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Caption: Course Catalog - 1875-1876
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STOCK FARM BARN. COLLEGE ©F AGRICULTURE* FACULTY. THE REGENT, PROFESSOR TAFT, PROFESSOR SHATTUCK, PROFESSOR WEBER, PROFESSOR MILES, PROFESSOR BURRILL, DOCTOR F. W. PRENTICE^ ASSISTANT C. I. HAYS. SCHOOLS. SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE, SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. OBJECT OF THE SCHOOL. The aim of this school is to educate scientific agriculturists. The frequency with which this aim is misunderstood by the community at large, demands that it shall be fully explained. Many, who look upon agriculture as consisting merely in the manual work of plowing, plant' ing, cultivating and harvesting, and in the care of stock, justly ridicule the idea of teaching these arts in a College. The practical farmer who has spent his life in farm labors, laughs at the notion of sending his son to learn them from a set of scientific professors. But all of this implies a gross misunderstanding of the real object of agricultural science. It is not to teach how to plow, but the reason for plowing at
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