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ill the journal of March 2G, 1879. From these esthiiates the Legislature struck 

 off that for the enlargement of the chemical Uiboratory, very much crippling 

 the growth of that department of the College, and making necessary the 

 rejection of several applicants for admission to the College. They also struck 

 off §1,000 for the estimate for building a house with furnace, and a barn for 

 the professor of agriculture, leaving .V.3,000, — 81,500 from the estimates for 

 farm improvements, — §900 from the estimates for various departments, and 

 81,000 a year from the salaries of professors, compelling the Board to reduce 

 salaries from $3,000 to 81,800 a year. 



The bill as passed, and approved May 37, 1879, appropriates for 1879 and 

 1880. 



For a professor's dwelling-liouse, with furnace and barn, and for other ex- 

 penses connected therewith, 83,000; for a botanical laboratory, 86,000, both 

 in 1879 ; for current expenses of 1879, 84,971.80 and the same for 1880. For 

 Farmer's Institutes of both years, 8G00; for insurance, 8G00 ; for the library, 

 83,000; for the department of mathematics and civil engineering, 81,030; 

 for the department of zoology and entomology, 8800; for the chemical 

 department, 81,000; for the horticultural department, 82,810; for the farm 

 department, 84,016.04, and for buildings and repairs outside of the above 

 named departments, 81,390. The total appropriation for 1879 amounts to 

 831,040.13; and for 18S0, 813,040.13. 



The Botanical Laborator}^ the new dwelling, the Gardener's rooms in the 

 green-house and the propagating pits, for Avhich appropriations were made, are 

 on their way to completion. 



The bill for the erection of a hall for ladies failed to pass. 



OFFICERS, 



The report of the Faculty of the College speaks of the resignation of 

 Prof. Geo. T. Fairchild, who takes presidency of the Kansas Agricultural 

 College. The agricultural College over which Professor Fairchild, after 

 fifteen years' of service in this College, has been called to preside, is at Man- 

 hattan. It has thirteen professors and instructors, and one hundred and sixty- 

 nine young men and sixty-nine ladies, or students in a four years' course of 

 study. They have a mechanical department, a printing department, a tele- 

 graph department and a woman's industrial department. Only a small amount 

 of labor is required of students, and that is educational and not paid for. 

 Labor is furnished students on application and compensated at from 3 cts. to 

 10 cts. an hour. The institution being in the village, there are no dormito- 

 ries. The professor of agriculture appointed in 1874 is a graduate of the 

 Michigan Agricultural College, and so for several years was the professor of 

 chemistry until his acceptance of a chair in Oberlin College. One may see from 

 this sketch of Kansas Agricultural College, that Professor Fairchild has gone 

 to a kindred institution, whose experience we may avail ourselves of from time 

 to time. 



The Faculty report speaks also of the resignation of Professor Charles L. 

 Ingersoll, and his acceptance of the professorship of Agriculture in Purdue 

 University, La Fayette, Indiana. His report of experiments has been handed 

 in, but the report of the general management of the farm w'ill have to be com- 

 piled by his successor after the completion of tiie posting of accounts, and 

 may not appear in this volume. A report has been circulated that the pro- 

 fessor of agriculture has received less salary than the other professors. This 



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