330 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



the buildings, the improvement of the college-grounds, and the experi- 

 mental farm. Aline pair of mules and the necessary tools for farm - 

 work have been provided, and a beginning has been made in clearing up 

 the farm for planting an orange-grove and other tropical fruits. 



The annual interest derived from the proceeds of the congressional 

 land-grant now amounts to $6,0G8, and is paid regularly in gold. The 

 college owns 4,000 acres of good land, mostly wild, which is valued at 

 $5,000, and the improvements already made at 82,500. Of this land, 

 2,320 acres, besides several village lots, were given by W. H. Gleason, 

 and 1,000 by W. E. ArQO. 



An avenue nearly two miles long and various cross-streets about 

 the buildings have been opened and are in good condition for travel. 

 An avenue has also been opened from Indian Kiver to Lake Washing- 

 ton, a distance of six miles. It passes through the college lands and 

 greatly increases their value. About one hundred lots in the village- 

 plat have been surveyed and will soon be put into the market for sale. 

 All the land, except what is reserved for the college grounds, park, and 

 experimental farm, will ultimately be sold for the benefit of the college. 

 College Place is opposite to College Park, and is designed for the site 

 of the main college edifice. The location is high, salubrious, and pic- 

 turesque. 



GEORGIA. 



University of Georgia — Georgia State College of Agriculture and the 

 Mechanic Arts, at Athens ; Rev. Henry IT. Tucher. JJ. Z>., LL. D., chan- 

 cellor of the university ; L. H. Charbonnier, A. 3L, president of tlie college. — 

 Ko important changes have been made during the year. A considera- 

 ble amount of apparatus has been i^urchased for illustration in natural 

 history and chemistry. The interest derived from the proceeds of the 

 congressional land-grant is now $17,010, of which $3,000 are paid to 

 the North Georgia Agricultural College, at Dahlonega. The college 

 farm contains CO acres, and is valued at $1,500, not including the stone 

 house on it, which originally cost $24,000. Experiments have been 

 made on the farm in the culture of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, and pota- 

 toes. The prominent agricultural studies with which the students are 

 required to become familiar are agiicultural chemistry, physics, mechan- 

 ics, botany, zoology, economics, geology, and jurisprudence 



It is proposed by the trustees to put in operation, as soon as means 

 will permit, a physical laboratory, in which students will have an oppor- 

 tunity of experimentally verifying tbe laws of mechanics and physics 

 illustrated in the lecture-room ; such as the laws of the mechanical 

 powers, friction, specific gravity, hydronomics, heat, electricity, and 

 magnetism. A large hall, 34 by 50 feet, is used by the students in 

 drawing. They are employed in this exercise during a part of the 

 course from one to two hours each day. The full course includes 

 orthographic and isometrical projections, development of surfaces, prac- 

 tical perspective, linear, free-hand, and object drawing, building and 

 architectural drawing, masonry drawing, drafting for carpenters, me- 

 chanical drawing, drawing and shading from solid objects, drawing 

 copies, as teeth of wheels, details of the steam-engine, lathes, drilling 

 machines, pumping-machines, and hydraulic-presses. The students are 

 exercised in military tactics three times a week during tbe year. The 

 State legislature, at its last session, granted to the university two hun- 

 dred stands of arms, to be used by the students of the State college and 

 the academic departments. One hundred stands have already been 

 received. All the students of these departments are required to take 

 part in the regular military drills unless excused for satisfactory reasons. 



