332 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



ment ou various kinds of food. There is another farm called the stock- 

 farm. It contains 410 acres, and is valued at $40,000. A large stock- 

 barn has been i:)rovided for it, with fronts north and west, each 80 feet 

 long, and each limb or L is 40 feet wide, being fitted up with stables, 

 pens, yards, cooking-rooms, steam-boiler for steaming food, and engine 

 for grinding, thrashing, and cutting. This farm is designed more 

 especially for breeding and rearing all kinds of valuable stock, but is 

 also used to illustrate practical agriculture and to exhibit to farmers 

 a model farm. The barn on the experimental farm is of less size, 

 but is fitted up with great convenience, and supplied with a mill for 

 grinding feed, which is run by a large windmill. These farms have 

 been very sucessfuUy conducted during the year under the direction of 

 the head farmer, Mr. Edwin L. Lawrence, both in experiments and profit, 

 showing a balance of about 83,500 in their favor. 



The university claims to have made a larger exhibit at the Centennial 

 than any other institution of learning, for which it received a medal. 

 Medals were also awarded to it for a cabinet of the woods and minerals 

 of Illinois, which it collected. It also exhibited a collection of climatic 

 varieties of maize, obtained from the whole extent of the corn-gi'owing 

 region of the Xorth American Continent. The practical departments 

 are gaining in popularity and efficiency, and the number of students 

 is increasing. In the machine-shop the odontograph, referred to last 

 year, is now made in quantities for sale to the trade. Three other in- 

 ventions have been patented. A number of compound microscopes, 

 excellent working instruments of new patterns, are now being finished. 



Professors in the uuiveri^ty, 13; assistants, 14; students, 380; of whom 

 303 were gentlemen and S3 ladies; professors and assistants engaged in 

 giving instruction in agricultural and mechanical studies, 15; students 

 in agriculture and horticulture, 49 ; in mechanical studies, 138. 



INDIANA. 



Purdue University — Indiana Agricultural College, at La Fayette; Emer- 

 son E. White, LL. i>., president. — Judge John Purdue, who donated 

 $150,000 to the university, died on the 12th of September, 187G, in the 

 seventy-fourth year of his age. The money was to be paid in ten equal 

 installments of 815,000 each. At the time of his death six installments, 

 $90,000, had been paid, and the remainder, $00,000, was voluntarily 

 secured by him on a valuable tract of real estate situated in Warren 

 County. The university has been reorganized during the year, and now 

 embraces three departments : 1 the university academy; 2 the college of 

 general science ; 3 special schools of science and technology. The agri- 

 cultural and mechanical college is included in the last department, 

 which embraces the schools of agriculture and horticulture, civil engi- 

 neering, industrial design, physics and mechanics, chemistry and me- 

 tallurgy, and natural history. 



The buildings of the university now completed and in use are the 

 boarding-house, dormitory, laboratory, boiler and gas house, military 

 hall, gymnasium, farm-house, and barn. The barn has been built during 

 the year, at a cost of $4,000. It is 42 by CO feet, with stone basement, 

 and all the Improvements of modern construction. The rooms of the 

 dormitory are now used for recitation-rooms, cabinet, and library. 

 A large college building, with suitable rooms for recitation, chapel, 

 library, cabinet, and societies is now in course of construction. The 

 foundation-walls and basement-story are finished, and it is expected that 

 the building will be completed during 1877. Other improvements have 



