The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-04
STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Tho Scientific Departments


For the benefit Of young men who do
not desire to pursue a tull course Of liberal
studies before entering on The work Of
special preparation for q profession, the
university has provided several courses
which are partly liberal aud partly profes-
sional, that is TO say. courses in which
scientific training and literary culture are
combined with technical instruction.
TIE COURSE IN AGRICULTURE.
This course starting from a basis of
mathematics, which is necessarily funda-
mental to all science, follows the full circle
of the physical and experimental sciences,
chemistry, physics, botany, zoology, ply
siology, meteorology, metallurgY, miner
alogy and geology. II is especially full in
the departments of chemistry, botany, 70
ology ard physiology An amply equipped
laboratory gives all the needed facilities
for the analysis Of minerals, soils, fertiiiZ-
ers, mineral waters, etc, and q glance at
the synoptlcal table will snow that provision
is made for large amount of practical
work by the individual student in this high
| " important branch. In the studies which
| relate to vegetable and animal life, the
means are at hand for giving practical in
struction in the law ana conditions of
health and growth i'll plants and animals,
their diseases and enemies, the principles Of
naturalization and breeding, the processes
| of budding and grating, the characteristics
and cultivation Of the various cereals, for-
est trees, etc, etc. Arrangements have
been made by which hereafter u series Of
lectures on Veterinary science ard practice
will be given as often as may he needed.
| This course prepares young men either for
| conducting the scientific experiments which
| a more enlightened agriculture is beginning
| TO require and which will protitably occupy
| an increasing corps OF men in the next gen.
| Grafton, or tor entering upon The work Of
| farming with a scientific knowledge which
| experience will soon turn to protitsble ac-
count. With these professional studies in
| the agricultural course are mingloa studies
which qualify the man and the citizen for
taking his part and enjoying his share Of
| influence ia social and public life, studies
which train him 10 use his tongue aud his
pen offectualIy, studies in history, IN polit-
| zeal economy, in the French and German
languages without some knowledge of
which "a man, in our day, can scarcely be
called educated. For all this work. every
| part OF winch keSllls tsstu'lal " a lHOiOuSu
| education in the department of agriculture,
a full course of four years is obviously
| short enough and we strongly advise against
any abridgment Of it. We are willing,
however 10 meet tire case of those who,
! for sufficient or insufficient reasons, choose
| to content Themselves with only part OF
| the full course We especially encourage
| young men who cannot leave the farm dur
| ing the working season to take up certain
studies and pursue them during successive
winters, say from the first of November to
the FIST Of Muy. Stclr n cotttso followed
out for four or five winters would accom-
plish much for the young farmer. We in
vite correspondence on this subject.
On one point 1t may be well 10 say
word. 1t has been asserted that Farmers
sons, or young men studying agricultural
science, in university, side by side with
others pursuing classical or literary studies,
will be under sort of ban of interiorliy.
| Nothing could be more absurd than such
| notion, at least as regards this university,
| in which large number of the students
| are and have always been farmers sons,
and In which democraCtic equality pre-
| walls to degree unknown 10 Tue outside
world If students are sometimes con-
ceted, it is toward those without, never to-
ward those within.
| 1t is to be noted, also, that we have not
here an independent agricultural college
| by the side Of another institution, but one
university of which all the studnnts ara
alike members, those belonging 20 lie diff
| ferent departments often Ieciling in the
same classes, and all sharing its privileges