52 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



A suitable building- should be provided containing lecture and 

 recitation rooms, library, laboratory, room for the various depart- 

 ments of Natural History, with accommodations, at first, for some 

 one hundred students, so planned that it can easily be enlarged or 

 extended, when necessary, by the addition of wings. 



The library, chemical and philosophical apparatus, the instru- 

 ments for surveying and leveling, mensuration and drawing, the 

 different kinds of woods, and models of fruit might be gradually 

 collected as they are needed. Our Scientific Survey might fur- 

 nish specimens of the botany, mineralogy and geology of the State, 

 to which additions may afterwards be made. 



A model barn is needed, with apartments for all the various 

 uses of the ftirm. The live stock should be such as the different 

 branches of husbandry require, and ought to include thorough 

 bred animals, or specimens of all improved breeds that their merits 

 and characteristics may be observed and ascertained. 



In the proposed institution the various departments of instruc- 

 tion will include : 



1st, Practical Ilusbandry. 



2d, General and Agricultural Chemistry. 



3d, Botany, Vegetable Physiology and Horticulture. 



4th, Zoology, Animal Physiology and Entomology. 



5th, Geology, Mineralogy and Meteorology. 



6th, Mathematics, Surveying, Engineering and Mechanics. 



The Superintendent ought to be a thorough practical agricul- 

 turist, one who will not simply travel in the monotonous routine 

 of the dead past, b'ut believes in science and progress, and is 

 prompt to avail himself of any improvements, and has that pecu- 

 liar tact and judgment and inteUigenco that shall qualify him to 

 oversee and direct the labors of others. 



Tie will require all the students to work on the farm or in the 

 gardens some three hours daily, to become acquainted with all the 

 details of practical husbandry, to use the various tools with their 

 own hands, and periorm all kinds of work required in the manage- 

 ment of the farm and stock. He will teach them how to dig, to 

 plow, to plant, to hoe, to drain, &c., in the best manner, while the 

 Professors of tlie college will enable them to understand exactly 

 why eacli is to be done, or the reasons for the operations, so that 

 labor may be applied to the best possible advantage. 



Some five Professors will be required of tlie highest natural and 



