Manila school of Agriculture, July 02, 1889
Manila school of Agriculture
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What
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July 2, 1889
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Manila school of Agriculture, created
by a Royal decree of November 29, 1887, was established.
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Objects
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The
theoretical and practical education of skilled farmers;
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The education of overseers;
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The
promotion of agricultural development in the Philippines, by means of
observation, experiment, and investigation.
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Student Vouch
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valid certificate, to be of good
health, and to have studied and have passed examinations in some institution
of secondary education, or other properly accredited institution.
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Stations
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Isabela
de Luzon, Ilocos, Albay, Cebu, Iloilo, Leyte, Mindanao, and Jolo. Those of
Jolo and Leyte were abolished by royal decrees, dated September 10, 1888, and
December 7, 1891, respectively.
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Course of Studies
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First year - Elements of agriculture;
mathematical problems; practical work in topography; linear and topographical
drawing.
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Second
year - Special methods of cultivation; elements of stockbreeding;
agricultural arts; practical work in cultivation and the industries; setting
up and management of machines; drawing applied to machines and to plants.
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Third year - Elements of rural
economy; accounts and agricultural legislation; general practical work in
cultivation, stockbreeding, and industry; drawing of plans.
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Education
of the overseers was carried on in the agricultural stations, which have been
created for the purpose of doing technical work in analyses of earth, systems
of irrigation, studies of seed, acclimatization of vegetables and animals,
study and treatment of epizootic, epiphysis, etc.
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The professors in the school were
agricultural engineers and their assistants skilled farmers.
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The
university of Santo Tomas, both of itself, and through the Ateneo Municipal,
issued certificates to skilled farmers and surveyors, for which it required
mathematics, physics, chemistry, natural history, agriculture, topography,
and linear and topographical drawing.
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This government school opened with 82
students, but in the following year there were only 50. It cannot be said to
have been a success, for the Filipinos, while inclined to readily adopt the
professions, have never shown any marked inclination for agro-industrial
pursuits.
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References
School of Agriculture,
The Philippine Islands, Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward
Gaylord Bourne, Volume 45, The A. H. Clark company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1903.
The development and the
present status of education in the Philippine Islands, Reverend Vincent
Catapang, Boston, The Stratford company, 1926.
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