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Mr. Geo. W. Phillips, of Romeo, came upon the Board by appointment of 

 Gov. Baldwin, in 1871, and has been reappointed by Gov. Croswcll. He is 

 well known as a prosperous farmer, as having been for many years — ten at 

 least, I do not know how many more — a member of the Executive Committee 

 of the State Agricultural Society and usually acts as superintendent of the 

 stock at the fair. He is a breeder of Short-horns, and has an acquaintance, 

 not only with the management, but with the families and pedigrees of stock 

 that make his services of great value to us. His connection Avitli the State 

 Agricultural Society, as does that of Mr. Childs, also serves as a bond of friend- 

 ship between us and that Society additional to the community of our interests. 

 There exists, I believe, the most cordial good will between the College and the 

 Society. Mr. Phillips is Chairman of the Committee on Farm Management. 



Mr. Franklin Wells of Constantine is the next name on our general cata- 

 logue. He was appointed by Gov. Bagley in 1873. As chairman of the Col- 

 lege Committee on Finance he seems to me to be as nearly perfect as a man 

 can be. His acquaintance with business affairs is extensive and accurate to a 

 remarkable degree. He keeps in mind the state of the accounts of each de- 

 partment of the College, solves the perplexities that arise in the complicated 

 business of a school that is also a farm, and audits every account that is paid 

 by the institution. I do not believe his private business receives a more careful 

 scrutiny than do the affairs of the College. 



I know better than any one else what this means. For ten years previous to 

 Mr. Wells' advent on the Board each officer brought his accounts in person to 

 me to have them audited. We ran through them item by item, and I spent 

 a full half of the long winter vacation in classifying these items and draw- 

 ing up one full statement of the College receipts and expenditures. A new 

 system of accounts and of auditing throws this burden, — a great one, — upon 

 the Secretary of the Board and the chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. 

 Wells has a quick appreciation of the beauty of good stock and good farming, 

 and takes a keen interest in every department of the College. 



Mr. A. Smith Dyckman was appointed to a place on the Board in 1873. He 

 was President of the State Pomological Society, and is well known as one of 

 the largest and most successful fruit-growers of the west. He is known also 

 as a public spirited man, awake to the interests of whatever advances a com- 

 munity in education. He is the chairman of the committee on the Horticul- 

 tural Department of the College. 



Mr. Milton J. Gard was appointed in 1875 by Governor Bagley. The Gov- 

 ernor was looking for a farmer of acknowledged success, whose intelligence was 

 keeping pace with his success, and found him in Mr. Gard, a gentleman well 

 known in his own part of the State. Mr. Gard is on the Committee on Farm 

 Management, and heads the Committee on Employes. 



Under the charge of these six men, in sympathy with all the work of the 

 farmer, zealous for his enlightenment and prosperity and dividing the com- 

 mittee work among themselves, is the farmers' College of the State. How could 

 one better it? 



THE FACULTY. 



The charge of the education, and of the labor of students, is committed to 

 a Faculty consisting of a president, six professors, and a secretary, assisted by, 

 at present, one assistant in chemistry, two farm foremen, and a gardener, a 

 garden foreman, and a carpenter. The salary paid the president is $3,000, 



