34 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



and house rent. The ])rofcssors receive 1^2,000, and house rent, and the others 

 various lesser sums. Various considerations weighed with the Board in mak- 

 ing no reduction of salaries consequent on a reduced income for the years 1877 

 and 1878. 



The cares and duties of the professors have been greatly enlarged with the 

 growth of tlie institution, without a corresponding increase in the number of 

 officers. 



The ofHicers are far more heavily pressed with work than is usual, or is 

 usually thought warrantable in those colleges in which a high class of scien- 

 tific instruction is given. They have also, at the beginning of the only vaca- 

 tion tliat exceeds a week in length, to prepare for, and in January, to hold a 

 scries of Farmers' Institutes, which, although a pleasant, is a laborious work, 

 that almost exhausts the time they would like, and should have for the prepar- 

 ation of lectures for the coming college year. 



I am sure no farmer or mechanic does, because no one can, devote more 

 time or severer effort, to his work than the otiicers of the college ; nor is their 

 work anything so exhausting to the health and nervous system as ours. The 

 officers surely earn, and are worth to the State all that is paid to them. The 

 Board have by severe economy, by a vacancy for some time unsup])lied, by the 

 abandonment of one office, and through otlier favoring circumstances, main- 

 tained the salaries at their old rate, as they thought justly due to men who 

 were giving all their time, and efforts, for the good of the 8tate. That these 

 efforts are not fruitless is now universally admitted by the farmers of the 

 State Avho have kept themselves informed as to the influence the College has 

 exerted . 



COURSE or STUDY. 



The course of study is four years in length. Students who take the full 

 course are graduated witii the degree of Baclielor of Science. The College and 

 its classes are. however, always open to students who come to take select studies, 

 and we have had many who after taking Chemistry and Jiotany and a few other 

 select branches have not cared, or not been able to complete the course. 



Tlio following is the course of study: 



FRESHMAN CLASS. 



Autumn Tcrni. — Algebra, Olney's University ; History, Swinton's Outlines; 

 Elements of llhetoric, D. J. Hill. 



Spring Term. — Algebra Completed, Olney's University; Book-keeping (three 

 weeks), Mayhew's Practical ; Botany, Gray's Structural ; Agriculture, JiCctures. 



Summer Term. — Geometry, Olney; Botany, Gray's Structural, Wood's Man- 

 ual; French, Otto's Grammar, Bocher; Elementary Chemistry (two weeks). 

 Lectures. 



SOPHOMORE CLASS. 



Autumn Term. — Geometry completed, Olney's; Elementary Chemistry, Lec- 

 Burcs, lioscoe; French, Bocher's Otto's Keader. 



Spring Term. — Trigonometry, Olney ; Surveying, Lectures ; Organic Chem- 

 istry, Lectures; Blowpipe and Volumetric Analysis; French, Bocher's Otto's 

 Reader. 



Summer Term. — Mechanics, Peck; Analytical Chemistry, Kedzie's Hand 

 Book. 



