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been made on grounds, farm, &c., to the amount of $4,239. Also, $3,442 

 were paid for apparatus and machinery, and $1,051 for books and peri- 

 odicals. The college is well supplied with apparatus for imparting in- 

 struction in agricuitnre and the mechanic arts. The farm is large, in 

 good condition, and well stocked ; and students in the mechanic arts have 

 an opportunity of worl^ng a part of each day at the bench, vise, lathe, 

 drill, or plauer. In the laboratory analyses have been made in various 

 soils, indigenous woods, and milk from the farm-cows. A large number 

 of forest and ornamented trees have been set out, two acres planted with 

 grapes, and four acres with orchard-trees of various kinds. 



The annual interest derived from the i)roceeds of the congressional 

 land-grant is now $20,314. The college farm contains 159 acres, and 

 is valued at $47,700. Experiments have been made in the culture of 

 various crops. One hundred and sixty bushels of Fultz wheat were 

 raised on five and one-third acres, 120 bushels of Alabama wheat on five 

 and two-thirds acres, 360 bushels of oats on ten acres, 1,950 bushels of 

 corn on thirty acres, 75 tons of hay on forty-five acres, and a large supply 

 of garden vegetables for the boarding-house daring the season and for 

 winter use. Five thorough-bred Jersey cattle and several Berkshire, 

 Essex, and Poland-China swine have been added to the live stock kept 

 on the farm. The herd of cattle now consists of five short-horns and 

 live Jerseys. The five short-horns cost $3,000. 



Professors in the university, 6; assistants, 2; students, 120; 16 of 

 whom are in the regular university classes, and the remainder, 104, are 

 in the preparatory department. Only one student has been pursuing 

 a course of agricultural studies, but it is i^robable that several now in 

 the preparatory department will enter ux^on this course when they are 

 properly prepared to do so. 



IOWA. 



loica State Agricultural College^ at Ames; A. S. Welch, LL. D.^in-esi- 

 detit. — It has been a prominent object of the trustees to make this college 

 really an agricultural and mechanical institution. Seven-eighths of the 

 branches taught have an immediate relation to agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts. During the year special courses have been prepared in 

 chemistry, botany, veterinary science, geology, x>hysics, and general 

 agriculture ; so that any student who desires to do so may become a 

 proficient in any one of them. A boiler-house has been erected and a 

 new heating apparatus put into the main college building, by which it 

 is heated throughout by steam. The building has also been thoroughly 

 repaired, at an expense of $15,000. The heating apparatus cost $11^000. 

 Seven pure blood short-horns have been purchased for the farm. 



The annual interest derived from the proceeds of the congressional 

 land-grant now amounts to $34,822. The number of acres of the grant 

 sold during the fiscal year is 5,950, at $2.20 per acre, and the number 

 remaining unsold is 175,244. The experimental farm contains 850 acres, 

 and is valued at $51,000. Experiments have been made with different 

 varieties of grain and corn, and with grasses; also, chemical analyses of 

 several of the cereals, as corn, oats, rye, and barley, have been made by 

 the chemist. Nearly all the heavy work on the farm has been performed 

 by students, largely from the freshman class, who have been paid for 

 their labor from 3 to 9 cents per hour. A few seniors, who have special 

 capacity for the business, are employed as foremen under the several 

 superintendents. At the spring of the year the young men are detailed 

 for manual labor, in convenient numbers, to the farm, garden, and work- 

 shop; and the youngwomen are appointed to the different departments 



