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wide variation in the methods adopted "for the improvement and 

 encouragement of agriculture, horticulture and the mechanic 

 arts." According to the returns received at this office, one 

 Society awarded the sum of $119.00 on neat stock, $29.00 on 

 stallions and breeding mares, $45.00 on other horses and colts, 

 $36.00 on sheep, poultry and swine, $68.00 on grains, roots, and 

 vegetables, and upwards of $140.00 on other objects including 

 dairy products, fruits, agricultural implements, household manu- 

 factures and miscellaneous objects ; or a total of $441 with nothing 

 at all for trials of speed. Another Society reports $"7 awarded on 

 neat stock, $2 on roots, nothing on grains or other cultivated crops, 

 nothing for dairy products, fruits, implements or manufactures, 

 nothing for sheep or swine or poultry, nothing for stallions or 

 breewng mares, $45.00 for other horses and colts, and $205.00 on 

 trials of speed. Total amount awarded $261.00. The Secretary 

 in his report remarks that, " There seems to be a fatality attending 

 the days set for our exhibitions, as we have been for three years 

 past completely inundated, and last fall especially, it rained in 

 torrents, and we were obliged to give up our fair, which accounts 

 for the absence in my report of grains, roots and other crops, &c, 

 &c." But it seems, also, that the weather did not compel the 

 giving up of trials of speed, nor awards* of premiums on horses 

 not used for improvement of breeds. The trials of speed command 

 attention even uuder difficulties. 



State Industrial College. 



A very hopeful indication of good it is that the " State College 



of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts " is rapidly coming to be 



better understood by our people generally, both as to its intrinsic 



character and with respect to its true aims and the methods used 



to attain its ends. This is sufficiently indicated by the fact that 



the last class entering it was much larger than any previous one, 



together with the prospect that its means of providing for students 



will shortly prove inadequate to the demand. 

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