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Caption: Course Catalog - 1886-1887
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38 University of Illinois. of charge, for the instruction of the students. Lectures are given on Veterinary Sanitary Science and the Principles and Practice of Veterinary Surgery. Students desiring to pursue the study of Veterinary Science further than is laid down in the agricultural course, will find ample facilities for so doing. LABORATORY WORK. Experiments and special investigations by each student. A Thesis is required, embodying the results of original observation and research. For details as to the study or Botany, Chemistry, Zoology, Entomology, Geology, and Meteorology, see statements in Colleije of Natural Science. APPARATUS. The College has for the illustration of practical agriculture, a Stock Farm of 400 acres, provided with a large stockbarn fitted up with stables, pens, yards, etc.; also an Experimental Farm of 180 acres, furnished with all necessary apparatus to illustrate the problems of breeding and feeding. It has fine specimens of neat cattle, Short-Horns, Herefords, Holsteins, and Jerseys; Berkshire and Poland-China Swine; and Shropshiredown, Southdown, and Cotswold Sheep. The experimental Department exhibits field experiments, in the testing of the different varieties and modes of culture of field crops, and in the comparison and treatment of soils. It includes experiments in agriculture and horticulture, under the direction of the Professors of Agriculture and Horticulture, and experiments in feeding animals of different ages and development, upon the various kinds of food. In common with similar departments in the several Agricultural Colleges of the country, it attempts to create positive knowledge towards the development of an agricultural science. The barn on the Stock Farm has north and west fronts of 80 feet each. Each limb, or L, is 40 feet wide. It is of the kind known as the hill-side barn. The barn on the Experimental Farm is of less size, but is fitted up with great convenience, and is supplied with a large windmill which furnishes power for grinding feed, and for other purposes.
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