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Title: Annual catalogue of the Agricultural College of the State of Oregon for ... and announcements for ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Oregon State Agricultural College
Subjects: Oregon State Agricultural College
Publisher: Corvallis, Or. : Agricultural College Printing Service
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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dies of mathematics,economics, physics, history, language and other culturalbranches, all of which broaden the course of study and tendto elevate the educated farmer to the intellectual level ofother professions. The college laboratories are strictly modern in their ap-pointments and are supplied with up-to-date equipments,which aflford the student unusual opportunities for makinga thorough study of all the sciences related to agriculture. While the theory of agriculture, as based upon the sciences,is being taught, the industrial side is not overlooked. In-struction is given in wood and iron working in the carpenterand blacksmith shops under competent supervision. Thestudent is also taught how to handle and care for steammachinery, and is made thoroughly familiar with the mech-anism of the farm traction engine. The instruction given in the class-room is directly sup-plemented by actual demonstrations of the best agriculturalpractice on the college farm, thus giving to the student an B
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13- Hcrticultural Hall. 15. Armory, n- Heating Plant and Power House. AGRICULTURE. 67 opportunity to observe the methods employed, and enablinghim to note from time to time the results of the praeticalapplications of science to agricultural methods. The college and station farm consists of 199 acres, 140 ofwhich are devoted to farm crops, ))asture, and experimentalpurposes. The farm is equipped with dairy building, hoise-barn, cattle-barn, silos, piggery, tool-house, engine-house,etc., and with typical specimens of several breeds of stock. Students laboring on the farm and in the gardens, receivefrom 12^^ to 20 cents per hour. Only comparatively fewpersons can be so employed, as the amount of work to bedone is limited. Those only who by their work prove tobe valuable laborers will be employed. DAIRYING. One of the purposes of the Oregon Agricultural College isto advance the business industries of the state. It is be-lieved that dairying is one of the most important lines ofwork that c

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