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... institution occupying the front rank among the Agricultural Colleges of the country , and one of the very few that ... institutions is being reorganized and modeled after ours . As ours is strictly an agricultural State , the importance ...
... institution occupying the front rank among the Agricultural Colleges of the country , and one of the very few that ... institutions is being reorganized and modeled after ours . As ours is strictly an agricultural State , the importance ...
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... institution , at which the youth of the State may acquire a common school education , and a scientific and practical knowledge of agriculture , horticulture , and the mechanic arts , and also the proper care and growth of stock ...
... institution , at which the youth of the State may acquire a common school education , and a scientific and practical knowledge of agriculture , horticulture , and the mechanic arts , and also the proper care and growth of stock ...
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... institution for first five years established under the Federal Act , passed in 1862 , as indicated by the reports of the Commissioner of Education concerning the 47 institutions named . The report of Lieut . Buck , U. S. A. , the ...
... institution for first five years established under the Federal Act , passed in 1862 , as indicated by the reports of the Commissioner of Education concerning the 47 institutions named . The report of Lieut . Buck , U. S. A. , the ...
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... institution is out of debt , and has sufficient funds to meet all expenses to the meet- ing of the Legislature in January , 1886. The last Legislature gave the College the same general support as given to the State University , viz ...
... institution is out of debt , and has sufficient funds to meet all expenses to the meet- ing of the Legislature in January , 1886. The last Legislature gave the College the same general support as given to the State University , viz ...
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... They have truly followed out the spirit of the law and organized and conducted the institution as indicated in the heading of the Federal Act of 1862 , viz : " To benefit agriculture AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE . 15.
... They have truly followed out the spirit of the law and organized and conducted the institution as indicated in the heading of the Federal Act of 1862 , viz : " To benefit agriculture AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE . 15.
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Page 47 - 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 78 - ... its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes...
Page 58 - That in order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same...
Page 64 - 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...
Page 64 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 49 - An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 49 - ... comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective...
Page 62 - The grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants...
Page 79 - States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre...
Page 49 - ... to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals ; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same ; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial...