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to their ability and fidelity. The highest wages paid the present year 
have been seven and a half cents per hour. 
Persons who desire to pursue any of the branches related to agricul- 
ture, such as chemistry, botany, animal physiology, etc., may be received 
for a shorter period than is required for a full course. Candidates for 
admission into the freshman class must not be less than fifteen years of 
age, and must sustain a thorough examination in arithmetic, geography, 
grammar, reading, spelling, and penmanship. 
Whole number of students in the college for the year, 129; of which 
81 were in the agricultural course, 2 in the special course, 36 in the pre- 
paratory course, and 10 are ladies. 
MINNESOTA. 
The design of the University of Minnesota, at St. Anthony, is to enable 
the student, after he leaves the public high-school, to complete his 
education by such course of additional study as he may designate. 
At present the university is doing in its preparatory school much of the 
work of the high schools, which, owing to their limited number, they 
are not yet able to perform. As soon as these high schools can do 
all of this work it is proposed to dispense with the preparatory 
school, and it is announced by the board of regents that the English 
branch will be discontinued at the close of the academic year 1870~71. 
The several departments of the university, as now organized and in 
operation, are as follows: 1. The preparatory school; 2. The collegiate 
department; 3. The college of science, literature, and the arts; 4. The 
college of agriculture and the mechanic arts. It is designed to organize 
a department of law and a department of medicine as soon as the means 
of the university will permit. 
The faculty of the college of agriculture and the mechanic arts con- 
sists of William W. Folwell, president; Daniel A. Robertson, professor 
of agriculture; Richard W. Johnson, professor of military science; Ar- 
thur Beardsley, professor of civil engineering and industrial mechanics; 
Edward H. Twining, professor of chemistry and instructor in natural 
sciences and in French; Mahlon Bainbridge, superintendent of the farm 
and instructor in practical agriculture. 
The course of instruction in agriculture embraces the following 
branches and plan of study: 
1. Chemistry ; including geology and mineralogy, with practical instructions in the 
nature and origin of soils and their analysis, fertilizers, food, processes of the dairy, 
sugar-factory, &c. 
2. Botany ; with practical instructions in horticulture and pomology, arboriculture, 
improvement of varieties, cereals, textile fabrics, &c. 
3. Zodlogy ; including anatomy, entomology, and ornithology, with practical instrue- 
tions in stock-breeding, veterinary science, insects injurious to vegetation, poultry, 
and pisciculture. 
4, Physics; including meteorology and climatology, with practical instructions on 
the effects of light, heat, and electricity, theory of winds and storms, and acclimation 
of plants and animals. 
5. Mechanics ; including engineering, architecture, with practical instructions in 
construction and tests of farm implements and machinery, roads, ditching, fencing, 
farm buildings, and grounds. 
6. Economics; with practical instructions in the general theory and practice of agri- 
culture, rent, wages, accounts, markets, and transportation. 
7. Jurisprudence ; including the history and literature of agriculture, with tenures of 
jJands, laws of highways, taxation, estrays, contracts, etc. 
This course of study occupies two years. Applicants who have com- 
pleted any scientific course of the collegiate department are admitted 
without further examination. Other applicants must be at Jeast sixteen 
years of age, and pass satisfactory examinations in the English language, 
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