478 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
A. 8. Packard, jr., lecturer on useful and injurious insects; E. 8. Snell, 
lecturer on physics; George B. Loring, lecturer on stock-farming; L. 
Clark Seelye, lecturer on English literature; John Griffin, gardener ; 
A. J. Marks, acting farm superintendent. 
MICHIGAN. 
The trustees of the State Agricultural College, at Lansing, have 
completed during the present year a new and commodious dormitory 
for the accommodation of students, and a farm house for the superin- 
tendent of the farm. The lands granted by the national government 
have been put into the market, and are being rapidly sold under the 
direction of the agricultural land-grant board, consisting of the gov- 
ernor, auditor general, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney gen- 
eral, and commissioner of the State land office. It is believed that the 
income derived from the sale of these lands will soon make the college 
a self-sustaining institution. The corps of instruction has been enlarged 
by the addition of a professor in botany and an instructor in the French 
language. 
The faculty as now constituted consists of T. C. Abbot, president and 
professor of mental philosophy and logic; Manly Miles, professor of 
practical agriculture, and superintendent of the farm; R. C. Kedzie, 
professor of chemistry; Santord Howard,* secretary; George T. Fair- 
child, professor of English literature; Albert J. Cook, professor of zo6l- 
ogy and entomology; Will. W. Tracy, instructor in horticulture and 
superintendent of the gardens; Richard Haigh, jr., assistant secretary; 
William J. Beal, lecturer on botany; J. J. Golard Fernand, instructor 
in French; 8. 8. Rockwell, steward; Charles E. Stowe, foreman of the 
farm; Edwin Hume, assistant foreman of the farm. 
The departments of instruction were given in the report for 1868. 
The course of study, with the text-books used, is as follows: 
FRESHMAN CLAsSs.—First half year—Algebra, Davies; history, Weber; geometry, 
Robinson; book-keeping, Mayhew. Second half year—Trigonometry, Robinson; sur- 
veying, Davies; practical agriculture, lectures; geology, Dana. 
SOPHOMORE CLAss.—Virst half year—English literature, Chambers, Spauiding; bot- 
any, Gray; elementary chemistry, Roscoe. Second half year—Entomology, Packard ; 
analytical chemistry, Kedzie ; botany, Gray, Darlington, Lindley; horticulture, Thomas, 
Fuller, Henderson. 
JuNIoR cLass.—First half year—Physics, Snell’s Olmsted; agricultural chemistry, 
lectures; inductive logic, Herschel. Second half year—Physics, Miller; meteorology, 
lectures; rhetoric, Whately, Day’s Praxis; animal physiology, Dalton. 
SENIoR cCLass.—VFirst half year—Zodlogy, Carpenter; practical agriculture, lectures ; 
mental philosophy, Wayland; astronomy, Suell’s Olmsted; French, Otto. Second half 
year—Landscape gardening, Downing, Kemp; civil engineering, Mahan; moral phi- 
josophy, Fairchild; political economy, Carey, Walker; French, Otto, De Fivas. 
Among other means of improvement besides the! foregoing may be 
mentioned the college farm of 676 acres, 300 of which are under cultiva- 
tion; the botanical gardens of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, and 
a commodious greenhouse; the vegetable gardens, small fruit garden, 
apple orchard, pear orchard, general lawn, and grounds; the Galloway, 
Ayrshire, Devon, and Short-horn cattle; Essex, Berkshire, Suffolk, and 
Chester White swine; Southdown, Cotswold, Spanish Merino, and Black- 
faced Highland sheep; chemical laboratory and apparatus; philosophi- 
cal and mathematical apparatus; museum of animals and minerals; the 
Cooley herbarium; museum of vegetable products; library and reading- 
room; buildings, workshops, and tools. : 
Students are paid for the labor they perform on the farm according 
* Deceased since the record was prepared. 
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