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tiite, and established it at Orangeburgh, iu eoniiectioD with the Ckifliu 

 Uuiversity, with the express condition that the college shall have no 

 connecriou whatever with, nor be in any way controlled by, a sectarian 

 denomination. Students are to be admitted into the colk-ge from each 

 county, after a competitive examination among the scholars belonging 

 to the public schools iu such county iu proportion to the number of the 

 representation in the legislature. The college has not yet been opened, 

 but the trustees are engaged in organizing the faculty, and the time 

 fixed for opening is the 7th of January, 1873. Xo income has thus far 

 been received from the sale of the land-scrip, but the proceeds will soou 

 be in an available condition. The investment has been so made in bonds 

 of the State of South Carolina that the 8130,500, for which the land- 

 scrip was sold, now constitute a fund of about 8190,000, on which in- 

 terest at per cent, will be paid. The 1st of April of this year a col- 

 lege-farm was ijurchased by the trustees, containing lli3 acres, for 89,000, 

 and 25 acres were cultivated the present season, principally by hired 

 labor. The crops raised were cotton, corn, rice, and sweet-potatoes. Xo 

 purchases of stock have been made yet. 



The collegiate year is divided into three terms, commencing about the 

 1st <il January, April, and October, respectively. The number of stu- 

 dc If.- iii the university for the year 1872 is 108. 



TEXXESSEE. 



East Tennessee University — Tennessee Agricultural College, at Knoxville, 

 Thomas W. Humes, S. T. I)., j^'^sident. — Considerable attention has been 

 given by this college during the present year to the cultivation and im- 

 provement of the experimental farm, 70 acres of which have beeu 

 plowed. Of this number, -iO acres have beeu cultivated with plowed 

 crops, and 30 sown down with clover and other grasses for next year's 

 crop of hay. Fifteen acres are devoted to orchard. Xo hay has beeu cut 

 on the farm this year. There have been raised 288 bushels of wheat on 16 

 acres, averaging 18 bushels per acre : i80 bushels of corn on 12 acres, 

 averaging 40 bushels per acre ; aud 20 acres were sown with oats, which 

 were reduced in quantity owing to excessively dry weather iu May. Xo 

 system of labor has beeu adopted requiring students to engage iu the 

 cultivation of any of the crops raised on the farm. They aj-e taken from 

 the school-room into the fields where the crops are being cultivated, and 

 are taught how and why the ditiferent operations are performed, but the 

 work is done by hired men. The only manual labor in which the stu- 

 dents have engaged is that of building fences and the construction of 

 roads. The sv stem of sub-soiling has been practiced with marked success. 

 Some experiments in growing wheat and corn have been made during 

 the year, the results of which will be given iu the annual report of the 

 college. Xo attention has thus far been given to the improvement of 

 stock, the ouly animals kept on the farm being two mules, which are 

 used for work. 



Sufficient time has not elapsed for the graduation of any students in 

 the agricultural course of study. For more than two years after the 

 organization of the Agricultural College in June, 1809, the legislature of 

 the State suspended its confii-matiou of the act of January 16, 1809, 

 ]iassed by the legislature of that date, aud withheld from the ti'ustees 

 the income from the congTessioual endowment invested in Tennessee 

 bonds. During the latter part of 1871 this embarrassment to the use- 

 fulness of the institution was removed, aud the income has been paid 

 ill warrants ou the State treasury ; but owing to the financial troubles 



