392 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



AVEST VIRGINIA. 



West Virijltiia University — Agricultural department at Morguutoicn, Rev. 

 Alexander Martin, I). D., president. — The experimental farm contains 

 about 25 acres, a j^art of which is occupied by the university buildings 

 and cami")us, 5 acres are cultivated with plowed crop, ?> are in orchard, 

 5 in grass, and the remainder in pasture. Owing to various embarrass- 

 ments little has been done thus far in agriculture. The trustees are 

 making an effort to purchase more land, and to furnish students better 

 facilities for the study of practical farming in the field. The labor sys- 

 tem adopted for tlie students is voluntarj'^, but it is the desire of the 

 faculty to make a more efficient organization as soon as possible, and to 

 carry out more fully the objects contemplated by Congress in the en- 

 dowment of agricultural colleges. A professor of agriculture, Yv^'illiam 

 M. Fontain, A, M., has just been elected, and has entered upon liis du- 

 ties. The university has two good buildings, which are occupied, and a 

 third in process of erection. Besides the income from the national 

 land grant it now receives annually $1G,000 from the State, and is free 

 from debt. The legislature has also appropriated $2,500 for the erection of 

 an armory to be constructed according to a plan furnished by the War 

 Department. It has received from the Patent-Oifice 1,000 models for 

 illustration in agriculture and the mechanic arts, and in mining engi- 

 neering, &c. ; and from the War Department 5,000 dollars' worth of ord- 

 nance and ordnance stores for the use of the military department. The 

 arms and equipments are all of the most improved and modern con- 

 struction. The museum has also been enriched by donations from the 

 Smithsonian Institution and other parties. 



The number of students in the labor corps during the present colle- 

 giate year is 22. In the university, 159. 



WISCONSIN. 



University of Wisconsin — College of Arts, at Madison,, Eev. J. H. 

 Twomhly, J). 1)., president. — This college has a farm of 234 acres, a 

 large portion of which is under cultivation. As we have not received 

 the annual report of the universitj^ for 1872 we are unable to give any 

 details of the farming and experiments which have been conducted on. 

 it during the present year. Facilities for instruction are constantly en- 

 larging, and the number of students is increasing. The number in the 

 college of arts, which includes the agricultural and mechanical studies, 

 has nearly doubled since last year. A department of mining and met- 

 allurgy has recently been established in the university, and is now fully 

 organized and ready for work. The design in this department is to 

 furnish instruction in the various operations necessary for the intelli- 

 gent anil successful working of mines and ores. Laboratories are i)ro- 

 vided and completely equipped for practical instruction in analytical 

 chemistry, and assaying and determinative metallurgy. In some par- 

 ticulars, and especially in the large assaying laboratory just fitted up, 

 this department of the university is said to have advantages not pos- 

 sessed by any other western institution. 



The female college forms an important feature in this university. 

 The course of study is similar to that in the college of arts, and is de- 

 signed to be fully equivalent to it. Ladies are also allowed to enter the 

 other colleges and departments of the university, and the same degrees 

 are conferred upon them as upon gentlemen for the satisfactory comple- 

 tion of any course of study. A pretty full account of this college was 



