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two sexes will have separate xooins for study and separate grounds, but 

 tbey will recite together. 



Hou. William P. Price, the present member of Cougress from the 

 Dahlonega district, is president of the board of trustees, and it was , 

 largely through his influence that Congress made the generous donation 

 of the building and grounds for the purposes of an agricultural college. 

 It is proposed to add to the property given by the National Government 

 a farm of about 70 acres near the college, which will make the real 

 estate belong-ing to the institution worth about $2,500. Board, with 

 good accommodations, can be obtained for $7 to $10 per month. 



ILLDTOIS. 



Illinois InclHstrial University, at TJr'bana, John M. Gregory, LL. D,, 

 regent. — This university owns two farms — one of 213 acres, called the 

 experimental farm, on which the university buildings stand; and the 

 other of 410 acres, called the model farm, located about a mile from the 

 university. Ten acres of the experimental farm are occupied by the 

 university grounds, 15 by the arboretum, 53 by the horticultural 

 grounds, 55 by the experimental apple-orchard, 20 by forest-plantations, 

 and 60 are devoted to field-experiments. Of the model farm, 154 acres 

 are cultivated with plowed crops, 14 are devoted to orchard, and 242 to 

 mowing and pasture. The object had in view in the cultivation of the 

 experimental farm is to aftbrd students an opportunity for experimenta- 

 tion and receiving instruction in the production and improvement of 

 agricultural and horticultural productions. Nearly all the labor per- 

 formed on this farm in the field-experiments and in the different 

 branches of the horticultural department is done by them. An effort 

 has been made to carry out the design of illustrating the teaching- 

 given in the class-room by practical labor in the field, garden, and 

 orchard. Some difficulty has been encountered, partly on account of 

 the feeling on the part of the students that the time occupied in this 

 exercise might be more profitably devoted to theoretical study, and 

 partly from the difficulty of providing illustrative labor for a large 

 number. Something, however, has been accomplished in this direction. 

 The professor of botany and horticulture requires his class in horticul- 

 ture to graft, set out, and take care of 1,000 apple-grafts each, annually. 

 The facilities for furnishing illustrations in agTiculture and horticulture 

 are enlarging in colisequence of the increasing care required in cultivat- 

 ing and pruning the experimental orchards, in the care of green-houses, 

 in which the female students are emi^loyed to considerable extent. It is 

 expected that in a short time plans will be so matured that all the objects 

 contemplated in the purchase of the farm will be fully realized. The 

 model farm is cultivated mostly by hired labor, and with the object of 

 l^resenting to the students a model farm for imitation in the successful 

 cultivation of crops for profit and for the raising and improvement of 

 stock. They occupy only a small portion of their time in labor on this 

 farm, and receive instruction in farm-work and the breeding and rear- 

 ing of animals. 



Sufficient time has not elapsed to enable the university to test fully 

 any system of agriculture adapted to its particular locality. One fact, 

 however, has been observed, that very shallow and often no breaking 

 up of the ground in the spring is necessary for good crops. One plot 

 has been cultivated with corn for four years in succession without any 

 preparation of the ground ej^oept the use of the harrow or cultivator, 

 and has yielded a good crop each y^ar. This appears to result from the 



