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a mixed course of study had been pursued. The instructor in agricul 

 ture was appointed in the latter part of this year. Considerable work 

 has been done on the farm the present season by hired help, but no or- 

 ganized system of labor for the students has yet been adopted. Thirty 

 acres of the farm have been cultivated with plowed crops during the 

 year, and sixty acres are devoted to grass. No orchard has yet been 

 planted. Three hundred bushels of corn, 496 of oats, 125 of potatoes, 

 8 of beets and carrots, and 80 tons of hay have been raised this season. 

 No experiments have been conducted on the farm as yet, nor has any 

 attention been given to the improvement of stock. Both these subjects 

 will receive the attention of the college as soon as the diflerent depart- 

 ments can be brought into complete working order. 



The number of students in the university during the scholastic year 

 1872 is 354 -, of this number 117 are pursuing agricultural and mechan- 

 ical studies. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



University of Mmissippi — College of Agriculture and the MecJianio 

 Arts, at Oxford, Rev. John N. Waddel, D. D., chancellor. — This college 

 was opened October 2, 1872, and its object will be to teach agriculture as 

 a profession, requiring varied knowledge and a liberal education, and not 

 to turn out mere apprentices to the art of agriculture. The college-farm 

 is beautifully located and well adapted to the requirements of agricul- 

 ture, horticulture, and botanical experiments. It contains 110 acres, and 

 was given to the college by the university from the lands formerly do- 

 nated to the latter institution by the county of La Fayette. Twenty 

 acres have been cultivated with plowed crops for about five years by 

 parties unconnected with the college, and the land is now in good tilth. 

 An additional tract of ninety acres, one-half of which is cleared, has 

 just been inclosed with fence, and will be brought under cultivation im- 

 mediately. Instruction in practical agTiculture will be given to students 

 on the farm under the direction of the professor of special and practical 

 agriculture. They will be required to perform manual labor so far only 

 as may be requisite for a thorough knowledge of the objects and mode 

 of performance of agricultural operations, and to acquire familiarity 

 with the use of farm-implements. Beyond this, farm-labor will not be 

 imposed upon them, but they will be encouraged to engage in it, and be 

 compensated at customary rates for any labor they may perform. They 

 will also receive instruction in the special agTiculture and geology of the 

 State, in aid of which they will have the benefit of an extensive collec- 

 tion of soils, subsoils, marls, and rocks gathered during the State agri- 

 cultural survey. A botanical garden, with green-house and propagating 

 pits, under .the direction and superintendence of the professor of botany, 

 will be connected with the farm and form an important part of the 

 general equipment of the college. Five thousand dollars have been 

 appropriated by the trustees to make a beginning in the improvement 

 of the farm and carrying out these objects ; and it is expected that the 

 legislature of the State will render additional assistance. AgTicultural 

 experiments will be carried on in connection with the farm and garden to 

 such an extent as may be compatible with the requirements of instruc- 

 tion and the means at command. For the present the buildings, labor- 

 atory, apparatus, and library of the university will be used by the 

 college and university in common, till jjro vision shall be made for the 

 former institution. 



The faculty of the college consists of the chancellor, already named; 



