Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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^ [Reprinted from SOIKNOB, ft R, Fal. A VI /., A ; / / 1 WON OF CHEMISTRY ;• 1 AGRICULTURE TO Tin; subjeot assigned the writer on the pr tin of exeroises in honor of Dr. \\ \. Moyes, who was recently appointed head of the department of chemistry and director o( the laboratory at the University f Illinois, is "The Relation of Chemistry n to Agriculture. The friends o( the university, who are present here on this auspicious occasion, will. ;is a matter of course, not expert a m thing now ov Startling in a paper of tins kind. The application o( chemistrj to th art of agriculture is characterized by the une results which are manifest in many of the leading industries of the world after this fundamental scienoe had thrown new light upon the processes involved. One general and most important result in thi connection has been the establishment o( rationalism in the place o( empiricism. It is true that in some of the method employed in riculture em] ricism has h n m advance o( science. The beneficial •ts of barn-yard manure upon crops llni ami tho following addi sos 1>\ William McMurtrle, Juliun Si lil «;..i \] i m a foil, i ami William \. Noyi woro doll d at ll iiuuij'iii il «\ 4 of Pi.'I. i V \. n 1 hend t>i i m 1 department and dii ll m t| Inhorutoi \ of tin* I'nivi i\ nil ( M i l l IS. 100 ( I lilt
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