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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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28 APPARATUS. The College has for the illustration of Practical Agriculture, a large stock farm of 410 acres, provided with a large stock barn, fitted up with stables, pens, yards, cooking room, etc.; and fine stock of several breeds of neat cattle, embracing Short Horns, Herefords, Devons, Ayrshires, and Jersey Cattle. It also has several breeds of swine and sheep, to illustrate the problems of breeding and feeding. An Experimental Department, aided by a special appropriation, has also been organized. It includes field experiments in the testing of the different varieties and modes of culture of field crops, and in the comparison and treatment of soils, carried on at the University farm, where about sixty acres are devoted to this purpose, and at other points representing the different soils and climates of the State. I t includes also experiments in horticulture and agriculture, under th© direction of the Professor of Horticulture and of the Farm Superintendent, and of experiments in feeding animals of different ages, and development upon the various kinds of food. In common with similar departments in the several State agricultural colleges of the country, it attempts to create positive knowledge towards the development of an agricultural science. At a meeting held at Chicago, in August, 1871, the representatives of a dozen or more of these institutions agreed to co-operate in this work, and to make experiments in common, as well as others peculiar to their several States. A veterinary hall and stable is provided, and a Clinic is held in the Pall or Winter Term, to illustrate the lectures on Veterinary Science. Surveying and drainage are illustrated by practice in the field. Chemistry is pursued by work in the laboratory. Collections of seeds, soils, plants, implements, skeletons of animals, models and apparatus are provided to illustrate the several branches of Agricultural Science. II. SCHOOL OP HOBTICTTLTUBE. The aim of this school is to afford a scientific and practical education, specially adapted to the wants of those who cultivate garden and orchard plants. In the fertile soils and favorable climate of our State, with our rapidly increasing population and easy transportation, this department of human industry, always of prime importance, is becoming more and more prominent, more lucrative to the successful grower, and more essential to the comforts and enjoyments of home. The enhanced price of land, the competition of numbers, the increasing depredations
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