THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



for the purpose of establishing ■ Professorship of Agriculture, and the trustees have elected 



to tlie ch&ir Dr. Daniel Lee, former editor of t lit- Otntaet Fanner and Southern Cultivator. 



In Massachusetts, arrangements Lave been made, in connection with Amherst College, for 

 the instruction, in agriculture and its kindred sciences, of young nun, not permanently 

 members of the college, but who may resort to it, for longer or shorter periods, at pleasure, 

 for this specific purpose. This department is under the special direction of the well-known 

 agriculturist, Prof. J. N. Hash, editor of the Valley Farmer, and the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, 

 formerly President of the College. The plan of instruction embraces a full oourse of lec- 

 tures on the natural and physical sciences, and lectures and recitations on practical agricul- 

 ture and the application of science to rural affairs. 



The legislature of Michigan, at its last session, passed an act establishing an agricultural 

 college in thai State. This act provides that the site for an agricultural college shall be 

 purchased within ten miles of the capital of the State, of not less than five hundred acres, 

 nor i i one thousand; that twenty-two sections of Salt Spring lands shall be appro- 



priate 1 for the purchase of the land, erection of buildings, and all other necessary expenses 

 to be incurred in the establishment and successful operation of said college : thai the purpose 

 of the school shall lie to improve and teach the science and practice of agriculture : and that 

 the OOUrse of instruction in said college shall include the following branches of education — 

 viz., natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, 

 geology, mineralogy, meteorology, entomology, veterinary art. mensuration, levelling, political 

 economy, book-keeping, and the mechanic arts connected with agriculture. The tuition is 

 to be forever tree to pupils within the State. 



Luring the summer scholastic term, or from the beginning of April to the end of October, 

 the pupils are to be required to devote not less than three nor more than four hours to 

 manual labor, no student to be exempt except in the case of sickness or other infirmity. 



The legislature of Massachusetts, at the last session, passed an act incorporating the 

 "Boston Veterinary Institute," which has since been organized in the cit\ of Boston. The 

 object of the institute is to afford ample instruction to persons desirous of qualifying them- 



ir the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. The plan of instruction inolv 

 lectures on t my and physiology of the horse, on the theory and practice of veterinary 



medicine and surgery, and on cattle pathology. Students will also be allowed to attend the 



lectures on chemistry and pathological anatomy in the medical department of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and clinical Lectures will be given by the faculty. The officers of the institute oon- 

 of the following gentlemen: I). I). Slade, M.D., President; George II. Dodd, Prof, of 

 Anatomy and Physiology; Charles M. Wood, Prof, of Theory and Practice; B ibert Wood, 

 Prof, of Cattle pathology. i>. D. Blade, M.H., John W* Warren, BID., George Bartlett, 

 M.D., and Charles Gordon, M.D., Board of Examini 



In 1852, a charter for an agricultural college was granted by the legislature of New York. 

 chiefly by the agency of the late Bon. John Delafield, of Fayette, B at oa county. New York. 

 It had been contemplated to build the college on Mr. Delafleld's ('arm. and pi id been 



made to thai i ffed by the procurement of tome thousands of dollars, when the project was 

 interrupted bj Mr. 1». - sudden demise, Beoently, the trustees of the Institution have con- 

 sented to it- removal to the town of Ovid whenever the sum of $40,000, required by their 



by-laws, shall have been secured to put it on an enduring basis. This site is oentral, bene 

 tiful. and healthy — one of the best, it is believed, thai the State affords, and the people i • 

 ■ mind to the work. 

 On the it of Augn t, 1866, s meeting of persons interested was held in the town of < »vid. 

 ether on the subject, and to assisl in devising plans for the promotion of the 

 institution. Addn ises were delivered by various individuals, and resolutions were adopted 

 in favor of raising the sum of $200,000 for the purpose of carrying oul the work; of this 



an... unt the town of « > \ i • 1 was pledged for $10,000, and Seneca county for $80,000. 



For the purpose • t establishing an agricultural department of the academy at Vfestfield, 



ichusctt«, Stephen Harrison, of thai place, bequeathed, during the past 

 In 1844, mi agricultural department was established in connection with the oollege at 

 Obcrlin, Ohi", and a successful oourse ol Lectures given in connection with other instruction. 



