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erection of fine large buildings for shops of various kinds, which have 
been fitted up with the most approved machinery for the manufacture 
of all kinds of agricultural and mechanical implements, including reap- 
ers and mowers, wagons, plows, and cultivators. And in the wood- 
shops, iron-shops, paint-shops, and shoe-shops, skilled artisans are 
employed, who, under the general supervision of an experienced 
superintendent, give practical instruction to a large number of young 
men in the various mechanic arts. With these liberal and unusual 
advantages young men have an opportunity ot learning a good trade 
either at the anvil, the lathe, the bench, or with the brush, while at the 
same time defraying a large portion of the expeuses of their education. 
In the last published catalogue it is shown that several were paid 
upwards of $100 each; in some few cases, from $250 to $300. These 
young men received honorable notice, and were rewarded with the first 
honors. ‘These results prove the advantages of such institutions to in- 
dustrious and deserving young mechanics ambitious to obtain a practical 
education. A good beginning has been made in this department. During 
the year a commodious barn worth $2,100 and a cottage worth $1,000 have 
been built; fourteen houses, dormitories, and club-buildings thoroughly 
repaired; seventy-two rooms painted, white-washed, and prepared for 
occupation; three thousand six hundred and forty-two feet of plank 
fence built ; agricultural implements, barns, and greenhouses repaired ; 
additions made to propagating houses; the small tools for the machine- 
shop and blacksmith.shop made, besides much other important work 
necessary to be done on the farm and buildings. Twenty-two two-horse 
wagons have been manufactured; sixty-four two-horse plows; forty- 
three one-horse plows; sixty cultivators; fifty patent trucks; twenty- 
two mowers painted and repaired ; thirty-five senior combined Climax 
machines ; five harrows, and much other useful machinery ; and one hun- 
dred and thirty-five mowers have been painted and set up. 
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MARYLAND. 
The Maryland Agricultural College, at Hyattsville, has opened this 
year with encouraging prospects. The number of students in attend- 
ance is much larger than at any previous time. Regular lessons are 
given in practical farming, horticulture, floriculture, experimental sci- 
ence, and natural history, to every class in college. A provision has 
been made for carpenter and blacksmith shops for the benefit of such 
students as have a taste for these mechanic arts. 
The college building is spacious and substantial, and in thorough re- 
pair. It has fine and convenient chambers, and is well ventilated and 
warmed. It is also lighted throughout with gas, and combines every 
requisite for acomfortable home. The farm, buildings, roads, and lawns 
are being improved as rapidly as the funds will admit. The college is 
now free from debt, and the income meets all its liabilities. 
The scholastic year is divided into two terms, with one regular vaca- 
tion, which begins the last week in June, and closes the middle of Sep- 
tember. 
The first term opens on the 15th of September, and closes with Jan- 
uary. The second term begins the 1st of February, and ends with the 
college year the last of June. 
The faculty consists of Rev. Samuel Regester, president and professor 
of moral science and evidences of natural and revealed religion ; Nich- 
olas B. Worthington, professor of mental philosophy, English language, 
and literature; Alfred Herbert, professor of the natural sciences, in- 
cluding chemistry and .its applications, geology, botany, and -mineral- 
