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the main farm and will be used for experimental purposes under the 

 direction of the professor of agriculture. A regular five years' course 

 of rotation of crops will be commenced the next season, and experiments 

 made with such as it is thought most desirable to improve. One hun- 

 dred varieties of potatoes have been raised on the farm and will be 

 made one of the crops for experiment next year. I^early all the work 

 on the farm has been performed by the students, only sufficient help 

 having been hired to insure constant labor during the season. Thirty- 

 three acres have been cultivated this year with fall-wheat, 9 with rye, 

 25 with barley, 17 with oats, 18 with corn, 4 with sowed corn, 1 with 

 roots, and 3 with garden vegetables. There have been kept on the farm 

 1 thoroughbred horse, 2 Clydesdale, 4 mixed breed, and several mules; 

 1 short-horn bull, a considerable number of short-horns in the Cornell 

 herd, of all ages, and dairy cows and swine of mixed breeds. The 

 Devon breed of cattle is preferred by this college for general purposes, 

 the Durham for crossing with native stock, and Ayrshire and Jersey for 

 dairy ; also Clydesdale horses, and Cotswold, Leicester, and Southdown 

 sheep. 



In addition to the instruction given to students by the professors in 

 the regular studies, twelve lectures have been given by Mr. H. A. Wil- 

 lard on dairy economy, twelve by Mr. C. Y. Riley, State entomologist 

 of Missouri, on economic entomology, and a course by Dr. Hexamer on 

 the i)hysiology and i^ractical culture of the potato, by Mr. E. W. Stew- 

 art on feeding cattle, by Mr. John J. Thomas on large and Mr. Andrew 

 Fuller on small fruits, and by Mr, James J. H. Gregory on market-gar- 

 dening. The agricultural museum and library have beeen largely in- 

 creased by liberal donations from various persons. The museum con- 

 tains over 150 varieties of v/heat, models of almost every kind of plow 

 now in use in any part of the world, besides numerous other farm-im- 

 plements of approved patterns. Mrs. Andrew D. White recently gave 

 a large bell, w-eighing 5,000 pounds and costing nearly $3,000, which 

 has been placed in the large stone tower of the McGraw building, with 

 the nine chime-bells given by Miss Jennie McGraw. Since the opening 

 of the university, in 1868, nearly $400,000 have been given to it by 

 private individuals. The amount of the university fund from all 

 sources up to the present time is $1,102,009, and the buildings are worth 

 $560,000, making the total value of the property $1,674,009, besides 

 the apparatus, cabinets, libraries, farm stock, &c. The regular annual 

 income from the university fund is $80,000, and it has received this 

 year $30,000 additional for tuition, rent, and advances from the Cornell 

 contract. 



The number of students in the College of Agriculture for the collegiate 

 year ending in June, 1872, is 207, and in the university, 525. 

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NORTH CAROLINA. 



Universiiy of Xorth Carolina — Agricultural and JTechanical College, at 

 CMpel EiU.—The organization of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege, established by the act of February 11, 1867, in connection with 

 the University of North Carolina, has not yet been effected. The exer- 

 cises of the university were suspended in 1870, but information has been 

 received that an effort is being made to resume them at an early date ; 

 and, if successful, aetion will probably be taken for organizing the col- 

 lege as soon as the funds can be made available. 



