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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Avevasfe of classes in catalotrue. 



MILITARY DEPARTMENT. 



The Congressional grant of lands by a clause, "and including military 

 tactics" seems to require military dr. 11 in tiie College, and a State law (18G3) 

 created a "military department" in the institution, but made no provision 

 for defraying the expense of it. The State has a deposit of sixty stand of 

 arms and equipments at the College. A room has been fiited up iu the base- 

 ment of Williams Hall as an armory. 



The Board is in correspondence with the War Department in Washington 

 relative to an officer for giving instruction in Military Science and Tactics in 

 the College. 



On tlie outbreak of the rebellion the students formed a company, "The 

 Plow-boy Guiirds." The students were inexpensively uniformed, had diill, 

 and were once received upon the field and addi'essed by Governor Blair. The 

 company, in a body, visited the Hon. Wm. H. Stward, and were addressed by 

 him. 



Courses of lectures were also given the students in a body in field fortifica- 

 tions and military hygiene by Dr. Kt-dzie and othei' oificers, but of late years 

 the iiiilitary company has been a voluntary association, at times carried on 

 with some spirit, and at otiier [imes neglected. 



In 1880lciilK;d attention to the fact that the amount of interest now received 

 from the congressional land grant rendered it fitting to inquire what the 

 teims of the grant require of us in the way of military instruction. Since 

 that time a petition has been received, signed by nearly all the students, ask- 

 ing for the organization of such a department. 



VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



Instruction in veterinary science has been given to the two senior classes, 

 ISSO-I, 1S81-2, by Dr. A. J. Murray, Veterinary Surgeon, Detroit. It was 

 limited to six weeks daily lectures foi' each year. Dr. Murray w;is a pupil of 

 Doctois Law and Gamgee, and afterwards a lecture)* in the Royal Agricultural 

 College of England, and in E linburgh ; he was highly recointnended by Dr. Law, 

 of Cornell, as a lecturer. His position is but temporary. The Boaid con- 

 template extending the couise of lectures to a full term. A full year's course 

 would be better. Professor Cook covers, in lectures on C )niparative Anat- 

 omy and Physiology, a part of the ground of Veteimary Science. 



MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Estimates will he presented for a Mechasucal Department. Messrs. Key 

 nolds, of the Board of Agriculture, and Prof. Carpenter, of the faculty, wer 



