Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 138]

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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

of fruits, vegetables, and forage crops from corresponding latitudes in various parts of the world. The methods employed and the results secured are freely used for instruction. This is the more readily accomplished because for the most part the instructors are also in charge of the experiments. The ornamental grounds which surround the University buildings contain about twenty acres, and are kept neat and attractive. 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 value to the classes in floriculture and landscape gardening. 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 specimens and preparations; photographs, maps, charts, diagrams, drawings, etc. The college has a supply of compound microscopes and other apparatus, and students have opportunity to learn their use and to make practical investigations with them. The herbarium is rich in specimens of useful and noxious plants, including many of the fungous parasites which cause disease to cultivated crops. Agriculture is beginning to have a literature, and the library contains a large collection of works on agriculture by standard authors in English, French, and German; also reports of agricultural departments of this and other countries, journals of agricultural societies, both in America and abroad, besides nearly all the standard agricultural periodicals of the United States and many from Europe and Australia. The student not only has free access to this literature, but is constantly assigned reference readings as a part of his class work. In work other than the purely technical, the agricultural