Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-02-04

entire charge of the farm He thus directed the
the College and Experiment Station being
Professors cannot the farm aid teaching
its premises and the college of
being model for weIkept establishments would probably be
demned as unsanary by any modern board of health
The general plan of the professional curicula agriculture given
the State Agricultural College similar to that agr
cultural colleges It consists of required during the
years. ana suggests groups OIL ec Tor the last TWO years. Three
lines of instruction Indicated CD agronomy
2) animal husbandy daiying 60 teaching agr
culture
thus prepared
college education and to become agr
culture 1t has, however, from this point of very great
weaknesses Thus the student
the freshman the sophomore
with zoology
for the providing him with solid
upon which be erected uperstruure of agriculture
but the supersrucure afterwards erected not scientific but
pica 1t could be almost we'll without the
preliminary scientific with them The important subject
agronomy restricted single haear given
by INSTRUCTOR slightly related to
the preceding biological foundations the animal husbandry
junior year, preceded by zoology
frankly empirical similar the freshman
other agricultural colleges.
agricultural college curriculum that entirely may
defense the agricultural
schools On the other hand in agriculture that almost
exclusively empirical be desirable They appeal different
Of students and seek to attain different object The kind
coeg curriculum however, nat seems nara TO oe1en tnat
illustrated in the of the University of Vermont which the
carried through preliminary scientific training
direct agricultural studies that could be carried we'll without this
preliminary scientific requirement.
only agricultural nadequatey adjusted
the scientific that has preceded hem but there
lack Of agricultural work. whether given scientific basis
empirical basis The student who elects the
and horticulture has agronomy, his sophomore full
ester soils and soil management and for semester
hour and forage plants In his junior he
field crops may
elect instead plant pathology This absolutely all the work the
offers to student who specia this subject
Agricultural College, would not be regarded all sufficient
at colleges of agriculture.
parts agru
college indicates that the University of Vermont has
yet seriously itself to consider what function it's Agricultural
College perform it becomes school for elementary instruction
agriculture will not need the fundamental sciences it's curric
institution for training scientific agriculture
necessary have these fundamental but also
agricultural strictly technical and to offer the
good library of technical agricultural literature In the
Agricultural College conducted these two divergent
agricultural education combined such fulfill neither
purpose requiring the high school standard for
prescribing the fundamental the first
the school cuts itself off from serving the farm boy who
instruction to the farm By
making agricultural empirical rather than technical has
those students who wish thorough scientific training
n modern agriculture.
striking absence of the familiar agricultural
example, there work in entomology beyond at
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