70 STATE BOARD OF AGEICULTUEE. 



is seen in the fact that an increasing number of our graduates^ after a four 

 years' course, go into agriculture in some of its branches. The general cata- 

 logue issued this year and stitched in with the annual catalogue sliows, out of 

 one hundred and twenty living graduates, that forty-two are farmers, seven are 

 fruit-growers, and eleven are professors and instructors in agricultural colleges. 

 This is as large a proportion, it is believed, as law schools in the west send into 

 the practice of the law. The class historian of the present senior class, that is 

 to be graduated from the College the 22d of November next, says that thirteen 

 out of seventeen of the class have fixed ujion agriculture, in some of its branches, 

 as a life business. 8ome of these came with no such intention, but have been 

 brought to it through the general influence of the College. 



The combination of work and class-room duties throws upon our professors 

 an amount of labor that cannot be easily appreciated by those who measure the 

 duties of a professorship by those in ordinary colleges. 



The Faculty of the College has remained unchanged, except that Mr. R. C. 

 Carpenter, the instructor in Mathematics, having received his appointment by 

 the Board, instead of acting under the appointment of tlie President, has be- 

 come a full member of the Faculty. 



The officers have consisted of the President, five Professors, the Secretary, one 

 Instructor and five Assistants and Foremen. The President is also Professor of 

 Mental Philosophy and Inductive Logic. The Professor of English Literature has, 

 in addition to vvork enough for one man in his own department, French and Po- 

 litical Economy. Tlie attaining of accuracy and clearness in the expression 

 of one's knowledge and opinions is too valuable an accpiisition, both on its 

 own account and for its reflex influence on the habits of observation and 

 thought, to be made subordinate to other studies, and I sincerely hope such 

 additional force may be granted at this time, as shall free the Professor from the 

 larger part of the work outside of his department. 



Each of the deiiartments should stand apart from the others. There is 

 enough work in each one to employ the best efforts of one oflicer. I am desir- 

 ous that the Botanical department should be possessed of a good working lab- 

 oratory, and that the Professor of Zoology and Entomolgy sliould be relieved 

 of all instruction outside of his department. Tliere is enough work in aj^plied 

 Mathematics for one instructor, and when the institution can afford it he 

 should have no other classes to hear. 



Towards the last of last year the Professor of Agriculture, Mr. A. B. Gulley, 

 was severely poisoned, and the suffering from this cause lasted i\]} to the autumn 

 of this year, and interfered somewhat with the regularity of his attendance. 

 During the spring term he gave instruction to the senior class in Agriculture. 

 Owing to circumstances just named, the course was a short one. "The Handy- 

 Book of Husbandry," by Geo. E. Waring, Tr., and other works on special sub- 

 jects, were made the guides to free class-room discussions. The class has, from 

 its first year, manifested great earnestness in the study of agriculture. 



During the second term. Prof. Gulley gave instructions in agriculture to the 

 Freshman Class. Waring' s Drainage for Profit was used as a text-book in that 

 subject, and the Avork of Goodale, the articles by Law and other writers used as 

 guides in the matter of stock-breeding, and other subjects. 



The assistant in Chemistry was permitted to be absent a part of the first term 

 to help the Professor of Chemistry in Kansas Agricultural College, during a 

 season of sickness. His place was supplied by an undergraduate of the college. 

 Kansas Agricultural College has drawn from our graduates its Professor of 



