The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-02-03

Professors cannot the teaching
its premises and the college farm instead
being model for wekpt establishments probably
demned as unsantary by modern board of health
The general plan of the agriculture given
the State Agricultural College similar many agr
cultural colleges 1t consists required during
and suggests of electives for the last Three
general lines of instruction Indicated O agrnomy
culture % animal husbandy and dang 90 the teaching of agr
culture.
who are prepared
take college education and to become professional ag
culture from this point great
educational Thus given
chemistry the freshman and in the sophomore full
botany with somewhat shorter zoology These
the of providing him with solid scientific foundation
which be erected of scientific agriculture
superstructe afterwards erected scientific but
pca could almost well without the burden of these
preliminary them important
agronomy hafyear given
INSTRUCTOR work horticulture but slightly related
the preceding biological fomdaons husbandry given
junior year. although preceded zoology admitted
frankly empirical similar given in the freshman of
other agricultural colleges
that entirely scientific
Such given of the agricultural
the other hand agriculture that almost
exclusively empirical be desirable They appeal to different
attain different object The kind of
however that hard to defend that
illustrated in the of the University of Vermont in which the
student carried through preliminary scientific training and then given
agricultural could be carried well without this
preliminary scientific requirement
agricultural nadequay adjusted
that preceded Them but there is great
agricultural whether upon scientific basis
empirical who elects the
horticulture agronomy his sophomore full
management and for semester
grasses plants In his junior he
hreehou field but he
plant pathology This is absolutely all the work the
offers student who specazes in this subject
at Agricultural College 1t would not be regarded all sufficient
a colleges of agriculture
coordination between the two parts of the agru
college indicates that the University of Vermont has
yet seriously itself consider what function its Agricultural
College perform school for elementary instruction
agriculture will need the fundamental sciences in its cucu
it to be institution for training in scientific agriculture
these fundamental sciences but also
agricultural strictly technical and to offer the
uny good library technical agricultural literature In the
College conducted these two divergent
agricultural education combined such fulfill neither
purpose requiring the high school standard for
prescribing the fundamental sciences in the first
itself off the farm boy who
order to return to work the farm By
making agricultural empirical rather than technical it has
those students who wish thorough scientific training
in modern agriculture.
striking absence of the familiar agricultural
For example work entomology beyond
tempt professor of zoology the College of Arts
his Introductory much entomology
possible If the student good fundamental training
zoology essential the scientific study of technical ag
culture impossible this make entomology anything
beyond a bare outline