Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1895-1896 [PAGE 119]

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EQUIPMENT

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EQUIPMENT The student in agriculture and horticulture receives instruction in the same classes with other students of the University, and thus enjoys all the advantages of the excellent laboratories and apparatus of the science departments. The equipment of the agricultural department has been materially increased by recent purchases of some excellent specimens of both cattle and sheep from some of the best breeders of the United States. A small building has been fitted to accommodate a limited number of students in certain lines of dairy instruction, notably in pasteurizing, testing, separating, creaming, churning, etc. 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 various kinds of food to animals of different ages and development. In common with similar departments in the several agricultural colleges of the country, it attempts to make positive additions to knowledge, and to further the development of agricultural science. The extensive fruit and forest tree plantations give abundant opportunity for studies and illustrations in many horticultural lines, and add greatly to the effectiveness of class-room work. The ornamental grounds which surround the University buildings contain about twenty acres, and are kept in neat and attractive style. These, with their trees and flowering shrubs, lawns, beds of flowers and foliage plants, walks and drives of different construction and styles, furnish illustrations for the classes in landscape gardening. A greenhouse contains a collection of plants of great value to the classes in floriculture and landscape gardening, besides furnishing students with practice in greenhouse management. The cabinets contain a series of colored casts of fruits, enlarged models of fruits and flowers; collections of seeds of native and exotic plants, of specimens of native and foreign woods, of beneficial and injurious insects, and of specimens showing their work; numerous dry and alcoholic