PART IX. 



IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 MECHANIC ARTS. 



SECTIONS OF LAW GOVERNING COURSES OF STUDY, 

 AND ADMISSION TO COLLEGE. 



TUITION 



COL'KSES OF STUDl. 



Sec. 264S. There shall be adopted and taught practical courses of study, 

 embracing in their leading branches such as relate to agriculture and the mechanic 

 arts, and such other branches as are best calculated to thoroughly educate the agri- 

 cultural and industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life, iu- 

 cluding inilitary tactics, and, as a separate department, a school of mines, in which 

 a complete course in theoretical and practical mining in its different branches shall 

 be taught. 



TUITIO.X— ADMISSION. 



Sec. 264!). Tuition in the college herein established shall be forever free to 

 pupils from the state over sixteen years of age, who have been residents of this 

 state six months previous to their admission. Each county in this state shall have 

 a prior right to tuition for three scholars from such county ; the remainder, equal 

 to the capacity of the college, shall be by the trustees distributed among the coun- 

 ties in proportion to the population, subject to the above rule. Transient scholars 

 otherwise qualified, may at all times receive tuition. 



THE FARMER'S SHORT COURSE IN SCHOOL IN LIVE STOCK AND 

 CORN JUDGING AT THE IOWA STATE COLLEGE. 



By Prof. W. H. Olin, Instructor in Farm Crops. 





"An ear of corn that has been to college. 

 (621) 



