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Delano the act providing for the acceptance Agriculof the land scrip passed. It was not until Educa1870, however, that a law was passed to tion establish such a college and 1873 before it was ready for students.

In 1890 Senator Morrill introduced and secured the passage of the act whereby an annual appropriation out of the proceeds of the public lands was made to each state for the further endowment of the agricultural colleges, made possible by the act of 1862. In 1870 the legislature passed a law for the establishment of an agricultural college, a board of trustees was appointed, a farm purchased, buildings erected and a faculty chosen. The new college was located at Columbus, Ohio, and was named the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. In May, 1878, the General Assembly changed the name to Ohio State University, "probably thinking that the new name better expressed the character of the institution having so many departments." Since 1892 the tide has strongly turned in favor of agricultural education and a wonderful development has resulted. The College of Agriculture and Domestic Sci

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Agricul- ence of the Ohio State University has tural increased in enrollment from thirty-one to one hundred and sixty-one students in the last six years of its existence. Townshend Hall, a memorial to the public services and work of Dr. N. S. Townshend in advancing the cause of agricultural education, was dedicated January 12, 1898, for the use of agricultural education in the state. It was completed at a cost of $115,000 and is the finest building devoted to agricultural instruction in the world.

Agricultural education is a new idea but in full harmony with the fundamental principles of civilization and the elevation of the laboring class. The nations of antiquity built their civilization upon the degradation of labor, but we are building ours upon its exaltation. The farmers of Ohio can congratulate themselves upon the abundant and generous opportunity for the education of their children. In the training in agriculture at the Ohio State University the student studies the soil, is taught to analyze the soil; studies its physical properties, finds the number and size of the grains in the soil. He finds from this study that

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the exterior surfaces of the minute particles Agriculin a cubic foot of soil may equal three Educaacres, and that soils differ largely in this tion particular, and the power of crop production depends in a measure upon this fact. He finds for himself that an important difference between the soil and the rock is the fact that the rock is solid and that one half the space in the soil may be unoccupied by soil particles. The student is taught the use of fertilizers and how to calculate their value. Is taught the manner and methods of drainage and irrigation, and of tillage, and of the effect and use of various farm implements upon such processes. The history, use, and culture, climate and soil, adaptation, harvesting and marketing various varieties of farm crops, are carefully studied. Kinds, care, and management of livestock are taught. The student is taught the characteristics that each class of animals should possess for special purposes; and by means of score cards the students are taught to judge the various classes of livestock. The student is taught the principles of breeding and mating animals, and is taught to understand and properly inter

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