36 STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



The last item of interest is for five quarterly receipts, or fifteen months. 



The ^5(3,320 from salt spring lands is inclLuled in the total of receipts 

 frotn sale of lands. Exclusive of this the receipts from the sale of swamp 

 lands have amounted to $42,3U6.87. 



Tliat the appropriations of the State are liberal to other institutions as well 

 as to the Agricultural College can be seen from the following amounts of 

 approi)riations for 1882, taken from the Auditor General's statement, Oct. 5, 

 1882 



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To the University $120,500 00 



Normal School - 19,500 00 



Agricultural College 16,194 50 



State Public School 41,650 00 



School for the Blind 29,800 00 



Deal and Dumb 41,600 00 



The property of the College, exclusive of lands for sale, is, Sept. 30, ]882, 

 $338,471.55, an increase of $64,091.49 over the preceding inventory, Sept. 

 30, 1880. The amount of money appropriations to the College, less the 

 inventory, divided by 26, the number of college years, up to Dec. 30, 1883, 

 gives less than 18,500 a year. If from the total receipts of the College from 

 salt spring lands, swamp lands, legislative appropriations, and interest on 

 the land grant fund, we deduct the inventory, and then divide by 26 we get 

 less than $19,200 for the average current expenses of the College. 



Faculty and other Officers. 



Owing to the continuous presence of four classes at the College since Sept., 

 1880, some changes and additions were made in the departments. 



History, Political Economy, and Political Science were set off as a separate 

 field of instruction, and committed to the charge of George W. Harrower, A. 

 B., a graduate of Michigan University, Literary Department, 1878. Mr. 

 Louis G. Carpenter, a graduate of this College of the class of 1879, has acted 

 as Assistant in Matheinatics. A. J. Murray, Veterinary Surgeon, has given 

 a six weeks course in Veterinary Science and practice to each of the senior 

 classes of 1881 and 1882. Mr. Will S. Holdsworth, a graduate of the Col- 

 lege, 1878, gave instruction for one term in 1881, in instrumental and free 

 hand drawing. 



The Horticultural Department was under the superintendency of Dr. Beal, 

 Professor of Botany and Horticulture, in all the details of its labor and care 

 of its property, as well as in its instruction. In the spring of 1881 a change 

 was made, so that the instruction, the care of the arboretum, and the botanic 

 gardens remained in charge of Dr. Beal, while the out-of-door-wo)k was put 

 in charge of a Superintendent of the Horticultural Department, Mr. Louis 

 Knapper, a gentleman thoroughly educated for his work in German schools. 

 The greenhouse was not put in charge of Mr. Knapper, but has remained, in 

 its management, nearly independent of the other branches of the Horticult- 

 ural Department, and has made its reports to, and depended for its assign- 

 ments of labor directly on, the President of the College. Mr. James Cassidy 

 holds the place he has held for the last eight years. 



It gives me deep pain to have to record the loss by death, March 22, 1881, 

 of Henry E. Owen, of Adrian, the Assistant in Botany. Mr. Owen's high 

 moral qualities and other excellencies of character, his enthusiasm in the 

 study of botany, horticulture, and floriculture, and his exquisite taste made 



