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The college-farm contains 100 acres, and is valued at $3,000. The 

 soil is naturally poor, but by skillful cultivation and manuring it has 

 been greatly improved. Crops of corn, wheat, oats, cotton, grasses, and 

 a great variety of vegetables have been cultivated during the year. Not- 

 withstanding the season was very unfavorable, in consequence of severe 

 drought, corn yielded 50 bushels, wheat 18^ bushels, and cotton 400 

 pounds per acre. The great success attending the efforts to improve 

 the fertility of the college-farm has excited much interest among the 

 neighboring farmers, and led to a general improvement of the agricult- 

 ure of the surrounding country. Similar success has attended the 

 labors of the superintendent of the experimental farm, called the Ex- 

 perimental Station, near Courtland, in the valley of the Tennessee 

 Eiver, referred to in our report for 1875. The superintendent says: 

 " The grasses are splendid, far exceeding my most sanguine hopes, and 

 came out of the drought unscathed, except timothy, which is not so 

 promising. They are the admiration of all who see them, and demon- 

 strate that ours is a grass-growing country. 



The college building, represented in the accompanying engraving, is 

 a fine brick edifice, 70 feet long, 60 wide, and three stories high above 

 the basement, and is said to be the best-constructed building in the 

 State. In the basement there are seven rooms, and twenty-six In the 

 stories above. They consist of lecture, recitation, professors' laboratory, 

 cabinet, library, drawing, reading, assembly, and ordnance rooms, and 

 a gymnasium. They are well finished and airy, those of the basement 

 being 10 feet high, of the first and second stories 17, and of the third 13, 

 and each of the towers is 85. The sum of $1,400 has been expended 

 during the year for improvements of various kinds and repairs on the 

 buildings. The annual interest derived from the proceeds of the con- 

 gressional land-scrip is nominally $20,280, but in consequence of the 

 depreciated State certificates in which it is paid the college actually 

 receives, on an average, only about $16,224. 



Professors during the collegiate year, 5 ; assistants, 2 ; students, 104; 

 IJursuing agricultural or mechanical studies, 80. 



ARKANSAS. 



ArMnsas Industrial University^ at Fayetteville ; N.P. Gates, A.M., presi- 

 dent. — The annual interest derived from the proceeds of the congressional 

 land-grant now amounts to $10,400. The experimental farm contains 

 160 acres, and is valued at $12,000. Experiments have been made 

 in testing the qualities and adaptability of Tappahannock wheat, 

 Surprise oats, and clover. Ten acres seeded to clover, which has 

 been considered a very doubtful crop in Arkansas, have yielded very 

 largely, and indications are that it will succeed well in that climate on 

 soil properly prepared. All the labor on the farm has been performed 

 by the students at prices varying from 5 to 10 cents per hour, according 

 to their efficiency or skill. 



Professors in the university, 9; assistants, 3; students, 270; students 

 in the agricultural course, 25 ; in the mechanical, 20. The professors give 

 instruction in common in the university and the agricultural and me- 

 chanical department. 



CALIFORNIA. 



University of California — Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanics, at 

 Berkeley; John Le Conte, M. D., president. — The course of study in the 

 college of agriculture has been so changed during the year as to include 



