18 STATE BOARD OV AGRICULTURE. 



is not the case and never lias been. There being no dwelling-house at the 

 time of the a]ipoiiitincnt, for Prof. Ingersoll, it was arranged that lie should 

 take charge of Farm House, until a dwelling could be had ; and for his entire 

 services to the College he received the living of iiiinself and family in fur- 

 nished rooms, and at first ^bOO, and afterwards ^400 less in cash than the oth- 

 ers, llis salary was always considered by the Board to be fully equivalent to 

 that paid to any professor. 



Professor Ingersoll goes to an institution where the agricultural department 

 is to be built up almost from the foundation. He is to have, it is said, no 

 responsibility for the general management of the farm, but only of the experi- 

 mental portion of it, — about ten acres. A graduate of the Michigan State 

 Agricultural College, we shall be proud of his success in his new field of labor. 



Mr. Henry E. Owen, a graduate of the class of 1878, has been employed as 

 an assistant in the horticultural department and has taught Ancient History 

 to the freshmen class, in two sections, during the autumn term. Mr. Frank 

 Benton a member of the Senior class, has had charge of the classes in French 

 two hours a day throughout the year. 



The following is a list, perhaps incomplete, of the Wednesday afternoon lec- 

 tures in the College chapel: 



By President Abbot — On Novel-reading, and the Utility to the Farmer of the 

 study of Botany. 



By Dr. Kedzie — On the New Alchemy, or the Notion that Metals are Com- 

 pounds. 



By Professor Fairchild — On Debt and Credit. 



By Professor Cook — On Snakes, and on Claude Bernard. 



By Professor Beal — On College Experiments, and on the Relation of Botany 

 to Horticultiire. 



By Professor Ingersoll — On Milk of different breeds of Cattle. A subject 

 which he had been investigating jointly with Mr. Robert F. Kedzie, the assist- 

 ant in Chemistry. 



By Professor Carpenter — On Stephenson, and on Railroad Transportation. 



Mr. W. S. George lectured on the Currency, and Mr. Alvah Bradish, ou 

 How to judge of Works of Art. 



STATE FAIR. 



The report of the Faculty gives quite at length the relations of the Col- 

 lege to the State Agricultural Society. In September. 1878, an exhibition 

 was made by the College. Dr. Kedzie, from the Chemical Department, exhib- 

 ited soils from various parts of the State in glass jars with analyses. He 

 asfterwards gave an address at the Farmer's Institutes in Dowagiac and Bay 

 City, and in this address drew from the analyses encouraging lessons for our 

 State. Dr. Kedzie also exhibited specimens of maize with analyses. The 

 Horticultural Department exhibited specimens of potatoes and of grasses. The 

 farm department showed a large number of varieties of wheat plants. The 

 objects exhibited attracted much attention at the fair. 



DONATIONS. 



The College has been the recipient of many presents, a list of which appears 

 in the report of the Secretary. The Michigan Central Railroad, the D., L. & 

 N. R. R., the C. & N. E. R. R., and the C. & L. H. Railroads have all been 

 very generous in redactions of fare made to students at times of the short va- 

 cations — not this vear only, but in several preceding years. 



T. C. ABBOT, President. 



