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and receipts for produce and live stock, nineteen thousand eight hundred 

 and seventy-three dollars and nineteen cents. 



Total debts of farm, including- property inventoried January first, eigh- 

 teen hundred and seventy, and all expenditures for live stock, labor, 

 implements, repairs, and fertilizers, twenty-one thousand four hundred 

 and nine dollars and sixty-nine cents. 



Three hundred and eighty-three acres of the Amherst domain have 

 been judiciously divided into farming ground, wood land, orchards, 

 vineyards, reserve, vegetable and nursery gardens, botanic garden, orna- 

 mental grounds, and arborium. A generous citizen has donated ten 

 thousand dollars for the care of the botanic garden. The model barn, 

 capable of holding fifty head of cattle and horses, cost ten thousand 

 dollars. The most expensive of the college buildings cost thirty thou- 

 sand dollars; farm house, four thousand dollars. 



So much for an institution which, throughout its course of study and 

 by every appliance of instruction, emphasizes the truth that one of the 

 most dignified and important of human emploj'ments is to feed and 

 clothe the world, and strives to make the workman worthy of his work. 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 



Nobly endowed and wisely planned to meet the educational wants of all 

 our leading industries, is likely ere long to rival Amherst in calling the 

 most distinguished agriculturists into her service, and by perfecting a 

 model farm, under the direction of Henry McCandler, late of the .Royal 

 Agricultural College of Scotland. The agricultural and mechanical 

 operations at Cornell have been carried on- mainly by students. They 

 have done a large amount of under-draining and other substantial work 

 during the present year, at the rate of ten cents per hour. As a class, 

 the President reports the working students in the voluntary labor corps 

 among the very best in the University. 



Among the many prizes to undergraduates it is noticeable that the 

 founder's prizes are, first, to the student of the Voluntary Labor Corps 

 on Agriculture who, without neglecting other University duties, shall 

 show himself most efficient, practically and scientifically, upon the Uni- 

 versity farm, fifty dollars; second in merit, twenty dollars; third, ten 

 dollars; second, the same amounts to meritorious students who excel 

 in the University workshops. 



The President's prizes fully recognize agriculture, one of fifty dollars 

 being offered for the best thesis or original investigation, fifty dollars for 

 meritorious student in botany and horticulture, with several others of 

 smaller value. The noble spirit of beneficence in which this industrial 

 University was begotten is self-perpetuating; gifts to meet its varied and 

 growing wants are pouring in; it needs only to be free and open to both 

 sexes to be worthy of its position in the Empire State. Opened in 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; it numbers eight hundred students. 



IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, 



Located at Ames, Storey County, was opened in eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-nine to both sexes, with a well developed labor system for house 

 and farm. All members are '• laborers " during the afternoon, at prices 

 ranging from five to ten cents per hour; has an excellent farm of six 

 hundred and forty acres; tuition free. General Capron reports this as 



