474. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
The annual income derived from the rental of lands granted by Con- 
gress amounts to about $35,000. The cabinet of the college comprises 
a collection of minerals and the Schaffer Zodlogical collection. The 
board of trustees have appropriated $2,000 for purchasing a chemical 
and philosophical apparatus, and $2,500 for the purchase of books for 
the nucleus of a library. é 
The college year commences early in March, and closes near the end 
of November, leaving the three winter months for the principal vaca- 
tion, which are profitably employed by many of the students in teaching 
in the winter schools. 
KANSAS. 
The faculty of the Kansas State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, 
consists of Rev. Joseph Denison, president, and professor of mental and 
moral science and political economy; J. S. Hougham, professor of agri- 
cultural and commercial science; J. W. Davidson, professor of military 
science and tactics and civil engineering, and teacher of French and 
Spanish; B. F. Mudge, professor of natural science and the higher 
mathematics; Rev. J. H. Lee, professor of the Latin and Greek lan- 
guages and literature; J. Evarts Platt, professor of mathematics and 
vocal music, and principal of the preparatory department; Miss Mary 
I’. Hovey, professor of the German language and literature; Mrs. Hat- 
tie V. Werden, teacher of instrumental music. 
About half the lands granted to this college by the national govern- 
ment have been sold, and the income from interest on the sales now 
amounts to $16,000 annually. The State has also this year made a do- 
nation of about $30,000, which sum is to be expended principally in de- 
veloping the agricultural department. It is hoped that this aid will se- 
cure an enlargement of the farm to 400 acres. It is proposed to add a 
department of veterinary science as soon as the funds will permit. 
The organization of the labor system among the students has been 
improved, and twenty acres of green-sward land have been broken up 
and added to that previously under cultivation, making, in all, sixty 
acres of cultivated land on which the students labor and on which experi- 
mental processes are conducted. 
The college has a well-selected library of about 3,000 volumes, which 
is constantly increasing; also a good assortment of philosophical and 
chemical apparatus, an extensive cabinet of minerals and ores, and a 
good collection of specimens illustrating the geology of Kansas. 
Tuition is free, except in instrumental music. Contingent fee, $3 a 
term. Board, $3 25 per week. 
ICENTUCKY. 
In the annual reports for 1867 and 1869 accounts were given of the 
establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Ken- 
tucky University, at Lexington, in 1866. It has now been in successful 
operation nearly five years, and we notice with interest the increasing 
prosperity of this, the jirst college organized under the act of Congress 
appropriating lands for the endowment of Industrial Colleges. 
The library of the university contains 10,000 volumes. Whole num- 
ber of students during the year, 819; of these, 300 were in the Agricul- 
tural and Mechanical College. 
Students are permitted to receive instruction, without extra charge, 
in any of the classes of the College of Arts, enabling them to study Latin, 
Greek, &c., and to obtain a thorough classical as well as scientific edu- 
cation. 
