. Bulletin. Agricultural experiment stations -- United States; Agriculture -- United States. 40 adaptability, uses of the several farm crops, and the best method of producing' them are ; In the second term of the junior year the student amy elect '' agri- cultural ; In this course one hour per day is given to lectures and individual work on the part of the student on the experiment station work and literature of this and other countries, the organization and work of the United States Department of Agri- culture, methods of experimentation, and the principles u
. Bulletin. Agricultural experiment stations -- United States; Agriculture -- United States. 40 adaptability, uses of the several farm crops, and the best method of producing' them are ; In the second term of the junior year the student amy elect '' agri- cultural ; In this course one hour per day is given to lectures and individual work on the part of the student on the experiment station work and literature of this and other countries, the organization and work of the United States Department of Agri- culture, methods of experimentation, and the principles underlying the same. Each student is required in closing up the term's work to outline an experiment along some practical line of live stock, dairy- ino-, soils, or crops, and to submit the outline to the class for criticism and discussion. The experimentation is continued during the third term two hours per day. For example, the student electing an experi-. Flti. 2.—Tubes of galviini/.ud iron used to study L-tlwtiveiK'ss ol inulclu-s upon moisture losses. ment in agronomy, such as tests of forage crop mixtures, variety tests of field crops, fertilizer experiments, is allotted the necessary land, furnished team, implements, seed, and is required to carry through his experiment and report upon it. ''The object of this work is twofold. To the young man going- back to the farm it gives a training which enables him at once to pass upon the merits of any line of work described in station literature and to appropriate that portion of it which may be of value to himself; to the young man going into technical fields it gives a training which should give strength and reliability to his ; In the senior year an elective in soil physics is offered. In this course ten hours per week during the first term are devoted to lectures and laboratory work, embracing a study of the physical properties and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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