211 214 216 220 220 220 225 227 228 230 231 233 233 233 240 ...
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... veterinary medicine , illustrated with demonstrations , and of experiments with salt as a fertilizer and in feeding . In Ireland the Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry , Manu- factures , and other Useful Arts was founded in 1731 and ...
... veterinary medicine , illustrated with demonstrations , and of experiments with salt as a fertilizer and in feeding . In Ireland the Dublin Society for Improving Husbandry , Manu- factures , and other Useful Arts was founded in 1731 and ...
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... veterinary medicine , land measurement , drainage , irriga- tion , farm implements and buildings , and rural laws , together with higher departments of English education . For admission : English , grammar , geography , arithmetic . Age ...
... veterinary medicine , land measurement , drainage , irriga- tion , farm implements and buildings , and rural laws , together with higher departments of English education . For admission : English , grammar , geography , arithmetic . Age ...
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... veterinary medicine , farm implements , machinery and buildings , and practical exercises in agronomy , horticulture , animal husbandry , and farm engineering . A college building had been partially erected when the college opened ...
... veterinary medicine , farm implements , machinery and buildings , and practical exercises in agronomy , horticulture , animal husbandry , and farm engineering . A college building had been partially erected when the college opened ...
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... veterinary art , mensuration , leveling and polit- ical economy , with bookkeeping and the mechanic arts , which are directly connected with agriculture , and such others as the board of education may from time to time see fit to ...
... veterinary art , mensuration , leveling and polit- ical economy , with bookkeeping and the mechanic arts , which are directly connected with agriculture , and such others as the board of education may from time to time see fit to ...
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Page 204 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 100 - ... 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 100 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where 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...
Page 100 - ... shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act) and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college...
Page 100 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 204 - ... effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of...
Page 100 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 100 - Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful...
Page 99 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...
Page 74 - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or may hereafter be granted by the United States to the State for the support of a University, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called