482 AGRICULTURAL REPORT, 
set apart fora model farm, upon which improvements will be commenced 
as soon as the agricultural college is opened. . 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
The trustees of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Me- 
chanic Arts, at Hanover, are making progress in establishing this 
institution on a firm basis. The general government of the institution 
is vested in nine trustees, five of whom are appointed by the governor 
of the State, and four by the trustees of Dartmouth College. Its connec- 
tion, therefore, with Dartmouth College is such as to secure to it all the 
advantages which can result from the wisdom and experience of that 
institution, and at the same time enable it to retain all the rights and 
privileges which pertain to it as a separate organization in accomplish- 
ing the particular objects for which it was established. 
The new college building is now nearly completed, and will soon be 
opened for the reception of students. It is called Culver Hall, in honor 
of the late David Culver, who was the principal contributor to its 
erection. It isa large and elegant building, 100 feet long by 60 wide, 
and four stories high. The basement is made of granite, and the super- 
structure of bricks of the best quality. The rooms of the first story 
are designed as depositories for improved agricultural implements and 
models of machinery employed in the mechanic arts. The second con- 
tains a lecture-room sufficiently large to accommodate 500 persons, a 
chemical laboratory for the use of students, and aroom for alibrary. In 
the third story are recitation-rooms, a room for lectures on natural his- 
tory, and one for a museum of the agricultural products of the State. 
The fourth is designed for the museum of natural history. The building 
is complete in all its arrangements, and surpasses all other buildings 
which have been erected in connection with Dartmouth College. For 
the erection of this building $25,000 were derived from the estate of 
Mr. Culver, $15,000 were appropriated by the State legislature, and 
$12,000 have been received from private donations. 
The college farm contains 158 acres of excellent land, and embraces 
a great variety of soils. It joins the college grounds on which Culver 
Hall is situated. Seventy-two acres of the farm are tillage land, 
twelve acres wood land, and the remainder pasturage. Nearly all the 
land could be easily converted inte tillage if desired. The farm was pur- 
chased by Hon. John Conant, and presented to the college, and in 
his honor it has been named the Conant farm. Mr. Conant has aceu- 
mulated a property of $100,000 by farming, and has done honor to 
himself and the fraternity of farmers by his liberality, not only to this 
institution but to many others of his State. 
The faculty is the same as given in the report of 1868, with the addi- 
tion of David French Thompson, instructor in drawing. The curricu- 
lum of study in the college of agriculture and the mechanic arts 1s as 
follows: ‘ 
JUNIOR YEAR, (both courses alike.)\—First Term: Mathematics—Loomis’s algebra; 
botany—structure and physiology of plants, Gray; physics—physical geography ; 
drawing—free-hand, Chapman; book-keeping—Crittenden’s, counting-house edition. 
SECOND TERM: Mathematics—algebra completed, Loomis’s geometry; botany—char- 
acteristics of plants and their classification; drawing—free-hand, Chapman; chem- 
istry—chemical physics, metallic and non-metallic elements and their compounds, and 
lectures. 
MIDDLE YEAR, (course in agriculture.)\—First TERM: Mathematics—Loomis’s tri 0- 
nometry, surveying and leveling, with the use of the instruments and practice in the 
field, drawing of plans and mays, lectures on civil engineering; practical botany— 
useful and noxious plants, propagation of plants, fruits, &c.; organic chemistry— 
gums, sugar, alcohol, essential oils, organic acids and bases, fermentation, putrefaction, 
