384 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



of the State the wa-trauts have been considerably below par. Notwith- 

 standing these obstacles, the college is now doing a valuable work in 

 educating the youth, who are received from every part of the State. 



The number of students in attendance in the university during the 

 collegiate year 1872 is 228, of whom 38 are in the agricultural and 

 mechanical course. 



TEXAS. 



Agricultural and Meclianical College of Texas, at Bryan. — The Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College building in process of erection, as stated 

 in our report for 1871 : but the appropriation made for this purpose is 

 now exhausted, and nothing further can be done till additional means 

 are provided either by the legislature or by private donations. There 

 is some expectation that the legislature at its next session in January, 

 1873, will take the subject into consideration, and provide the means for 

 completing the building and putting the college into operation at an 

 early day. Eight hundred acres of land have been set apart for the use 

 of the college, but no farming has been commenced. The management 

 of the affairs of the college is placed in the hands of a board of admin- 

 istrators, consisting of the governor of the State, who is president, the 

 chief justice, and eight members appointed by the governor. H. Schiller 

 Sjoberg, of Austin, is secretary of the board. The college fund derived 

 from the congressional land-grant lias increased to $174,000. and is in- 

 vested in bonds of the State of Texas, paying 7 per cent, interest in 

 gold. 



VERMONT. 



University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, at Burlington, 

 Mattlmo E. Buckliam, A. M., inesiderit. — Ko material change has been 

 made in this college during the present year. Scientific agriculture has 

 been thoroughly taught, but we have not learned that any progTess has 

 been made in procuring a college-farm for the instruction of students in 

 I)ractical agriculture and for experimentation in the cultivation and 

 improvement of different crops. The experiment of admitting young 

 women to the academical and scientific departments of the university 

 has thus far proved entirely satisfactory. One was admitted in 1871 and 

 six during the present year. In confirmation of their views the execu- 

 tive committee of the board of trustees, in their report for 1871-'72, 

 quote from the report of President Angell, of Michigan University, 

 where the experiment has had a fair trial. He says, " Young women 

 have addressed themselves to their work with great zeal, and have shown 

 themselves quite capable of meeting the demands of severe studies as 

 successfully as their classmates of the other sex. Their work so far 

 does not evince less variety of aptitude, or less power of gi^applingeven 

 with the higher mathematics, thaii we find in the young men. They 

 receive no favors and desire none." The proceeds of the congressional 

 land-scrip are invested in Vermont State bonds, bearing 6 per cent, 

 interest, and yield an annual income of $8,580 for the support of the 

 agricultural college. A commencement has been made in improving 

 the college park and adjacent grounds, and the work will l)e pushed as 

 ra])idly as possible. 



The number of students in the college during the present year is 28, 

 and in the university 125. 



