480 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, plain trigonometry, mensuration, indus- 
trial drawing, geography, and elements of botany, zodlogy, chemistry, 
physics, and general history. Students who satisfactorily complete the 
course of study in this department will receive the degree of bachelor 
of agriculture, but any person not a candidate for this degree, who 
appears to be competent to receive the instruction given, may attend 
the classes and undergo examination in any subject, and if suecessful, 
will receive a certificate to that effect. A special course of instruction 
in this department will be opened about the Ist of November, and con- 
tinue during the winter months, if there should be a sufficient number 
of applications to warrant the undertaking. 
The scholastic year commences near the Ist of September, and closes 
about the end of June. It is divided into three terms, with three vaca- 
tions. ‘Tuition in all the departments is free. Board in families may 
be obtained for $4 per week. In the boarding club it has not exceeded 
$2 per week. 
MISSOURI. 
The act of the legislature for locating the Agricultural and Mechanical 
College, in connection, with the University of the State of Missouri, at 
Columbia, Daniel Read, LL. D., president, was approved February 24, 
1870, and the conditions required of the citizens of Boone County, to 
donate $30,000 and an experimental farm of not less than 640 acres, 
were complied with on the 3d of June following. Measures were imme- 
diately taken to put this coilege into operation, and one professor of 
agriculture, G. C. Swallow, the State geologist, has been appointed, and 
a class formed which is now receiving instruction from Prof. Swallow and 
the professors of the university in the different branches which form the 
course ofstudyinthisdepartment. Sufficientincome willnotfor some time 
be derived from the land granted by Congress for the support of a full 
corps of professors, but the agricultural course will be continued in 
connection with the university, and be enlarged by adding new studies 
and increasing the number of professors as the pecuniary means permit, 
till a college complete in itself, with an independent faculty, is estab- 
lished. Arrangements will be made immediately for the employment of 
students in cultivating the university garden and making improve- 
ments and experiments on the farm, by which they may be able to pay 
a portion of the expense incurred in pursuing their college course. 
The farm is beautifully located on the north side of the Missouri 
tiver, and contains a valuable mansion worth $15,000 or $20,000, which 
is of special value for the accommodation of students, and two large 
vineyards in a flourishing condition. By the terms of the law, this land 
can never be converted to any other use than that of the college farm 
for instruction in practical and scientific agriculture. 
In conducting experiments on the farina, the land is to be divided into 
fields, each tobe designated by aparticularname. The quantity of ground 
devoted to each experiment and the character of the soil are to be accu- 
rately defined. If cultivated, the mode of treatment of the crop, the 
cost, and the profit and loss are to be definitely stated, and credited or 
charged to the farm, as the case may be. Students working on the 
farm or in the garden will beallowed ten to fifteen cents per hour, accord- 
ing to their skill and the amount of work performed. 
Three-fourths of the income derived from the lands given by the con- 
gressional grant are to be appropriated for the support of the Agricul- 
tural and Mechanical College, and one-fourth for the support of the 
School of Mines and Metallurgy. Propesals were made by different 
