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rotation of crops, deep plowiuj?, heavy inauuriug', thorough puherizatioii 

 of the soil before planting and sowing, rolling, and in hoed crops shallow 

 but constant cultivation for the purpose of keeping the ground clear of 

 Aveeds and admitting air and moisture. 



Experiments have been made in the use of stable manures, lime, 

 plaster, and ashes ; in subsoiling ; effects of rolling ; methods of plant- 

 ing oats, as by sowing broadcast, plowing in, and drilling; in seed-corn 

 taken from the but, top, and center of the ears ; in testing the adapta- 

 bility of seeds received from the Department of Agriculture and other 

 sources to the climate of Kansas ; and in the effect of summer fallows 

 on wheat sown this fall, the results of which will appear next year. 

 There have been raised on the farm this year 2,450 bushels of corn on 

 35 acres, averaging 70 bushels per acre ; 1,500 bushels of oats on 30 

 acres, averaging 50 bushels per acre ; 120 bushels of rye on C acres, 

 averaging 20 bushels per acre ; 300 bushels of beets and mangolds ; 500 

 bushels of potsatoes ; 30 tons of Hungarian hay on 13 acres ; 3 tons of 

 clover and timothy on 3 acres -, 15 tons of prairie hay on 15 acres. Over 

 90 bushels of corn, averaging 72 pounds per bushel, were raised from 

 one acre. Trial plots of oats produced 33 to 62 bushels per acre. Two- 

 fifths of the work done on the farm and four-fifths in the horticultural 

 department have been performed by the students, laboring two hours 

 daily, under the direction of the superintendent of the farm and the de- 

 partment of horticulture and the foreman of the laboring corps. To 

 further facilitate the instruction of the students, frequent botanical, 

 geological, and entomological exciu'sions have been made to different 

 localities in company with the professor of the natural sciences. 



The number of students in attendance during the collegiate year 1872 

 is 200. Since the opening of the college 13 students have graduated, 

 nearly all of whom were farmers or the children of farmers. 



IvENTUCKY. 



Kentucky UaivernUy — AyyicuUnral and Mcvlianical College, at Lexing- 

 ton, John B. Boicman, A. J/., regent, — A change has been made during 

 the present year in the faculty of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege, by which S. M. Swiiigent and II. S. Williams take the places of 

 C. Hale Tebbetts and T. V. Muuson respectively. One hundred and 

 twenty acres of- the farm are devoted to ploweji crops, 200 to mowing, 

 and 5 to orchard. Nineteen- twentieths of the labor performed on the farm 

 has been done by the students, for which they have received pay. In- 

 struction has been given to them in the operations of the farm, and 

 some experiments have been made, but none are sufficiently matured to 

 be of special value to report. Forty-five tons of hemp, 20 bushels of 

 corn, and 30 of rye have been raised on the farm the present season; 

 also, potatoes and vegetables for market. Several cows of the Durham 

 breed, for dairy i^urposes and the sale of milk, a number of horses for 

 work, and some hogs of the Berkshire and Cheshire breeds are kept on 

 the farm. The Durham breed of cows is preferred by this college for 

 dairying in Kentucky. The li%^ stock kept upon the farm is vr.hied at 

 $5,000, the crops at $5,000, and the farm-implements at $1,000. 



The number of students in attendance at the Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College during the collegiate year 1872 is 217. 



LOUISIANA. 



The situation of this State in reference to the disposition of the pro- 

 ceeds of the congressional land-scrij) remains nearly the same as last 



