Repository: UIHistories Project: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913) [PAGE 18]

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treat of draina and irrij ttion and fertil and the i tut ion of crops and of farm machinery, eh Tin h trees, particularly fruit bearing tre< and paj no I attention to ornamental tret , and t > land < in and architecture, \< otahh and (lowi < find pla in their courses, Tin department <•' tnimal husbandry teaching the propn ttion, ire, treatment and 10 estic animals. The department ol lirv husbandry teachiii , bj theorj and demons! rat ion, the pre parat ion <

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south window you x ill see t ho hams with \ iinons of Moi an ho L a roat family whioh tho Snivel itv is strivinj bo recover, and j u may Bee hundn iir\ ind boot* cattle, includin the Shorthorn. Jersey, Avreshin

Guernsey and Hoist oin families.as choice • an\ in tho « un-

try. Specimens are led into the stock jud ing i md stairs where the] may be Btudi< I delil atelj and with comfort.

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Out of this window, too, we maj Bee parts of th S nth Farm of Tour hundred acres of garden lands \\ hich the I ni« versity owns and ivesover to the great work i ricul tural experimentation, Tho United States \ ricultural (experiment Station is housed here. In the last two j arIllinois has put a hundred thousand dollars into the work of this station, And with her agricultural interests well he may, It has boon proved here that you can han^o the chemi * constituents of corn by selection, Wl 1 to -n estimate the value of that boaStuto with a rn cron of 5^000,000 bushels, the lai t by tar in the >unti > '

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Here is bhe department of household science it j not a cooking Bchool, but i place where the house,—it design and decoration and equipment ana satVt M u J I. dthfulness and conveniences, the food,—its production ii>ai,\ is, adapt ion ^ preparation,^ where ^o\ ^rythim;^ r *' adaptation, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ated i,» home makin and family life is scientiticalb tudied, Dhisii the onl} University in the count™ -'