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at $5,000. Esperiments have been made in the culture of yellow Mary- 

 land corn, Boyd's prolific cotton, and wtb clover. The results were very 

 satisfactory. Seventy-ti<ve acres have been under cultivation. There 

 have been raised 450 bushels of corn, 150 bushels of sweet-potatoes, half 

 a bale of cotton, 2,500 bundles of coru-fodder, and 1^ tons of hay. 



Prok'ssors, 2: assistant;-, 2; stndents, 57. None of the students pur- 

 sued the agricultural or mechanical course, but 14 were preparing to enter 

 upon it as soon as they were able to do so. 



MISSOURI. 



University of the State of Missouri — Agricultural and MecJia.nical Col- 

 lege, at Columbia; Samuel S. Laws, LL. D., president ; George C. Swalloic, 

 LL. B., dean of the college.-^^o important changes have taken place in 

 the college during the year. Some improvements have been made on 

 the university grounds, which are spacious and very tastefully laid out. 

 An engraving of the university builclings and a portion of the grounds 

 is here presented. The scientific building or agricultural and mechan- 

 ical college is a large edifice built of brick, 100 feet long, GO wide, and 

 three stories high, not including the stone basement. It contains twen- 

 ty-five rooms. Every room is supplied with water and gas, and the chem- 

 ical laboratory is equipped with the most recent and approved apparatus. 



The experimental farm contains G40 acres, and is valued at $60,000. 

 Experiments have been made in fruits, hedges, forest-trees, pear-blight, 

 and several wild plants, with the hope of developing some new princi- 

 ples which may be of benefit to agriculture. It Is the determination of 

 the college to enter more extensively upon experimentation "with farm- 

 crops than it has previously done. T&e lectures on agricultural chem- 

 istry, delivered to the junior class comprise a scientific exposition of the 

 production of organic matter within the plant, beginning with the struc- 

 ture of the vegetable-cell, and proving the ofiBce of chlurophyl to be an 

 apparatus for doing the chemical work in building up the plant. The 

 nitrogenous constituents of the plant are treated in reference to its or- 

 gans, to the nitrogenous fertilizers, and to the nitrogen of the air, lea-ding 

 to the consideJiation of the mineral matter or ash, to the growth of plants, 

 and to the soil. The chemical and physical properties of the soil, and 

 the relative values of the different fertilizers now in use, and their em- 

 ployment in cultivation as a paying investment, are fuMy discussed. 



The annual interest derived from the proceeds of the congressional 

 land-grant was $3,040, of which $2,018 were received by the agricultural 

 and mechanical college, and the remainder, $1,022, by the school of mines 

 and metallurgy, at KolSti. None of thcK^and has been sold during the 

 year. Several thousand dollars have been appropriated for apparatus 

 and large purchases made of books for the library. 



Professors in the agricultural and mechanical college, 7 ; assistants, 1 ; 

 students, 21; professors in all the departments, 17 ; assistants, 11; stu- 

 dents, 391, 70 of whom are in the school of mines and metallurgy. 



Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, at Rolla, {a department of the 

 University of the State of Missouri;) Charles P. Williams, Ph. J)., di- 

 rector. — This school co«:n bines theory with practice. In addition to the 

 duties of school-instructi®n, the director and iwofessors, with the assist- 

 , ance of the students, havi> done a large amount of work for the State 

 in the chemjical analyses of lead, copper, zinc, and iron ores from dilierent 

 mines of the State. The percentage of the several metals and the asso- 

 ciated minerals of the ores has beeo accurately ascertained. Seventeen 

 distinct analyses of lead ores, from different mines, have been made and 



