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rcmuu(n-ative employmeut for students who may desire to pay ii portion 

 of their college expenses by their own industry. It is the intention of 

 the trustees of the college that the students shall be required to perform 

 nearly all the labor done on the farm. A beginning has been made this 

 year in the cultivation of the farm, and a few bushels of corn and pota- 

 toes have been raised. 



The number of students in attendance at the university since it was 

 opened is 112. 



MISSOURI. 



University of 3iissonyl — AgrlcAiUural and Meelianical College, at (Jolum 

 bia, Baniel Bead, LL. D., president — The facilities for instruction in this 

 college have been very much enlarged during the present year. The 

 "Scientific Building/' referred to in our last report as being in process 

 of erection, has just been completed at an expense of 850,000. It is 

 designed expressly for the use of this college, and contains a large 

 working laboratory, two large cabinet-rooms, three lecture-rooms, chem- 

 ical-apparatus rooms, three private studies for the proiessors, two agri- 

 cultural-work rooms for grafting, tVc, janitor's room, and wash-room, all 

 of which are elegantly iinished and furnished. Three ]irofessors have 

 been added to tiie faculty, wliieh, as now constituted, consists of the 

 president of the university, named above; George C. Swallow, A. M., 

 M. D., dean of the faculty; Joseph (1. Noi'wood, M. 1)., professor of 

 chemistry, physics, anatomy, and physiology; Joseph Fickliu, A. M., 

 professor of mathematics, mechanical philosophy, and astronomy ; E. 

 L. Eipley, A. M., i>rofessor of drawing and book-keeping ; Major J. 

 Wilson MclMurray, A. ]\r., professor of military science and tactics, and 

 farm-engineering ; J. K. Hosmer, A. IM., professor of rhetoric and 

 English literature ; Paul Sweitzer, A. M., professor of analytical and 

 applied chemistry; Scott Hayes, assistant teacher in horticulture; 

 Stephen 0. Ilogers, assistant teacher in agriculture ; Charles Y. Eiley, 

 lecturer on entomology ; Detmers, lecturer on veterinary sur- 

 gery; Thomas Maddex, farm superintendent ; lion. Norman J. Colmau, 

 Hon. James S. Eollins, and lion. Paul Hubbard, farm committee. 



The college-farm contains GOO acres, CO of which are cultivated with 

 plowed crops, 7 are in orchard, and 15 in meadow. It cost $00,000. 

 The system of subsoil plowin"' and manuring with stable and compost 

 manures has been adopted. The students are instructed in practical 

 agriculture, and have performed about three-fourths of the work done 

 on the farm during the present year. Experiments have been made in 

 comparing the results of diiferent varieties of corn, tomatoes, and pota- 

 toes planted early and late, and with and without manure. There have 

 been raised on the farm the present season 500 bushels of corn, 200 

 bushels of oats, 200 bushels of potatoes, 10 tons of hay, 5,000 pounds 

 of grapes, which were sold, and also many garden vegetables. The only 

 stock kept on the farm are for work. The blooded stock, composd of 

 short-horns and Ayrshires, have all died of the " Texas fever." The 

 Alderney cows are preferred by this college for family use in Missouri, 

 and Ayrshire and short-homs for the dairy. Tlie short-horns must, 

 however, have a rich soil, mild climate, and a level country to acquire 

 the greatest excellence. 



The college has received this year from the State -*^10,000 for appa- 

 ratus and 5,000 for library. Only a small quantity of tlie land granted 

 by Congress has been sold for cash. Some has been sold on time and 

 some leased, and interest paid annually on the value of the laud thus 

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