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Page 47 - ... adjuncts which set forth the final purpose, is to educate the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. In accepting the congressional grant the State of Iowa accepted the conditions it imposes, and the Trustees had no alternative but to fulfill these conditions in an honest and liberal spirit. If the objects of the institution are to teach the branches that are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, then the leading courses should be largely composed of these...
Page 47 - An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful...
Page 46 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 8 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 162 - ... To the President and Members of the Missouri State Board of Horticulture: Gentlemen. — I beg leave to submit the following exhibit of the financial transactions of the Board of Horticulture in detail, for the period beginning December 31, 1909, and ending January 10, 1911. This shows there was no balance in the hands of the Treasurer at the beginning of the period, but that the sum of $207.43 remained in his keeping on January 10, 1911. This report also accounts for all warrants drawn upon...
Page 108 - ... packing was done by patting with a hoe, using a sharp stroke, while those not packed were left as covered with the rake. The time of determining the relative thickness of the plants, was about ten days after the first plants appeared above the ground. Vegetable Garden, No. 12, Planting Seeds, 1875. — The object of this experiment was to determine the relative value of loose or compact soil, as a bed under seeds. Contiguous rows were planted with lettuce, radishes, flat turnips and onions, part...
Page 32 - MONEY AND VALUABLES. Students may, if they desire, deposit money and other valuables with the Treasurer for safe keeping. While the College authorities will do all in their power to recover lost articles, and to prevent and punish theft, the College cannot be responsible for such losses or thefts from the persons or rooms of students.
Page 178 - May, 1888, the committee on horticulture submitted the following report, which was adopted: To the Board of Trustees...
Page 31 - ... other incidental expenses as specially belong to them as a body. Students pay nothing for tuition or room rent, nor for the general expenses of the College. Damages to college property will be charged to the person damaging the same when known, but if its author is undiscovered it will be assessed upon the section where it occurs, or upon the whole school. Students supply themselves with pillows and other bedding, with towels, and with carpets if they desire them. They supply themselves also...
Page 87 - Five lots of pigs were selected, as nearly uniform as could be taken from a lot of fifty. Three pigs were put in each pen. " The pigs were all of Berkshire blood. They were placed in floored pens, and given nothing but their regular allowance of food, with all the water they would drink. " The corn was all shelled and weighed. During the months of July and August, each lot consumed fifteen bushels of corn, or the same amount ground into meal. The pigs were carefully weighed each week, and a complete...