Monday, February 28, 2022

Marion High School Agriculture Laboratory - 1920

School year 1920.  Marion High School is one of the few High Schools in the state that offers a full four year course in agriculture. 

The walls of our laboratory are covered with beautifully framed pictures of farm animals and agriculture charts.  Our collection of all kinds of seeds, samples of fertilizers, feeds, cereals, by-products and other illustrative material has been increased to afford valuable supplements to class instruction.

We have a complete stock of chemicals and chemical apparatus for all standard experiments in chemistry of the farm and home.

We are especially proud of our collection of fossils and soil farming minerals, which we believe to be the most complete of any High School in the state.  This collection is indispensable for the study of geology and soil formation.

We also have a high powered compound microscope and one dozen hand lenses that help make laboratory work worth while.

Last but not least is our library of a hundred standard volumes, supplemented by one thousand catalogued bulletins affording splendid reference work for the students.

We have made a standing offer to the farmers of this county to test free of charge all the soils, milk and seeds they would bring to us.  A visit to our laboratory would prove very interesting to you and highly pleasing to us.


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