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... soil , from heavy clay to light sand , with oak groves , heavy timber , and muck bed . The Cedar river runs through the Farm . Most of the soil is of the finest quality . The Board of Education procured the erection of a Boarding Hall ...
... soil , from heavy clay to light sand , with oak groves , heavy timber , and muck bed . The Cedar river runs through the Farm . Most of the soil is of the finest quality . The Board of Education procured the erection of a Boarding Hall ...
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... soils , in logging and fenc- ing . It was the misfortune of the Institution that the newness of the location rendered it unable to take advantage of the first enthusiasm which could not but be excited in regard to an en- terprise so ...
... soils , in logging and fenc- ing . It was the misfortune of the Institution that the newness of the location rendered it unable to take advantage of the first enthusiasm which could not but be excited in regard to an en- terprise so ...
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... determined mostly after fruiting . Ground has been prepared , on a piece of clayey soil , for a pear orchard of ninety - nine standard pears , with dwarfs be- tween . A first growth of clover was turned under 38 APPENDIX .
... determined mostly after fruiting . Ground has been prepared , on a piece of clayey soil , for a pear orchard of ninety - nine standard pears , with dwarfs be- tween . A first growth of clover was turned under 38 APPENDIX .
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... soils , on muck , the influence of the color of soil on its temperature , & c . , were given to the College at large , in a series of public lectures . The Meteorological Records have been kept by Dr. Kedzie . They have been made with ...
... soils , on muck , the influence of the color of soil on its temperature , & c . , were given to the College at large , in a series of public lectures . The Meteorological Records have been kept by Dr. Kedzie . They have been made with ...
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... soil and the state of cultivation . A map of the garden shall likewise be prepared , giving its divisions in sections , and subdivisions of sections , with a rep- resentation of the character and properties of the soil . These maps ...
... soil and the state of cultivation . A map of the garden shall likewise be prepared , giving its divisions in sections , and subdivisions of sections , with a rep- resentation of the character and properties of the soil . These maps ...
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1st prize acid acres Agr'l Soc Agri agricul Agricultural College Agricultural Society ammonia amount Board of Agriculture Board of Education Boarding Hall Expenses Botany bred breeds C. A. Kenaston C. A. Noble carbonic carbonic acid Charles Rich compost Cooley corn course of study crops cultivation culture Dennis Cooley donated duties experiments F. A. Stebbins Faculty Farm and Gardens farmers frost grounds Herbarium Horticulture inches Institution instruction J. S. Tibbits July KERR & CO labor land grant board Land Office Lansing Lapeer County Legislature Macomb county Manly Miles manures mechanic arts ments Michigan military tactics Muck and night N. Y. State Agr'l night soil number of students Oscar Clute phosphoric acid plants Plaster potatoes powdery muck practical President principles Professor purchase R. C. Kedzie Salt scrip season Secretary seeds selected SHORT-HORN sire Superintendent swamp T. C. Abbot tion ture
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Page 120 - ... 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 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 119 - 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 122 - 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 120 - 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 86 - 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 - And be it further enacted, That the Governors of the several States to which scrip shall be issued under this act shall be required to report annually to Congress all sales made of such scrip until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds.
Page 121 - 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; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of...
Page 121 - 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; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail [free], by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act [7 USCS §§ 301 et seq.], and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 119 - States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than onequarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one%dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the St'ates in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at...
Page 125 - ... 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...