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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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90 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. AIMS AND SCOPE. The College of Agriculture offers a course especially strong in chemistry, botany, zoology, physiology, and bacteriology, and in which both agriculture and horticulture are taught from a scientific basis, always with regard to successful practice. The aim is to discuss and teach the principles that underlie these two great arts. Besides affording special preparation for a technical pursuit it is hoped that this course will commend itself to all lovers of rural life and its affairs in offering the means of keeping pace with the increasing desire for higher learning and better equipment on the part of American citizens of all classes. To give scope for individual preferences one full study is made elective after the freshman year. This insures the uninterrupted pursuit of the other two and affords the opportunity to elect by courses, if desired. METHODS OP INSTRUCTION. Instruction in the sciences is largely by laboratory work, supplemented by lectures, text books, and reference readings, and laboratory methods are regarded as peculiarly suited to the other subjects of the course, and to the needs of those who pursue them. The effort throughout is to teach technical principles and practices in the light of the most profound truths known*to science. The college takes a high position in regard to the standing of the subject and the needs of the students. Reference readings are almost constantly prescribed in standard .volumes and periodicals with which the library is most liberally supplied. For purposes of illustration liberal use is made of experimental fields, live stock, buildings, and apparatus, as well as of the University grounds and cabinet collections. EQUIPMENT. The Agricultural Experiment Station, with a farm of 170 acres and suitable buildings, exhibits field experiments in testing the different varieties, and modes of culture, of field crops, and in the comparison and treatment of soils. It carries on experiments in agriculture, horticulture, dairying, and in feeding animals of different ages and development upon the various kinds of food. In common with similar departments in the sev-
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