BOTANICAL HALL AND CONSERVATORY. 
 
 ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 School of Agriculture 
 
 COI*UtyTBUS, OHIO. 
 
 DECEMBER, 1893. 
 
 s 
 
 GRICULTURAL EDUCATOR 
 
 Of THE 
 
 WlHSITIt 9F IUikqis, 
 
 AT THE 
 
 Ohio State University 
 
 AS SET FORTH BY THE 
 
©fye 5 acu lty Committee of tfye School of 
 4 - (Agriculture -f 
 
 President W. H. SCOTT, M. A., LL. D., Chairman, Professor of Philosophy. 
 WM. R. LAZENBY, M. Agr., Secretary, . . Professor of Horticulture. 
 
 S. W. ROBINSON, C. E., . . . Professor of Mechanical Engineering. 
 
 H. A. WEBER, Ph. D., . . . . Professor of Agricultural Chemistry. 
 
 H. J. DETMERS, M. Y. I)., . . . Professor of Veterinary Medicine. 
 D. S. KELLICOTT, Ph. I)., . Professor of Zoology and Entomology. 
 
 A. M. BLEILE, M. D., . . . Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. 
 
 W. A. KELLERMAN, Ph. D., . . Professor of Botany and Forestry. 
 
 T. F. HUNT, M. Sc.,.Professor of Agriculture. 
 
 £t?e (Officers of tfye (Association of Students of 
 tt)e School of (Agriculture, ©. 5. II. 
 
 Sherman Hood, President, .... Meander, Trumbull County, Ohio. 
 W. E. Leonard, Vice President, . . . Morrow, Warren County, Ohio. 
 
 C. E. Spiers, Becording Secretary, . . Atwater, Portage County, Ohio. 
 
 S. D. Ayers, Corresponding Secretary, . Hartsgrove, Ashtabula County, Ohio. 
 P. L. Pfarr, Treasurer, .... Minersville, Meigs County, Ohio. 
 
 D. A. Crowner, Librarian, . . Wellsville, Allegheny County, New York. 
 
 M. G. Aumend, Historian, .... Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio. 
 C. W. Burkett, Sergeant-at-Arms, . . Thornville, Perry County, Ohio. 
 
 Executive Corornittee. 
 
 C. E. Spiers, Chairman, .... Atwater, Portage County, Ohio. 
 
 H. H. Loomis, .Deerfield, Portage County, Ohio. 
 
 W. B. Evans, .Newark, Licking County, Ohio 
 
 Prirjtir}^ Corr)ir)ittee. 
 
 F. P. Stump, Chairman, . . . 0. S. U., Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. 
 
 L. M. Bloomfield, .Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. 
 
 M. M. Rarick, .Thornville, Perry County, Ohio. 
 
Tf>e Students’ flssociatioi) 
 
 J^bovt three years ago, a number of the more earnest and energetic farmer 
 72 boys who were agricultural students at this institution, not feeling 
 satisfied with the progress being made in their state in higher agricul¬ 
 tural education, met at the call of one of their number and “put their heads 
 together” to ascertain why no deeper interest w’as being manifested in our 
 agricultural college by the farmers and their sons intending to be farmers. 
 
 We saw the university offering a free scholarship each year to each county 
 in the State, good for the short or two years’ course in agriculture. In the three 
 years the offer had been standing, but twenty-six of the eighty-eight counties 
 had made any use whatever of this offer, and many of these twenty-six only in 
 a desultory manner. While, the university was in fact acting more generously 
 toward agriculture than any other calling, we heard and read many bitter things 
 from farmers dation. The 
 
 concerning the 
 institution. 
 
 They told us 
 that the spirit 
 of the univer¬ 
 sity and the 
 atmosphere 
 around it were 
 hostile to agri- 
 culture and 
 drove the ag¬ 
 ricultural stu¬ 
 dent to change 
 his course of 
 study to “some¬ 
 thing consid¬ 
 ered more re¬ 
 fined or ele¬ 
 vated.” W e, 
 as students on 
 the ground, in 
 daily contact 
 with the facts, 
 knew’ these 
 charges to be 
 absolutely 
 without foun- 
 
 Rutherford B. Hayes. 
 
 Former President of Board of Trustees and Chairman of 
 the Farm Committee of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 fact wh i ch 
 seemed most 
 against the in¬ 
 stitution was, 
 that a very 
 small per cent, 
 of the farmers 
 of the state 
 knew’ anything 
 at all about, or 
 at least had a 
 very meager 
 conception of 
 what the uni¬ 
 versity really 
 was, and of its 
 objects and 
 purposes, to 
 say nothing of 
 a knowledge of 
 its facilities 
 and wide edu¬ 
 cational ad¬ 
 vantages. 
 
 After looking 
 carefully over 
 the ground, we 
 
 as young, enthusiastic students, anxious for a large development within our life 
 time of our chosen vocation, decided to band ourselves into an organization and 
 pursue two distinct lines of work. First, to use our organized influence to make 
 the school of agriculture itself the very best in the Union; and, second, to use 
 every means within our power to acquaint the farmers of the state with the exact 
 
 facts concerning that school of agriculture, believing that the progressive spirit 
 and good sense of Ohio farmers would lead them to be enthusiastic in the use of 
 this great school, when they once really appreciated the advantages so gener- 
 
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ously provided for the education of their sons for successful followers of the 
 grandest calling known to men. 
 
 As to the results of our work thus far in the first line, the reader is left to 
 judge for himself as he reads the description of the facilities and work of the 
 various departments. As to the second line of our work, we sought the cause of 
 existing evils. We discovered the existence of the following fundamentally 
 important condition — that while comparatively few farmers indicated by their 
 words, a large majority of them, by their general line of action, showed plainly 
 enough that they had not come to realize the fact that an education is as essen¬ 
 tial to a farmer as to any man in any other business. 
 
 Most farmers, in conversation, would admit this to be true, but their actions 
 were in accord with the old notion that “anybody can farm, and without an 
 education, too.” The facts indicated that the farmers thought “that if their 
 boys were to attend college, they must not be farmers.” In fact, we discovered 
 what ought to have been patent to any observer — that it w r as this old, uneradi¬ 
 cated undercurrent of belief and action among the farmers themselves, and not 
 the university, which “educated the boys from the farm.” 
 
 Our association has mailed thousands of circulars and written hundreds of 
 letters endeavoring to tell the farmer boys of the state the plain truth about this 
 agricultural school, with its immense advantages; and, while the results are 
 highly gratifying, placing our state in the very forefront in this matter of special 
 university training, there are yet thousands of farmers in Ohio wh) do not 
 realize that such a school exists, and we ask the members of the farmers’ insti¬ 
 tutes of Ohio, as representative, progressive farmers, to aid us in the work of 
 bringing the farmers of our state into a full knowledge of the facts concerning 
 this, their school of agriculture. 
 
 fl feuJ uJorcts about ti?e School of floriculture. 
 
 See Outline of Courses of the School of Agriculture, pages 13, 14, and 15. 
 
 W. I. Chamberlain. L. p. Wing. John T. Mack. 
 
 FARM COMMITTEE OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 The Ohio State University is divided into seven schools, alphabetically, the 
 schools of agriculture, arts and philosophy, engineering, law, pharmacy, science, 
 and veterinary medicine. It is the purpose of this article to describe briefly one 
 
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of these schools — the school of agriculture. It may be said, however, in pass¬ 
 ing, that the university has seventy instructors, twenty-five departments of 
 study, nine large buildings devoted to instruction, and about eight hundred 
 students. The lands, buildings, and equipment are estimated to be worth 
 $ 2 , 000 , 000 . 
 
 The school of agriculture offers three courses of study — the short course in 
 agriculture of two years, a four years’ course in agriculture, and a course of 
 similar length in horticulture. 
 
 The first year of the short course is preparatory to the first year of either of 
 the four year courses. At the. end of the first year of the short course, the 
 student has three strings to his bow. He may complete the short course by 
 taking the second year of the course or he may become freshman in either of 
 the full four year courses. 
 
 It is in this short course in agriculture that the board of trustees offers a free 
 scholarship annually to one student from each county of the state of Ohio. As 
 this scholarship is good for two years, there may be two students from each 
 county each year. The second year of the scholarship is good for the freshman 
 year of both the long courses. The scholarship covers all college dues, and is 
 worth, during the two years, about $65. The appointments are made by the 
 county boards of agriculture. The instruction of the university is divided into 
 twenty-five departments, and the head of each of these -departments is a mem¬ 
 ber of the faculty. 
 
 The instruction given by the department of agriculture, or the purely agri¬ 
 cultural work, consists of three branches or courses of study extending through 
 the year. The course of study known officially as agriculture, (1) consists in 
 the fall term of equipment of the farm, including the selection of the farm, its 
 laying out, the construction of its buildings, fences and roads, its water supply, 
 sources of power for farm purposes, the kinds, selection, and use of farm 
 machinery. In the winter term, a special study is made of soils, their origin, 
 kinds, and properties, and their methods of improvement by tillage, fertiliza¬ 
 tion, drainage, and irrigation. In the spring term, a systematic study is made 
 of the principal farm crops. 
 
 The second branch of study consists in the fall term of the breeds of live 
 stock, their history, character, and use. In the winter term the principles of 
 breeding are considered, while in the spring term stock feeding and hygiene is 
 studied. The first of these branches is required in the second year of the short 
 course and in the junior year of the full courses in agriculture and horticulture, 
 while the second is required in the second year of the short course, the same 
 year of the course in veterinary medicine, and in the sophomore year of the full 
 course in agriculture. 
 
 The third branch of technical agricultural work is taught in the senior year 
 of the course in agriculture. It consists in the fall term of a careful study of 
 animal form; in winter term of lectures on dairy husbandry, and in the spring 
 term of lectures on rural economy. This includes the history of agriculture, 
 and considers farming in its commercial aspects rather than from a scientific 
 standpoint. 
 
 Of the 337 acres of university property, about 180 acres may be considered as 
 belong to the farm proper. This is equipped with $5,000 worth of live stock, 
 machinery, and apparatus. This equipment is mostly new, having been pur¬ 
 chased within the past sixteen months. One of the features of this farm is a 
 herd of pure bred and grade Jerseys and Shorthorns The cash receipts during 
 the twelve months ending July 31, from an average of thirty cows, in milk, were 
 $4,059.93. 
 
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As an illustration of the purposes of the farm, there is kept a team each of 
 grade Percheron, Clydesdale, and Cleveland Bay mares. It is expected to add a 
 pair of trotting bred mares. These are being bred to the best attainable sires of 
 the respective breeds. The farm will thus have mature and young animals of 
 the different breeds for comparison. 
 
 The purpose of the farm is educational rather than experimental. Breeds 
 of live stock and varieties of farm crops are raised for the purpose of study by 
 the student, and the experimental work is incidental. The farm is in no sense a 
 model one, and it would not be consistent with its true purpose to attempt to 
 make it so. Neither is it run for the purpose of making money, but to give 
 students an opportunity to study agriculture. 
 
 The department has a large collection of farm products in their various 
 forms and their by-products; such as grains, grasses, wools, cotton, forage plants, 
 
 Scene in Botanical Laboratory. 
 
 and food, stuffs. Much use is also made of charts, pictures, and lantern slides, 
 showing the results of experiments, representative and noted specimens of live 
 stock, farm machinery, fences, buildings, etc. 
 
 The Department of Horticulture begins its instruction with a course of 
 study entitled the Elements of Horticulture and Forestry. General subjects, 
 such as the location for horticultural work, preparation of the soil, drainage, 
 and irrigation, fertilizers, tools, implements and buildings, are discussed. 
 
 The practical work connected therewith is performed in the laboratory, 
 green-house, gardens, ornamental grounds and forest. This course of study is 
 followed by the students in the short course in agriculture and by those in the 
 long courses of both horticulture and agriculture. In the junior year, general 
 horticulture is taken up and such subjects as pomology, viticulture, vegetable 
 gardening, seed growing and small fruit culture are studied. In the senior year, 
 arboriculture, forestry and landscape gardening are treated in the class room 
 
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View in Forcing House— Tomatoes Grown in Winter by Subirrigation Method. 
 
 The former is an adjunct to the Botanical Department, and is devoted to flower¬ 
 ing plants and oxotics The forcing-houses are used for hastening the maturity 
 of vegetables and are attached to the horticultural hall. They are one hundred 
 feet long by twenty in width, and are heated by hot water. 
 
 One new and interesting feature in the management of these houses is the 
 method of watering by sub-irrigation. This method is something new in green¬ 
 house management, and marks a great step in advance in the profitable forcing 
 of vegetables. 
 
 Much of the work on the farm and in the gardens, orchards, and green¬ 
 houses is done by voluntary student labor, for which students are paid. Not all 
 agricultural and horticultural students work, and not all students who work are 
 in these courses, but a large number do work, and they are for the most part 
 from these courses. The extent of this work may be illustrated by the work 
 
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 and illustrated in a practical manner in the green-houses, on the grounds and 
 by visits to other green-houses and grounds. Floriculture is similarly taught. 
 
 The Department of Horticulture has under its immediate control about 30 
 acres of land. About one-half of this is fruit, and a large number of the best 
 varieties are well represented. 
 
 Special attention is paid to market gardening, and the students have an 
 opportunity of observing all the operations from the sowing of the seed to the 
 marketing of the crop. Among the facilities for instruction in horticulture that 
 deserve special notice are a well stocked green-house and two forcing-houses. 
 
done on the farm alone. At the present time (during vacation) all the work is 
 done by students, excepting occasionally a hand or two during threshing or 
 other special work. During the ten months of the last school year, 75 students 
 worked more or less and were paid in the aggregate $ 2,557.57, the total pay roll 
 for that time being $3,199.73. During this time three students each earned 
 over $200.00, six earned amounts ranging from $120.00 to $170.00, four from 
 $55.00 to $95.00, fifteen from $20.00 to $50.00, while forty-seven earned lesser 
 amounts. Some of the students working in the gardens and green-houses did 
 equally well. If this educates students away from the farm, it is because they 
 get too much of it, and not because the atmosphere is detrimental to manual labor. 
 
 One of the departments of study particularly connected with the School of 
 Agriculture is that of Agricultural Chemistry. Students in the course in agricul¬ 
 ture must take three years of instruction in this department, those in horticulture 
 
 Horticultural Hall. 
 
 and forestry are required to take one year and may elect a second. Students in 
 the short course have one year of instruction. 
 
 The work begins with lectures and recitations on the principles of chemistry. 
 In about four weeks the student is placed at work in the laboratory and instructed 
 in qualitative analysis, the lectures being meanwhile continued. The student 
 thus early introduced into the practical work of the chemist soon becomes an 
 enthusiastic worker. Analyses are made of limestones, clays, soils, fertilizers, 
 feeding stuffs, water, milk, butter, cheese, and syrups. After this, special and 
 more difficult work is taken up. 
 
 The Department of Agricultural Chemistry occupies an important portion of 
 the large chemical building, erected and equipped in 1890, at a cost of $ 62,000 00. 
 This department has a lecture room with seats for 60 students, a preparation 
 room, a laboratory with desks for 54 students, a laboratory for organic analysis, 
 a store room, a balance room and a private laboratory. The apparatus, equip¬ 
 ment and illustrative material is ample and thoroughly modern. 
 
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There is a special course in veterinary medicine, requiring three years for 
 its completion. This course is for those who wish to become practitioners in 
 this important branch of medicine. The work required of the agricultural 
 student includes veterinary anatomy, lectures and work in the dissecting room 
 in the sophomore year. In the junior year the student studies the nature and 
 treatment of infectious and contagious diseases of live stock. In the senior 
 year surgical diseases and operations and obstetrics may be elected. 
 
 This department has a special brick building of ample proportions for its 
 use. The hospital in the rear affords excellent facilities for the care of patients 
 and for the study and treatment of their ailments. The front part of the build¬ 
 ing contains a lecture room and library, an anatomical and pathological museum, 
 a bacteriological laboratory, a room for microscopy, a dark room and an office. 
 The museum has the usual collections prepared by students, and the department 
 has a set of surgical instruments of the latest and most approved patterns. 
 Clinics are held daily during the college year, and subjects undergo treatment 
 
 by students, with the 
 advice and direction of 
 the professor and his 
 assistant. 
 
 While botany is one 
 of the general studies of 
 the university, a special 
 course of advanced bot¬ 
 any is taught for the 
 students of the School 
 of Agriculture. This 
 course is taken in the 
 freshman year, and con¬ 
 sists in the fall term of 
 the character, function 
 and methods of plant 
 growth ; in the* winter 
 term, a special study is 
 made of plants which 
 are of practical utility ; 
 
 Dr. N. S. Townshend, 
 Prof Emeritus of Agriculture. 
 
 f in the spring term, the 
 diseases of farm and gar¬ 
 den crops are studied. 
 All these subjects are 
 taught by lectures and 
 practical laboratory 
 work. Many students 
 avail themselves of the 
 opportunity offered to 
 take up still more ad¬ 
 vanced work in the bot¬ 
 anical laboratory, the 
 facilities for the study 
 of cryptogamic botany 
 being especially fine. 
 
 This department, 
 also, has a special build¬ 
 ing, provided for in 1883 
 by a state appropriation 
 of $ 15,000.00. It is con¬ 
 
 structed of brick, and is fifty feet long by forty feet wide, with an attachment in 
 the rear which is twenty-five feet square. The whole is two stories in height. 
 
 All the required work of the Department of Zoology and Entomology is 
 taken by students of the School of Agriculture. In the second year of the short 
 course in agriculture, students devote three hours a week to economic 
 entomology, collecting, rearing and preserving ir.s?cts and practice in spraying 
 and other means of controlling insect pests. In the freshman year of the full 
 courses of this school, general zoo^gy and entomology are studied throughout 
 the year. This includes both recitations and laboratory work, and is made to be 
 of the largest possible help to students of agricultur3 and horticulture. More 
 advanced work may be chosen in the senior year. 
 
 The outfit of this department is ample, consisting of general zoological col¬ 
 lections, an entomological collection, a series of skeletons, alcoholic specimens 
 and all needed instruments. 
 
 The facilities of instruction in geology have always been good, but now 
 there is completed, at a cost of $ 90,000.00, a special geological building known 
 as Orton Hall, after the venerable and well-known professor of geology. Here 
 the many and intricate relations between geology and agriculture are discussed. 
 
The agricultural student gets his shop practice in a building recently erected 
 for this class of work at a cost of $50,000.00, and called Hayes Hall, after the 
 late President Hayes, whose influence while a member of the board of trustees 
 secured its erection. 
 
 Valuable instruction in physiology, physics, civil government and constitu¬ 
 tional history, political economy, mental and moral philosophy and the lan¬ 
 guages can here only be mentioned. 
 
 Scholarship ai?cl Other l°oii)ts. 
 
 NOTE THESE POINTS CAREFULLY. 
 
 Each county in Ohio may appoint one man each year to a free scholarship. 
 A scholarship is good for: First, the two years of the short course in Agri¬ 
 
 culture ; or, second, the first year of the short course and the Freshman year of 
 
 Scene in Agricultural Chemistry Laboratory. 
 
 the long course ; or, third, the first year of the short course in Agriculture and 
 the Freshman year of the course in Horticulture and Forestry. 
 
 If there be a County Agricultural Society, the appointment is to be made by 
 it; otherwise the Farmers’ Institute of the county is entitled to make the 
 appointment. 
 
 If there be neither Agricultural Society nor Farmers’ Institute, any county 
 farmers’ organization, as Grange, Alliance, Club, etc., is entitled to make the 
 appointment. 
 
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The scholarship covers incidental and laboratory fees, leaving the holder 
 to provide for himself board and lodging, books and clothing. 
 
 Books cost somewhere from $ 12 to $ 20 per year. 
 
 Board and lodging, including fuel, light, etc., if one does his own house 
 work, as many students do, will cost in cash from $40 to $75 per year. If one 
 takes a room, and board in club or private family, as most do who can afford it, 
 the cost will be somewhere from $130 to $200 per year, or more, as you choose to 
 make it. That is to say, it is quite possible for one with a free scholarship to 
 spend a year at the University with no greater outlay of money than $100, aside 
 
 from clothing, railroad fare, etc. In fact, some have done this on considerable 
 less than $ 100. 
 
 Something like $4,000 is paid annually by the Departments of Agriculture 
 and Horticulture to students for labor, besides a considerable sum by other 
 departments, and quite a large amount by city residents near the University 
 grounds. 
 
 We do not recommend any young man to attempt a course without from $50 
 to $ 100 to begin with, though in individual cases $ 20 have proven sufficient, all 
 other necessary money being earned during the school year, including vacations. 
 
 If you have been appointed to a free scholarship, and find that you can not 
 attend the University, it is your duty to resign the scholarship at once, in order 
 that some one else may have a chance. The scholarship will expire as soon if 
 not used as if used, and if not used the agriculture of your county loses the 
 benefits. 
 
 li 
 
If you use your scholarship it will save you $ 65 during the two years ; other¬ 
 wise it is worth nothing to you, as you can not transfer it to another. 
 
 The scholarships are good only for Agriculture or Horticulture, except that if 
 the appointing power in any county should have no applicant for the Agricul¬ 
 tural or Horticultural course, that power may then appoint an applicant who 
 wishes to take the course in Veterinary Medicine. That scholarship w r ill then 
 be good for two years in the School of Veterinary Medicine. 
 
 If you wish to study Agriculture or Horticulture, or follow any line of work 
 in these general subjects, and the scholarihips due your county are taken, and 
 you can not persuade the appointing power of any other county to appoint you, 
 come and take a course any w r ay. You can not afford to neglect such important 
 preparation for your work on account of the additional expense, especially when 
 the expense is so small. If you hav*e not enough money to enable you to take a 
 full course of four years, or the short course of two years, spend one year here ; 
 or even less, if you can do no better. 
 
 The opportunities open to graduates of the long courses of this School of 
 Agriculture are at least as great as those open to graduates of any regular under¬ 
 graduate course in any school in America. 
 
 The competition to be met by the educated agriculturist or horticulturist is 
 much less formidable than that to be met by educated men in almost any other 
 calling. 
 
 If you think of taking a course in Agriculture, write to some officer or mem¬ 
 ber of this Association. 
 
 If you receive an appointment to the free scholarship, write us to that effect 
 immediately. This is very important. 
 
 We wish every one of you would visit the institution, and see for liimsellf 
 just what it is. We invite you to come. 
 
 TERMS AND VACATIONS. 
 
 The first term of each college year begins on the Wednesday following the 
 tenth day of September, and closes on the Wednesday preceding Christmas. 
 The second term begins on the Wednesday following the first day of January, 
 and closes on the Friday following the twenty-first day of March. The third 
 term begins on the Monday following the close of the second term, and closes 
 on Commencement Day, which is the Wednesday following the eleventh day of 
 June. 
 
 Regular college exercises are omitted on Thanksgiving Day and the day 
 following, on the twenty-second day of February, and on Memorial Day. 
 
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THE COURSES IN THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE 
 
 See Short Description pages 4 to 10. 
 
 Outline of the Short Course In Agriculture. 
 
 REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE SHORT COURSE IN AGRICULTURE. 
 
 Candidates must be at least fifteen years of age, and, unless they are over twenty-one years of 
 age, must pass an examination in grammar, geography, arithmetic, and United States history. 
 Candidates who are over twenty-one are admitted without examination. 
 
 Figures in parentheses indicate the number of hours of recitation per week 
 in the subjects after which they stand. Two hours of laboratory or shop work 
 are equivalent to one hour of recitation. 
 
 FIRST YEAR. 
 
 Fall Term — Agricultural Chemistry (5); Physics (5); Algebra (5); Military 
 Drill. 
 
 Winter Term — Agricultural Chemistry (5); Physics (5); Practice in Carpen¬ 
 try, Blacksmithing, Cold Iron Work, Adjustment and Care of Tools, etc., (3); 
 Geometry (5); Military Drill. 
 
 Spring Term — Agricultural Chemistry (5); Physical Geography (5); Ele¬ 
 mentary Botany (5); Land Surveying, Road and Drainage Engineering (3); Mili¬ 
 tary Drill. 
 
 SECOND YEAR. 
 
 Fall Term —Farm Equipment (3); Breeds of Farm Live Stock (4); Struc¬ 
 ture, Functions, and Life of Plants (5); The Elements of Veterinary Medicine (3); 
 Horticulture (3); Military Drill. 
 
 Winter Term — Soils (3); Stock Breeding or Dairy Husbandry (4); Infectious 
 and Contageous Diseases of Farm Animals (3); Horticulture (3); Physiology (5); 
 Military Drill. 
 
 Spring Term — Stock Feeding (4); Farm Crops (3); Insects and Insect Ene¬ 
 mies and Friends (3); Infectious and Contageous Diseases of Farm Animals (3); 
 Horticultural (2); Military Drill. 
 
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Outline of the Long Course in Agriculture. 
 
 REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE LONG COURSES. 
 
 The following are the requirements for admission : 
 
 1. Grammar, Geography, and Arithmetic. 
 
 2. History — History of the United States, Johnston’s preferred. 
 
 3. Algebra — Wentworth’s Elements of Algebra, complete, or an equivalent. 
 
 4. Plane Geometry — Wentworth’s, or an equivalent. 
 
 5. Physics — Gage’s Elements of Physics, complete, or an equivalent. 
 
 6. English — Hill’s Elements of Rhetoric, or an equivaledt. 
 
 7. Botany — Gray’s Botany, or an equivalent. 
 
 8. Physical Geography — Geikie’s Physical Geography, or an equivalent. 
 
 9. Any of the following subjects : 
 
 (a) Solid Geometry — Wentworth’s, or an equivalent. 
 
 (b ) Civil Government — Fiske’s, Martin’s, or Macy’s preferred. 
 
 (c ) General History — Myers's preferred. 
 
 FIRST YEAR. 
 
 Fall Term — Agricultural Chemistry (5); Plant Physiology (5); Zoology (3); 
 English Language (2); Military Drill. 
 
 Winter Term — Agricultural Chemistry (5); Uses of Plants (5); Zoology (3); 
 English (2); Military Drill. 
 
 Spring Term — Agricultural Chemistry (5); Diseases of Farm and Garden 
 Crops (5); Entomology, Insect Enemies, and Friends (3); English (2); Military 
 Drill. 
 
 SECOND YEAR. 
 
 Fall Term — The Breeds of Farm Live Stock (4); Veterinary Anatomy (3); 
 Horticulture (3); Agricultural Chemistry (3); Human Anatomy and Physiology 
 (3); Military Drill. 
 
 Winter Term — Stock Breeding (4); Veterinary Anatomy (5); Horticulture 
 (3); Agricultural Chemistry (3); The Human Body (3); Military Drill and Art of 
 War. 
 
 Spring Term — Stock Feeding'(4); Veterinary Anatomy (3); Horticulture 
 3; Agricultural Chemistry (3); Anatomy and Physiology (3); Land Surveying, 
 Road and Drainage Engineering (3); Military Drill. 
 
 THIRD YEAR. 
 
 Fall Term — Farm Equipment (3); Animal Diseases (3); Geoloyg (5); French, 
 or German Language (5); Constitutional History of the United States (2). 
 
 Winter Term — Soils (3); Infectious and Contagious Diseases of Farm Ani¬ 
 mals (3); Practice in Carpentry, Blacksmithing, Cold Iron Work, Adjustment and. 
 Care of Tools, etc. (3); French or German Language (5); Constitutional Law (2). 
 
 Spring Term — Farm Crops (3); Infectious and Contageous Diseases of Farm 
 Animals (3); Insect Enemies and Friends (3); French or German Language ( 5)- y 
 Political History of the United States (2\ 
 
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FOURTH YEAR — Required Work. 
 
 Fall 'Term — Animal Husbandry (4); Industries Related to Agriculture and 
 Chemical Investigation along these lines (3) 
 
 Winter Term — Dairy Husbandry (4); Agricultural Chemistry, special work 
 in (3). 
 
 Spring Term — Rural Economy, Dollars and Cents in Farming (4); Agri- 
 Chemistry, special work in (3). 
 
 The remainder of the work for the year is to be selected from the following 
 list of subjects: Horticulture (5); Botany (5); Surgical Diseases and Operations, 
 and Obstetrics, (5); Zoology (5); Entomology (5); Physics (3); Psychology and 
 Ethics (3); Mediaeval History (2); History of Civilization or Political and Consti¬ 
 tutional History of England (3); French or German Literature and Composition 
 (3); Mechanical Engineering (3); Political and Social Sciences (3); English Lan¬ 
 guage and Literature (2). 
 
 Outline of the Course in Horticulture and Forestry. 
 
 FIRST YEAR. 
 
 Identical with the first year of the Long Course in Agriculture. 
 
 SECOND YEAR. 
 
 Same as second year of Long Course in Agriculture, except that instead of 
 The Breeds of Farm Live Stock in the Fall, Stock Breeding in the winter, and 
 Stock Feeding in the Spring Terms, and Veterinary Anatomy throughout the 
 year, is substituted French or German Language (5) and English Language (2) 
 each throughout the year. 
 
 THIRD YEAR. 
 
 The same as the third year of the Long Course in Agriculture, except that 
 for Farm Equipment (4) in the Fall Term, Soils (4) in the Winter Term, and 
 Farm Crops (4) in the Spring Term, is substituted Horticulture (5) throughout 
 the year, and French or German Language throughout the year is substituted a 
 choice by the student of five hours’ work per week from the following list: 
 Mediaeval History (2), Modern History and History of Civilization (3), English 
 Language (2), English Literature (3), Mental and Moral Science (3), French Lan¬ 
 guage and Literature (3), German Language and Literature (3), Economics, 
 Finances, and Political Economy (2). 
 
 FOURTH YEAR — Required Work. 
 
 Fall Term — Culture, Uses and History of Trees (3); Floriculture (2). 
 
 Winter Term — Forestry (3); Commercial Floriculture (2). 
 
 Spring Term — Landscape Gardening (3); Flower and Ornamental Garden¬ 
 ing (2). 
 
 The remaiuder of the work for the year is to be chosen by the student from 
 a long list of interesting and important subjects, which for the most part have 
 been mentioned in the statement of the Long Course in Agriculture. 
 
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V 
 
 Stadei?ts I^oui ip School of flstHcultiiire. 
 
 You may know some of these persons. Write any of them concerning the 
 school. 
 
 Seniors. 
 
 Beattie, R. W..Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio 
 
 Bogue, E. E.Ashtabula County, Ohio 
 
 Hood, S.Meander, Trumbull County, Ohio 
 
 juniors. 
 
 Burkett, C. W.Thornville, Perry County, Ohio 
 
 Dunlap, R. W.Kingston, Pickaway County, Ohio 
 
 Riggs, E. J.Angola, Gallia County, Ohio 
 
 Veterinary Hospital. 
 
 Sophornores. 
 
 Aumend, M. G.Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio 
 
 Crowner, D. A.Wellsville, Allegheny County, New York 
 
 Lawrence, M. W ... .Denver, Colorado 
 
 Leonard W. E.Morrow, Warren County, Ohio 
 
 Loomis, H. H.Deerfield, Portage County, Ohio 
 
 Rarick M. M.Thornville, Perry County, Ohio 
 
 Pfarr P. L. .Minersville, Meigs County, Ohio 
 
 Ruhlen, Frank.New California, Union County, Ohio 
 
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Fr esbrrjer). 
 
 Evans, W. B.Newark, Licking County, Ohio 
 
 Fisher, Walter.. ... Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Scott, Earnest.Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Ward, P. E.Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio 
 
 Second Year, Short Cotirse ir» floriculture. 
 
 Ayres, S. D. Hartsgrove, Ashtabula County, Ohio 
 
 Cromley, A. M.Ashville, Pickaway County, Ohio 
 
 Davenport, C. A.Whisler, Pickaway County, Ohio 
 
 Geckler, F. C.Beebetown, Medina County, Ohio 
 
 Hamilton, W. C.Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio 
 
 Harter, J. H.Lewis Center, Delaware County, Ohio 
 
 Keunzli, J. A.Upper Sandusky, Wyandot County, Ohio 
 
 McOwen, Jas., Jr.Ovid, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Miller, C. J.Franklin, Warren County, Ohio 
 
 Shaw, J. C .Newark, Licking County, Ohio 
 
 Spiers, C. E ...•.Atwater, Portage County, Ohio 
 
 Taylor, M. S.Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio 
 
 First Year, Short CoUrse It) floriculture. 
 
 Baer, Philip, Jr .Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio 
 
 Baldwin, L. R.Milton, Mahoning County, Ohio 
 
 Birdsall, J. W.Green Spring, Seneca County, Ohio 
 
 Brandt, J. M.Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio 
 
 Britton, J. C.Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio 
 
 Canfield, C. H. . . Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio 
 
 Cline, W. E.New Vienna, Clinton County, Ohio 
 
 Dallas, J. T..Hopedale, Harrison County, Ohio 
 
 Fawcett, A. J.Plantsville, Morgan County, Ohio 
 
 Flickinger, G. A.York, Union County, Ohio 
 
 Getz, Frank.Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Gibbons, Benj. T . ... Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio 
 
 Graham, J. E.Raccoon Island, Gallia County, Ohio 
 
 Johnston, F. S.Pierpont, Ashtabula County, Ohio 
 
 Jones, H. H .Radnor, Delaware County, Ohio 
 
 Kockers, P. J..Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 
 
 Laughlin, J. G..Catawba, Clarke County, Ohio 
 
 Lutz, Ray... .Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio 
 
 Mays, Jno.South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio 
 
 McLaughlin, Henry.Thornville, Perry County, Ohio 
 
 McMannis, A. T.Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio 
 
 Milliman, Prescott.Milan, Erie County, Ohio 
 
 Ridings, J. O.Edentown, Clermont County, Ohio 
 
 Roberts, J. L.Vaughnsville, Putnam County, Ohio 
 
 Rood, V. A.Nevada, Crawford County, Ohio 
 
 Roscoe, F. B.Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio 
 
 Rutan, B. M .Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio 
 
 Shellabarger, M. R.Garland, Miami County, Ohio 
 
 Stump, Mrs. F. P .Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Warden, L. C...Avon, Lorain County, Ohio 
 
 Westwater, W. G.Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Wilson, G. C.Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Winspeare, J. A...Barnhill, Tuscarawas County, Ohio 
 
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fl Partial List of ExMStudeijts ip tfje School 
 
 of flgricaltare. 
 
 You may know some of these persons. Write any of them concerning the 
 school. 
 
 Bowman, J. T. 
 
 Birney, W. H. 
 
 Brashear, 0. F. 
 
 Brown, A. S. 
 
 Brundaga, E. C.... 
 
 Burnham, S. F. 
 
 Burnham, L. C. 
 
 Burnsides, T. E., jr. 
 
 Cookson, J. H. 
 
 Cox, E. L. 
 
 Dailey, H. G. 
 
 Davis, Shelley. 
 
 Daniels, J. T. 
 
 Demorest, L. W. 
 
 Dun, Chas. E. 
 
 Eghert, K. C. 
 
 Eysenbach, Delphos 
 Farnsworth, D. J. 
 Florence, Geo 
 
 Frederick, I. L. 
 
 Frye, J. W. 
 
 Geckler, C. F. 
 
 Geckler, F. C. 
 
 *Gibson, Orville.... 
 
 Grant, A. M. 
 
 Guy, C. P. 
 
 Hamilton, R. M. 
 
 Hathaway, E. R. 
 
 Hegler, D. S. 
 
 Hegler, Orris. 
 
 Heston, Albert. 
 
 Hiatt, R. D. 
 
 Hill, I. T. R. 
 
 Hine, J. S. 
 
 Holdeman, G. L. 
 
 Holtz, H. A . 
 
 Howard, O. N. 
 
 Howard, Cone. 
 
 Howard, Wm., jr .. 
 
 Hoyt, C. A. . . . 
 
 Humphreys, S. S . . 
 
 Hunter, W. F. 
 
 Jones, Wm. S. 
 
 .Chester Hill, Morgan County, Ohio 
 
 . Tappan, Harrison County, Ohio 
 
 .Milnersville. Guernsey County, Ohio 
 
 .Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio 
 
 .Melmore, Seneca County, Ohio 
 
 .Milford Center, Union County, Ohio 
 
 .Milford Center, Union County, Ohio 
 
 .Galena, Delaware County, Ohio 
 
 .Redfield, Morgan County, Ohio 
 
 .Rich Hill, Knox County, Ohio 
 
 .Hayesville, Ashland County, Ohio 
 
 .Dublin, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 .Toronto, Canada 
 
 .Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 .Dublin, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 .Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio 
 
 .Van Wert County, Ohio 
 
 .Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio 
 
 .Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio 
 
 Washington ville, Columbiana County, Ohio 
 
 . Lowell, Washington County, Ohio 
 
 .Beebetown, Medina County, Ohio 
 
 .Beebetown, Medina County, Ohio 
 
 .Good Hope, Fayette County, Ohio 
 
 .Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 .. Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio 
 
 .Brownsville, Licking County, Ohio 
 
 .Milford Center, Union County, Ohio 
 
 .. .Washington C. H., Fayette County, Ohio 
 .. .Washington C. H., Fayette County, Ohio 
 
 ..Springboro, Warren County, Ohio 
 
 .Chester Hill, Morgan County, Ohio 
 
 .Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio 
 
 .Neapolis, Fulton County, Ohio 
 
 .Kingston, Ross County, Ohio 
 
 .Green Springs, Seneca County, Ohio 
 
 .Milford Center, Union County, Ohio 
 
 .Milford Center, Union County, Ohio 
 
 .Irwin, Union County, Ohio 
 
 .Rock Creek, Ashtabula County, Ohio 
 
 .Coolville, Athens County, Ohio 
 
 . Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 .Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
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Kerr, F. H. Monclova, Lucas County, Ohio 
 
 Kohls, F. J. Ottawa, Putnam County, Ohio 
 
 Krug, Albert. .Herman, Kansas 
 
 Lavery, Wm. F.South Salem, Ross County, Ohio 
 
 Lee, Y. W.Orland, Vinton County, Ohio 
 
 Mallow, J. R.Austin, Fayette County, Ohio 
 
 Markey, Amos.West Elkton, Preble County, Ohio 
 
 Mawer, G. C..Oak Harbor, Ottawa County, Ohio 
 
 McCoy, C. C.Heglers, Fayette County, Ohio 
 
 McCullough, W. C.Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio 
 
 McDowell, G. K.Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio 
 
 McMillan, J. H .Woodstock, Champaign County, Ohio 
 
 Mendenhall, M. H. .West Elkton, Preble County, Ohio 
 
 Mercer, W. D.McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio 
 
 Merriam, R. K.Blue Rock, Muskingum County, Ohio 
 
 Mix, L. L..Camp Chase, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Murray, F. E. .Greenfield, Ross County, Ohio 
 
 Nichelson, Chas.Plattsburg, Clarke County, Ohio 
 
 Nickerson, Clark.New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio 
 
 Parrett, N. M .Madison Mills, Fayette County, Ohio 
 
 Peterson, Russell. .Austin, Ross County, Ohio 
 
 Phinney, C. A. .Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Pletscher, Roland. . Brooklyn, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 
 
 Powell, Luke.Russell, Kentucky 
 
 Powell, Earnest.Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio 
 
 Powell, H. G.Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio 
 
 Price, E. C.New Moorefield, Clarke County, Ohio 
 
 Priest, Fred.Newark, Licking County, Ohio 
 
 Shannon, R. G.. Fort Seneca, Seneca County, Ohio 
 
 Saum, J. L.Antwerp, Paulding County, Ohio 
 
 Sharp, R. H. Sugar Grove, Fairfield'County, Ohio 
 
 Sherwood, A. E.Plain City, Madison County, Ohio 
 
 Slough, Chas..Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Smith, S. J. .Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 
 
 Starker, C. R..West Elkton, Preble County, Ohio 
 
 Stillings, C. L..Milford Center, Union County, Ohio 
 
 Stillson, D. M.Kent, Portage County, Ohio 
 
 Stillson, R. S.Kent, Portage County, Ohio 
 
 Strong, A. B.Strongsville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 
 
 Swingle, U. G.Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Semple, G. C.Piketown, Pike County, Ohio 
 
 Thompson, A. N. .Milnersville, Guernsey County, Ohio 
 
 Thompson, U. D.Milnersville, Guernsey County, Ohio 
 
 Thorne, B. H.Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio 
 
 Treat, H. W.Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio 
 
 Walker, J. W.Emerson, Jefferson County, Ohio 
 
 Wagner, W. D.. .Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio 
 
 Ward, B. N.DeGraff, Logan County, Ohio 
 
 West, R. S. .Rix’s Mills, Muskingum County, Ohio 
 
 White, D. S.Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 
 
 Wilkins, H. L.Washington, District of Columbia 
 
 Wood, A. J.Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio 
 
 Wood, D. C.. .Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio 
 
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flUxtr)t)i School of 
 
 1885. 
 
 William P. Bently, B. Agr., missionary.Nankin, China 
 
 1886. 
 
 William S. Devol, B. Agr., Associate Editor of an Horticultural Journal , 
 
 Practical Horticulturalist.Riverside, California 
 
 1890. 
 
 Knott C. Egbert, B. Agr., Superintendent Fruit Farm, Tiffin, Seneca County, O. 
 Charles P. Fox, B. Agr., Professor of Agriculture and Director of 
 
 Agricultural Experiment Station.Moscow, Idaho 
 
 
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 1891. 
 
 Lloyd M. Bloomfield, B. Agr., Assistant in Agricultural Chem¬ 
 istry. .Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 
 
 Julius H. R. Paul Fischer, B. Agr., D. Y. M.Student, Berlin, Germany 
 
 Frank W,. Rane, B. Agr., Horticulturalist, West Virginia Agri¬ 
 cultural Experiment Station.Morgantown, West Virginia 
 
 1892. 
 
 William H. Baker, B. Agr., Farmer and Stockbreeder, 
 
 Farmersville, Livingston County, Missouri 
 Hamilton H. Richardson, Farmer and Gardener, 
 
 South Brooklyn, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 
 Franklin P. Stump, B. Agr., Foreman of Farm and Assistant in 
 
 Agriculture .Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 
 
 1893. 
 
 James S. Hine, B. Sc. (in Horticulture and Forestry), Superin¬ 
 tendent Northwestern Branch Ohio Agricultural Experi¬ 
 ment Station.Neapolis, Fulton Couuty, Ohio 
 
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