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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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EQUIPMENT 135 is essentially scientific rather than literary, and it is believed that the sciences afford a favorable field for the development of the higher faculties of the mind. Yet the College is mindful of the fundamental character of history, literature, and political science as training studies, and reasonable attention to these subjects is required. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION Instruction is by laboratory work, supplemented by text-books, lectures, and reference readings, which are almost constantly assigned from standard volumes and periodicals. Laboratory methods of study are regarded as -peculiarly suited to the subjects of this course and the needs of its students, and a liberal equipment has been provided for students' use and for purposes of illustration. EQUIPMENT The equipment for the technical work of the course is increasing rapidly. The department of agricultural physics is fitting up laboratories for investigation in soil physics and in mechanical analysis of soils. The dairy department is equipped with a plant for laboratory work in testing, pasteurizing, separating, creaming, and churning, and for investigation in dairy bacteriology. For illustration and practice in expert judging, the College owns a stud of Morgan horses, herds of Jersey, Shorthorn, and Holstein-Friesian cattle and a choice flock of Shropshires. The department of veterinary science is provided with a model of the horse in papier mach/, capable of dissection into nearly one hundred parts. There are also natural specimens illustrating nearly every disease of bone to which the horse is subject. The College makes free use of the extensive fields, orchards, and gardens in which the Agricultural Experiment Station conducts experiments in methods of culture, effect of various practices upon yield and upon fertility, varieties
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