342 REPORT OF THE COifMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



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formulated. The ores employed in these analyses were of great purity, 

 bavin^L;- in no case yielded less than 99 per cent, of lead. The associated 

 minerals were arsenic, antimony, silver, copper, iron, cadmi'im, zinc, and 

 nickel. It is thought by the director of the school that the results 

 arrived at by these analyses will very much increase the value of the 

 industrial resources of the State. 



Mai)s of surveys of mines and drawings of furnaces and reduction- 

 works have been made by the more advanced students, and display much 

 art and skill in their preparation. The school received, as its share of 

 the annnal interest derived from the proceeds of the congressional laud- 

 grant, 81,022, None of the laud has been sold during the year. 



Professors, o; assistants, Ij students, 70. 



NEBRASKA. 



University of N'ehraslca — Agricultural College at Lincoln ; Rev. Edmund 

 B. Fairfield, J)D., LL. 1)., chancellor. — The present chancellor was inaugu- 

 rated on the 22d of June, 187G, and his inaugural address, is given in the 

 register of the university for 187G. He shows what, in his opinion, a uni- 

 versity in this country ought to be. Of the agricultural college he says : 

 "You have done well in attaching the agricultural department to the 

 State university. Scientific agriculture belongs of right to every univer- 

 sity arrangement, especially in a country of which agriculture is so im- 

 portant and general an interest as it is with us." 



None of the congressional laud-grant of July 2, 1862, has been sold, 

 and the expectation is that it will not be disposed of for some time to 

 come. The land is rapidly increasing in value, and by a provision of 

 the new constitution of the State none can be sold for less than $7 per 

 acre. In consequence of this foresight in withholding the land from 

 sale a large endowment-fund will accumulate. The State received 

 another grant of 41,800 acres from Congress for the establishment of the 

 university, and it is estimated by the president of the board of regents, 

 Mr. S. J. Tuttle, that the ag'gregate endowment-fund of the college 

 and university will amount to at least $1,000,000, and very probably to 

 $1,500,000, when the land is all sold. The university building and grounds 

 were i)aid for by the proceeds of the sale of lots in Lincoln, and the 

 experimental farm, consisting of 320 acres, by the sale of two sections 

 of land granted by the State for that purpose. The farm is valued at 

 $18,422. Experiments have been made on it during the year to deter- 

 mine the effect of fall and spring plowing on crops; with grasses, to 

 ascertain what kinds are best adai)ted to the clituate of Nebraska ; with 

 oats, wheat, and barley, received from the Department of Agriculture j 

 aud with mangel-wurzels and sugar-beets, to learn which would be the 

 most profitable for stock-feeding. A slight change has been made in 

 the manual-labor system, by which students, instead of doing any labor 

 that may came to hand, are to have special charge of certain kinds of 

 work, under the oversight of the su[)erintendeut, to be responsible for 

 the manner in which it is performed and for the results obtained, and to 

 keep an exact account of the expenses and labor bestowed upon it. 

 Students are paid for their labor ten to fifteen cents per hour, according 

 to the work done. 



Professors in the college, 5; students, 13; professors in all the depart- 

 ments, 9;. students, 282; J 22 of whom are ladies. 



NEVADA. 



Nothing has boon done during the year in. relation to the establish- 

 ment of an agricultural and mechanical college in this State. Applica- 



