PROGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. ATT 
ogy; Battista Lorino, professor of Latin, Greek, French, German, Ital- 
jan, and Spanish; Phil. Moore Leakin, professor of mathematics, pure 
and mixed, including experimental surveying, mensuration, ete.; Francis 
A. Soper, instructor in military tactics and tutor in mathematics; Wil- 
liam E. Waggener, tutor in the preparatory department; and J. Esputa, 
professor of instrumental and vocal musie. , 
The number of students during the year ending in June, 1870, was 
98. The present number is 118, 60 of whom are State students, 
who receive their tuition and have the use of text-books free of cost. 
The expense is paid from an annual donation of $6,000, made by the 
State for this purpose. ; 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
In previous reports on the Massachusetts Agricultural College, at Am- 
herst, we have spoken principally of its endowment, buildings, and 
course of instruction. These objects have thus far required a large 
share of the attention of the trustees and faculty of the institution. The 
operations of the farm, the orchard, and the garden, which are of no 
less interest to the farmer, have not been entirely neglected, however. 
A foundation has been laid for carrying out the details of scientific and 
practical agriculture to their full extent. Only within two years has 
any important step been taken by way of improvement and experi- 
ment on the farm. Much time has been expended in laying it out, 
in fencing, under-draining, grading, and constructing the necessary 
roads. During the last season there were raised on the farm 150 tons 
of hay, 700 bushels of corn, 600 bushels of oats, and 600 bushels of po- 
tatoes. Two hundred and fifty standard pear trees, 50 peach trees, and 
25 apple trees have been set. Also, 2,000 grape vines, mostly Concords, 
set six feet apart, in rows nine feet apart, and staked with chestnut 
pickets five feet long. Itis designed to support them with wire trel- 
lises. Several acres are devoted to small fruits and vegetables. Large 
quantities of currants, raspberries, strawberries, asparagus, and rhu- 
barb have been set. It is proposed to institute a series of experiments 
with the sugar-beet, for the purpose of determining what varieties 
are best suited to the soil and climate of Massachusetts, and what per- 
centage of sugar may be expected from them. 
A beginning has been made in stock-breeding. Twelve thorough- 
bred cattle are on the college farm, consisting of Short-horns, Devons, 
Ayrshires, and Jerseys, purchased of the best breeders in the country ; 
also about forty natives, besides twenty-five Southdown sheep, and 
twenty-four swine of the Suffolk, Berkshire, and Chester white breeds. 
The theoretical and practical instruction in agriculture has been un- 
der the direction of Professor Levi Stockbridge, who has devoted him- 
self with much zeal and success to this department. 
The faculty consists of William 8. Clark, president, and professor of 
botany and horticulture; Levi Stockbridge, professor of agriculture ; 
Henry H. Goodell, professor of English, French, and German Tan- 
guages; Samuel I’. Miller, professor of mathematics and farm engin- 
eering; Charles A. Goessmaiun, professor of chemistry; Henry E. Al- 
vord, professor of military science and tactics; H. 5S. Barlow, instructor 
in rhetoric and elocution; James Law, lecturer on diseases of domestic 
animals; Charles L. Flint, lecturer on dairy farming; Calvin Cutter, 
lecturer on hygiene; Joseph White, lecturer on civil polity; Jabez 
Fisher, lecturer on market gardening; Edward Hitchcock, lecturer on 
comparative anatomy; Marshall P. Wilder, lecturer on the culture of 
fruits and flowers, and the art of producing new and valuable varieties ; 
