These Fifty Years: A History of the College of Agriculture of the University of NebraskaUniversity of Nebraska, College of Agriculture, Experiment Station, 1925 - 196 pages |
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... cultural Society started a subscription which resulted in the establishment of a professorship of natural history at Harvard University in 1804. The will of Benjamin Bussey of Roxbury , Mass . , proved in 1842 , bequeathed half of the ...
... cultural Society started a subscription which resulted in the establishment of a professorship of natural history at Harvard University in 1804. The will of Benjamin Bussey of Roxbury , Mass . , proved in 1842 , bequeathed half of the ...
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... cultural College , which had been established a few years before . In Massachusetts the money was given partly to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partly to an institution created for the purpose of affording agri- cultural ...
... cultural College , which had been established a few years before . In Massachusetts the money was given partly to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partly to an institution created for the purpose of affording agri- cultural ...
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... cultural College . The Act of February 15 , 1869 provided " that there shall be established in this state an institution under the name and style of " The University of Nebraska . ' The object of such institution shall be to afford to ...
... cultural College . The Act of February 15 , 1869 provided " that there shall be established in this state an institution under the name and style of " The University of Nebraska . ' The object of such institution shall be to afford to ...
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... history suggested the holding of farmers ' institutes , the first instance of agri- cultural extension instruction in Nebraska and a movement which in forty years was to grow to unusual pretensions 18 THESE FIFTY YEARS.
... history suggested the holding of farmers ' institutes , the first instance of agri- cultural extension instruction in Nebraska and a movement which in forty years was to grow to unusual pretensions 18 THESE FIFTY YEARS.
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... cultural chemistry . These lectures were very well attended . In general it is our intention to furnish instruction in any department of agricultural instruction which may be demanded , without , for the present , insisting on regular ...
... cultural chemistry . These lectures were very well attended . In general it is our intention to furnish instruction in any department of agricultural instruction which may be demanded , without , for the present , insisting on regular ...
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acres agri Agricul Agricultural College agricultural course agricultural education agricultural extension agricultural group agronomy alfalfa altho animal appropriation associated Bachelor of Science became began Board of Regents botany bugs Bulletin catalog published cattle Chancellor Benton charge college farm College of Agriculture corn county agent course in agricultural course of study crops dairy building Davisson Department of Agriculture diseases Doctor Bessey domestic science E. A. Burnett enrollment entomology erected established experimental extension service faculty farm campus farmers funds girls graduated high school home economics horticulture included Industrial College instruction irrigation June Legislature Lincoln mechanic arts ment nomics North Platte North Platte River North Platte Station number of students organization period poultry practical Prof Professor Bruner professor of agriculture Professor Thompson resigned School of Agriculture School of Domestic seed short course soils substation sugar beet superintendent thru tion ture United States Department University of Nebraska versity winter wheat women
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Page 142 - Act shall be construed to discontinue either the farm management work or the farmers' cooperative demonstration work as now conducted by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture. Sec. 2. That cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities, and imparting to such persons information on said subjects through...
Page 49 - ... varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such...
Page 10 - The object of the University of Idaho shall be to provide the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of learning connected with scientific, industrial, and professional pursuits...
Page 49 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the...
Page 5 - First, that the public lands of most value were being rapidly dissipated by donations to merely local and private objects, where one State alone might be benefited at the expense of the property of the Union. Second, that the very cheapness of our public lands, and the facility of purchase and transfer, tended to a system of bad-farming or strip and waste of the soil, by encouraging short occupancy and a speedy search for new homes, entailing upon the first and older settlements a rapid deterioration...
Page 49 - ... series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation ; the analysis of soils and water ; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds ; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants ; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals ; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese ; and such...
Page 143 - One-third in the ratio which the area of each State bears to the total area of all the States ; one-third in the ratio which the rural population of each State bears to the total rural population of all the States...
Page 9 - July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by expressing the acceptance therein required within three years from the date of its admission into the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after such acceptance, as prescribed in this act...
Page 142 - ... passage of this act may, in the absence of prior legislative assent, be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the Secretary of -the Treasury.
Page 149 - ... Nebraska experiment station and college of agriculture, and also such general studies and farm practices as may be made by him in the course of his work, with the view of carrying to the farmers of the county or community on their own farms, the most successful and productive methods in agriculture. He shall aid in the organization and direction of agriculture in the county where he is employed, and shall cooperate with agricultural clubs and other associations and organizations whose object...