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... improvements , the Board have been able , by rigid economy , to find means to put a new roof upon the brick barn , at ... improvement of the remainder of those lands , as required by the law . For a fuller account of the College than is ...
... improvements , the Board have been able , by rigid economy , to find means to put a new roof upon the brick barn , at ... improvement of the remainder of those lands , as required by the law . For a fuller account of the College than is ...
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... improvement of said lands , and about $ 200 will go to purchase books already ordered . The Board held their last ... improvements of land and buildings , are now going on , or are ordered for the winter . When all the Board contemplate ...
... improvement of said lands , and about $ 200 will go to purchase books already ordered . The Board held their last ... improvements of land and buildings , are now going on , or are ordered for the winter . When all the Board contemplate ...
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... improvements on the farm the past season have been confined principally to land which had previously been under cultivation . There are now 250 acres which have been put in- to crops . A portion of this is entirely destitute of stumps ...
... improvements on the farm the past season have been confined principally to land which had previously been under cultivation . There are now 250 acres which have been put in- to crops . A portion of this is entirely destitute of stumps ...
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... improvements already made in the Col- lege grounds , have not been without their influence in promo- ting habits of ... improved is intended mainly as a nursery from which to stock the other . In order to bring the piece in- to condition ...
... improvements already made in the Col- lege grounds , have not been without their influence in promo- ting habits of ... improved is intended mainly as a nursery from which to stock the other . In order to bring the piece in- to condition ...
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... improvements were made here during the past season and but little done besides keeping them in as good order as our limited force would admit . The amount of students ' labor charged to this account is $ 50 . A good share of this ...
... improvements were made here during the past season and but little done besides keeping them in as good order as our limited force would admit . The amount of students ' labor charged to this account is $ 50 . A good share of this ...
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Agricultural College Agricultural Society Amount of cloudiness animals Apples AUSTIN BLAIR average Ayrshire Ayrshire cattle beef Berkshire Board of Agriculture Boarding Hall breed broadcast sowing bushels bushels per acre butter C. A. Kenaston cattle CENTAGE cents Charles Rich cheese Chester White Cir.Cu Cir.St corn cows crops Cu.St cultivated dairy Devon disease drill experiments F. A. Stebbins Faculty farm farmers fatten favorable GENESEE COUNTY Hessian fly horses improved inches institution KALAMAZOO COUNTY Kind of clouds labor land Macomb county Manly Miles manure Merino Michigan milk month muck Oscar Clute P. M. Mean paid warrant plants Plaster pleuro-pneumonia plow portion pounds Prentiss produced profitable R. C. Kedzie roots S. S. Rockwell Salary season Secretary seed sheep soil sold swine T. C. Abbot Thermometer timber tion variety winter wool yield
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Page 10 - 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 122 - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United 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 121 - 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 124 - Fifth. When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished. Sixth. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the Government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act.
Page 122 - 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 128 - ... 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 in life.
Page 123 - State shall cease ; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid.
Page 123 - 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 22 - The legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an agricultural school.
Page 127 - ... 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...