366 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Excursions have been made, as during the last year, to a large number 

 of machine-shops and mannfactories in the neighboring cities for in- 

 siiectiug the construction of the machinery, and the various processes 

 of manufacture performed by them. The board of instruction consists 

 of twenty professors, two assistant professors, and tw^elve instructors. 



The students in attendance during the present school-year are dis- 

 tributed as follows: Resident graduates, 5; regular students, fourth 

 year, 35 ; third year, 30 ; second year, 59 ; first year, 115; students not 

 candidates for a degree, fourth year, 19 ; third year, 35 ; second year, 

 30; first year, 13; in practical design, 16 — total 356, an increase of 

 92 over the past year. 



IVnCHIGAN. 



litate Agricultural College, at Lansing, T. G. Abbot, LL. D., president.^— 

 No essential changes have been made in this college during the present 

 year. The objects contemplated in providing the experimental farm, 

 ■which were to furnish to students facilities for labor, instruction, experi- 

 ments in the cultivation of crops, and improvement of stock, have been 

 kept steadily in view. Eighty-eight acres of the farm are cultivated with 

 X)lo wed crops, 37 are devoted to mowing, and 1 5 to orchard. Of the plowed 

 land 23 acres were cultivated with wheat ; 19 with oats ; 32 with corn, and 

 14 with turnips. Tbe students have done about four-fifths of the labor 

 performed on the farm. Special attention has been given to the selec- 

 tion and rearing of improved varieties of stock. Of cattle there have 

 been kept on the farm 17 short-horns, 13 Devons, 6 Ayrshires, 3 Gal- 

 loways, 1 Jersey ; of sheep, Southdown, Cotswold, Lincoln, Spanish 

 merino, and black-faced Highland ; of swine, Suffolk, Essex, and Berk- 

 shire. 



Since our last report 19,358 acres of the national land-grant have 

 been sold, making the whole number of acres now disposed of 47,232, 

 and increasing the endowment fund to $154,178, the interest of which 

 is applied to the support of the college. 



The number of students for the collegiate year 1872 is 131, of whom 

 5 are resident graduates, 5 seniors, 19 juniors, 36 sophomores, 53 fresh- 

 men, 9 specials, and 4 ladies. Since the first opening of the college QS 

 have graduated, and a large portion of them have devoted themselves 

 to agricultural pursuits. 



MINNESOTA. 



University of Minnesota — Colleges of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 

 at Mimieapolis, William W. Folwell, M. A., president. — Some changes have 

 been made in this university during the year. Eli P. Huggius, First 

 Lieutenant United States Army, has been appointed professor in mil- 

 itary science; M. B. Rhame, civil engineer, instructor in civil engineer- 

 ing and industrial mechanics; Dalston P. Stacy, instructor in agriculture 

 and French ; and H. W. Hach. instructor in English and natural sci- 

 ences. 



By an act of the legislature of the State approved February 29, 1872, 

 the college of agriculture and the mechanic arts was separated into two 

 departments, one called the College of Agriculture and the other the 

 College of the Mechanic Arts, each having a prescribed course of study 

 occupying four years. The College of the Mechanic Arts was opened 

 as a distinct branch of the university September 3, 1872, and the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture will be opened in 1873. Previous to this separation 



