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Petitions to Congress 35TH 445 ( MIS. DOC. ] No. 202. CONGBESS, ) 1st Session. \ SENATE. MEMORIAL OF THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IOWA, PRAYING A donation of land for the purpose of establishing scientific agricultural schools in that State. MARCH 17, 1858.—Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR A GRANT OF LAND FOR THE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE, To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Your memorialists, the general assembly of the State of Iowa, respectfully represent in your honorable body that the farmers of the State of Iowa are exceedingly desirous to establish a scientific agricultural college and schools for the purpose of giving freely to all a profound knowledge of the great truths and fundamental principles of nature, whereby all may become fully acquainted with the properties of the earth, the vegetable kingdom, and the peculiar adaptation of plants to certain soils, and likewise to obtain a complete knowledge of animals, that their stock may be brought to the highest state of perfection. Your memorialists sincerely believe that, by conferring this great privilege upon the respectable portion of community, you would thereby add greatly to the interests of all branches of industry, by bringing rapidly to perfection, and increasing, the products of the farmer. Your memorialists would further say, that as it has been a practice of your honorable body to make munificent grants of land for the endowment of schools and universities; and that in all cases the interest of that class of community which is generally
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