Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-21

and application ofthe laws Of agricul-
tural chemistry. physics, physiology,
the relations ul soils 10 vegetation, and
Of fertilizers and moisture 10 both, cult.
walton rotation. and marketing OF crops,
together with the care OF farm buildings
and inn cncnis. and the breeding and
mauagtmlnt of stock. Theoretical
instruction is supplemented illustrated
and enforced b. actual practice on a
iatm of one hundred acres, with modern
buildings. implements. and the best
breeds Of animals. This farm is sup.
posed 10 be managed according TO the
best methods, so mat The students who
rightly use Their opportunities may gam
the most essential knowledge and skin
IN most Of the detai.s-the fundamentals
Of farming.
The departments Of botany, horticul.
turc, chemistry, physics, biology, animal
industry veterinary science. are directly
contubufofy 20 the science oil agriculture.
Each has rs line laboratory and rs val.
liable appafatu, Tor illustrating. The
horticultural department, has is eXperi.
mental gardens and forcing house to
Illustrate class room Instruction The
animal industry department has iis
farms with nlcks and herds, and is
daily house with al the facilities for
making butter and cheese. The vctcr.
mary department has its collection Of
anatomical and physiological specimens,
lbs museum, disscciing room and Oper.
atlug room. The chemical and physical
departments have their laboratories
where gases, liquids, solids, minerals,
soils, foods, anything compound, may
be tfusrworthily aniIyzed into iis ulti.
mate elements and other proportions.
Here students may not only see the
instructor Illustrate the principles in the
lecture, but they themselves may repeat,
vary. and verify his work. This Is also
true OF the work aud the equipment Ia
the other natural science departments.
II will be seen that hoeipg corn and
sprouting potatoes do not constitute all
the instruction IN /atHiHg
But there are several other courses Of
study besides the agricultural course.
The giant Of land from the United States
contemplated the endowment support.
and maintenance Of at least one college
whose leading object shall be, without
excluding other classical and scientific
studies. and including military tactics, to
teach such branches as are allied to
agriculture aud the mechanic arts.
Instruction In the mechanic arts is,
under the terms Of the grant, as impefa-
tive as In agriculture. The promoters
Of the land grant were In advance OF the
general public sentiment Is leading
spirits saw that Ia tue near future, in.
dusitial training In oil iis phases would
be a potent factor IN our system e
education. and that as the mechanical
industries grew, instruction IN the
mechanic arts would become com.
modify Of lively demand IL has been
so for nearly decade. In colleges al
os ct the country some Of the brightest
minds have been dcyoilng themselves 10
this ncW line OF work Continental
Europe, much our senior Ia these in
du,tties, long ago say the necessity for
this kind Of education, and for hall a
century has been giving special attention
10 archaeological schools, and forward.
ing the sciences underlying all the
industries. The result has been astonish.
ing. England, once as Imperial a mistress
Of the industrial world as OF the com.
mcfcial world, became alarmed At the
competition Oi nations that Tor decades
htd been her greatest purchasers. In.
yestigaton showed that ability to
compete with her In manufactures, was
attributable TO the schools OF technology,
aud mechanic arts, winch other nations
had had the foresight TO establish, more