Sample Mla Research Paper - "Toward A Recovery Of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks" Page 6
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successful experimental efforts and improvements, should render
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themselves duly entitled to them.
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Part of Nicholson’s hope was realized in 1837 when Michigan established their state
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university, specifying that “agriculture was to be an integral part of the curriculum”
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(Danhof 71). Not much was accomplished, however, much to the dissatisfaction of
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farmers, and in 1855, the state authorized a new college to be “devoted to agriculture and
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to be independent of the university” (Danhof 71). The government became more involved
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in the creation of agricultural universities in 1862 when President Lincoln passed the
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Morrill Land Grant College Act, which begins with this phrase: “AN ACT Donating
Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the
Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts [sic].” The first agricultural colleges formed
under the act suffered from a lack of trained teachers and “an insufficient base of
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knowledge,” and critics claimed that the new colleges did not meet the needs of farmers
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Congress addressed these problems with the then newly formed United States
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already in
Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA and Morrill Act worked together to form
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“. . . State experiment stations and extension services . . . [that] added [to]
. . . localized research and education . . .” (Baker et al. 415). The USDA added to the
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scientific and educational areas of the agricultural field in other ways by including
has more
than three
authors,
research as one of the organization’s “foundation stone” (367) and by including these
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seven objectives:
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(1) [C]ollecting, arranging, and publishing statistical and other useful
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agricultural information; (2) introducing valuable plants and animals; (3)
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