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chemistry, structure and physiology of plants, water, the atmosphere, 

 soils in tlieir relation to vegetable products, improvement of the soil 

 by chemical and mechanical means; history, care, breeding, diseases, 

 food, digestion, respiration, assimilation, and excretions of domestic 

 animals; milk, butter, cheese, flesh, and wool as agricultural prod- 

 ucts; development and present condition of agriculture as an art, 

 its princii)les, economic requirements of vegetable growth, soils and 

 theory of manures, plowing, physical manipulations of laud, imple- 

 ments and machinery ; drainage, construction, and arrangement of farm 

 buildings ; care of grass and pasture lands, rotation of crops, use of arti- 

 ficial fertilizers, designs for farm-machinery, meteorology, farm and road 

 surveying, water-courses for irrigation and draining, book-keeping, free- 

 hand drawing and sketching, strength of materials, practical hydraulics 

 and pneumatics, mineralogy, geology, zoology, insects injurious and 

 beneficial to agriculture ; care and marketing of crops; orchard and vine 

 culture ; Latin, French or German, and military tactics. 



It is prescribed, " as a permanent rule of this college, that no appli- 

 cant for admission as a student shall be received unless of the white 

 race." Provision is made for educating, free of tuition, " State students," 

 as follows: Two to be appointed from the State by the United States 

 senators, one i'vom each congressional district by the member repre- 

 senting it, and three from each State senatorial district. In the latter 

 case, the choice is to be determined by a competitive examination under 

 the direction of the district senator. Tuition for other than State stu- 

 dents is $59 per annum. The estimated expenses of a State student 

 for a year of nine months, including matriculation-fee, board, washing, 

 fuel, lights, two suits of clothing, and medical attendance, are $200; 

 of other students, $2o0. 



Special care is taken to give thorough instruction in military tactics, 

 including, besides the general drill, guard duty and outpost- picket 

 service. To aid in teaching this branch in the best manner, the State 

 has provided the students with complete sets of breech-loading cadet- 

 rifles, swords, and accouterments. 



In August of the present year an act was passed by the legislature 

 to establish another agricultural and mechanical college for the educa- 

 tion of colored youth of the State, and the college will be organized and 

 put in operation at the earliest day practicable. 



The annual income from the proceeds of the congressional land-scrip 

 is $10,062 in gold, which, in the present currency, is equal to about 

 $12,000. The land appropriated by the State to the college, and on 

 which the college buildings are located, embraces 2,200 acres, a jjart of 

 which is used for an experimental farm, and the remainder is unim- 

 proved. The entire tract is valued at $20,000. Liberal appropriations 

 have been made for chemical and philosoi)hical apparatus, and it. is 

 intended to purchase such as will be equal in quality to the best used iu 

 the agricultural colleges of the other States. 



Professors, 6 ; students, 50. Suflicient time has not been given for 

 the organization of classes iu the agricultural course of study* 



VERMONT. 



University of Vermont and State AgricuU'ural CoUefje, at Burlington; 

 Matthew H. BiicMam, A. M., fresideyit. — The college has not yet entered 

 into the work of conducting an experimental farm, although it has land 

 in ample quantity for exi)erimental purposes, and would gladly use it 

 tor a farm if the funds could be procured to provide the necessary equip- 



