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OHIO. 



Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Columbus. — iDformation 

 lias been received from Hon. Joseph Sullivant, secretary of the 

 board of trustees, that this college has not yet been opened, but it is 

 expected that the faculty Avill soon be chosen, and that students will be 

 received for instruction at the commencemeRtof the antunin of 1873. The 

 experimental farm now contains 320 acres, and is valued at $112,000. A 

 farm superintendent has been employed during the present year, and a 

 part of the farm has been cultivated with wheat, barley, oats, corn, 

 potatoes, and hay. The special object had in view in its cultivation has 

 been to imj^rove its condition and to pay the taxes and ftirm -superin- 

 tendent. This has been accomplished and an additional profit realized. 

 The proceeds of the land-scrip are in the State treasury, and draw in- 

 terest at 6 per cent. A library has been commenced and about 300 

 volumes have been aollected. 



OREGON. 



Corvallis College — State Agricultural College of Oregon, at CorvalUs, 

 B. L. Arnold, A. M., president. — The land granted by Congress to this 

 agricultural college has been surveyed, and an act was passed by the 

 legislature at its last session, in September, 1872, ordering it to be sold ; 

 but it has not yet been disposed of, and consequently no aid has been 

 derived from this source. The number of State students who are to be 

 educated by the college without charge for tiiition has been increased 

 this year from 22, to which it was previously limited by law, to 60, and 

 an annual appropriation of $5,000 has been made by the State for the 

 payment of the salaries of the proitssors engaged in their instruction. 

 It has received onlj^ $2,000 from other sources. The college-farm con- 

 tains 30 acres, 24 of which are plowed land, 2 are devoted to orchard, 

 and 10 to mowing. The time spent on the farm this season has been 

 principally occupied in thoroughly plowing the land, and bringing it 

 into good tilth. About four acres have been cultivated with garden- 

 crops. Ten tons of hay have been raised, and corn, i>otatoes, peas, 

 beans, tomatoes, squaslxes, turnips, and beets, in small quantities. 

 About one-half the work on the farm has been done by the students, 

 who receive instruction in practical agriculture in the field from the 

 professors of the college. Nothing has been done in the improvement 

 of the stock as yet. 



The faculty of the college consists of the president, B. L. Arnold. A. 

 M. ; Joseph Emery, A. M., professor of mathematics; Hugh M. Finley, 

 A. B. ; James Liggett, professor of practical agriculture ; and Mrs. 

 a^esbit, M. S. Since the opening of the college, in 1868, six students 

 have completed the full course in agriculture, and four of them have en- 

 gaged in agricultural pursuits. A large number also have taken the 

 partial course, in order to qualify themselves for the business of prac- 

 tical farming in the shortest time possible. The number of students in 

 attendance in the agricultural college during the present year is 22; in 

 both institutions 165, being 22 more than last year. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Agrieidtural College of Pennsylvania, Centre County, Rev. James Calder^ 

 D. D., LL. D., president. — The report on this college is confined princi- 

 pally to the "college-farm." In addition to the "college-farm" there are 



