428 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Under Agricultural Chemistry will be considered Composition of Soils, Relations of 

 Air and Moisture to Vegetable Growth, Food of Plants, Chemical Changes during Vege- 

 table Growth, Chemistry of Farm Processes, Methods of Improving Soils, and various 

 other topics which may properly be treated of under this department. 



Other departments of science will bo studied and taught, so far as may be, with special 

 reference to their practical bearing, or their relations to Agriculture aud the useful 

 arts. 



LABOR. 



It is a peculiarity of the College, that it makes provision for labor, thus combining 

 practice with theory, manual labor with scientific culture. Students in this Institution 

 are required to labor a certain portion of each day, not exceeding three hours, for five 

 days in the week. 



The labor is designed to be, in the fullest sense possible, educational. To illustrate, 

 when the members of a class are pursuing Botany, they will work in the gardens and 

 orchards, under the direction of the Professor of Horticulture, thus rendering them- 

 selves familiar with the various forms of hand labor, and the various processes necessary 

 for the successful prosecution of this art ; and when they have become proficient in this 

 department, their places will be supplied by other^ and they will engage in some other 

 form of labor until every student shall become familiar with all the forms of labor upon 

 the farm and in the gardens and workshops. 



Students will learn the use of tools and acquire a fitness for mechanical pursuits, under 

 competent instructors, in the workshops to be provided for the study and practice of the 

 Mechanic Arts. 



LOCATION. 



The College has a pleasant and healthful location intermediate between the villages of 

 Orono and Upper Stillwater, and about a mile from each. Stillwater river, a tributary 

 of the Penobscot, flows a short distance in front of the buildings, forming the western 

 boundary of the College farm, and adding much to the beauty of the surrounding 

 scenery. 



The European and North American Railroad, over which trains pass several times 

 each day, has a station at the village of Orono. The College is within nine miles of the 

 city of Bangor, and is consequently easily accessible from all parts of the State. 



FARM AND BUILDINGS. 



The College Farm contains three hundred and seventy acres of land of high natural 

 productiveness and of great diver.-ity of soil, and is, therefore, well adapted for the ex- 

 perimental purposes of the Institution. 



The building which has been used as a Dormitory for the two years past, contains 

 eighteen rooms, aud affords excellent accommodations for a limited number of students. 

 Some of the lower rooms of this building are appropriated to general and class purposes. 



The new Dormitory, now in process of erection, will bo completed before next autumn, 

 and will contain forty-six rooms. The Boarding House, also in process of erection, near 

 the other College buildings, will be open to students at the commencement of the next 

 term. With these new buildings, the Institution will furnish desirable accommodations 

 for one hundred and twenty-five students. 



The Chemical Laborarory is essentially completed and contains two apparatus rooms, 

 a lecture room, a cabinet, a library and weighing room, a recitation room, and rooms for 

 analytical and other purposes, and is in all respects admirably adapted to the wants of 

 the Chemical and Minoralogical departments. 



