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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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EQUIPMENT 137 meat and samples of wool, judges a great variety of animals, and has practice in diagnosing and treating their diseases. EQUIPMENT The College keeps on deposit from the largest manufacturers thousands of dollars worth of plows, cultivators, planters, cutters, shellers, grinders, mowers, binders, engines, etc. It has extensive collections of agricultural plants and seeds and their products. A laboratory is well equipped with apparatus for the study of» soil physics and bacteriology. The grounds of the University and the fields and orchards of the Experiment Station are always available for illustration in class work. An illustrative series of colored casts of fruit and enlarged models of fruits and flowers, collections of seeds and woods, cabinets of beneficial and noxious insects with specimens of their work, photographs, maps, charts, drawings, lantern slides,—all afford valuable material for study and illustration. Specimens of Morgan horses; Shorthorn, Jersey, and Holstein-Friesian cattle; Shropshire, Merino, and Dorset sheep, and Berkshire swine afford material for judging, which, however, is vastly increased by loans from prominent herds. In the dairy department is a complete outfit for a milk-testing laboratory and for cream separation and butter and cheese making. The department of veterinary science owns a collection illustrating materia medica, a collection of pathological specimens illustrating special abnormal bony development, and a papier mache model of a horse, capable of dissection, and showing every important detail of structure. In addition are levels, lanterns, microscopes, and cameras, an extensive list of agricultural journals, a complete file of experiment station bulletins from all the states, and an excellent assortment of standard reference books, including nearly all the pedigree registers published.
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