Addresses Delivered at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, June 21st, 1887, on the 25th Anniversary of the Passage of the Morrill Land Grant Act |
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... soil , the fertility may be fully maintained and even increased by restoring to the soil the mineral and the organ- ic matter taken from it at the harvest . The second truth , and , one even more important than the other , was that the 11.
... soil , the fertility may be fully maintained and even increased by restoring to the soil the mineral and the organ- ic matter taken from it at the harvest . The second truth , and , one even more important than the other , was that the 11.
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... soils will enable one to restore those ingredients in the most efficient and economical proportions . It was accordingly held that for the encouragement of such studies , schools of agriculture must be multiplied . And from that day to ...
... soils will enable one to restore those ingredients in the most efficient and economical proportions . It was accordingly held that for the encouragement of such studies , schools of agriculture must be multiplied . And from that day to ...
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... soil , you must put something back , or the time will come when nature's cashier will cease to honor your drafts , and you will end in bankruptcy . And what a field for such teaching there is ; look at the statistics of our Agricultural ...
... soil , you must put something back , or the time will come when nature's cashier will cease to honor your drafts , and you will end in bankruptcy . And what a field for such teaching there is ; look at the statistics of our Agricultural ...
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... soil for the good of all animal and plant life , is repelled by parched hill sides , so that it shoots off in angry torrents and is soon once more in the lakes and the great rivers and the oceans beyond . Thus by a perfectly explicable ...
... soil for the good of all animal and plant life , is repelled by parched hill sides , so that it shoots off in angry torrents and is soon once more in the lakes and the great rivers and the oceans beyond . Thus by a perfectly explicable ...
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... soil , as it appeared by the decennial census reports , showing a less and less number of bushels of cereals pro- duced per acre throughout nearly all of the states . This deteriora- tion has not been arrested , though more vigilant ...
... soil , as it appeared by the decennial census reports , showing a less and less number of bushels of cereals pro- duced per acre throughout nearly all of the states . This deteriora- tion has not been arrested , though more vigilant ...
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Page 37 - ... that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.
Page 36 - 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 40 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for 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, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 8 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 36 - 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 selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 36 - State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Page 37 - That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by legislative acts: First.
Page 36 - 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...
Page 37 - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease...
Page 29 - It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage.