484 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
degree of bachelor of science on all members of the graduating class in 
full and regular standing. 
OHIO. 
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Ohio, at Columbus, was 
incorporated by an act of the legislature the 22d of March, 1870. On 
the 18th of April following an additional act was passed authorizing 
the several counties of the State to raise money to secure the location 
of the college. Several of the interior counties made liberal proposals. 
Montgomery County offered $400,000; Champaign, $200,000; Clarke, 
$200,000; and Franklin, $300,000. In September of the same year the 
board of trustees determined that, on account of the central position 
lecal advantages, and the generous donation of Franklin County, the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Ohio should be permanently 
located at Columbus. The board selected from the several farms offered 
in different localities, the “Neil farm,” situated about two miles north 
of the State-house, and containing, with an adjoining lot, 378 acres, 
for which they have agreed to pay $103,000. 
A farm superintendent has been appointed, and is making prepara- 
tions to engage, in the spring, in such operations and farm experiments 
as the board shall direct. This winter the board will complete and 
adopt their plans for the college buildings, and commence erecting them 
as soon as the season will permit. They will also devise a plan for the 
organization of the college, which it is intended to establish on a broad 
and liberal basis, adequate to the wants of the State, and in such a way 
as to carry out faithfully the requirements and spirit both of the con- 
gressional and State enactments. 
The fund derived from the sales of land scrip, and from interest accu- 
mulated, now amounts to $500,000. The annual interest derived from 
this fund is $30,000. As the board are able to pay for the farm, and 
erect the necessary college and farm buildings from the liberal dona- 
tions of the citizens of Franklin County, the $50,000 annual income 
from the fund will be applied to the support of an able corps of profes- 
sors, and to the payment of other expenses connected with the college. 
VERMONT. 
The faculty of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural 
College, at Burlington, consists of James Burrill Angell, president ; 
professors: Samuel White Thayer, Walter Carpenter, Rev. McKendree 
Petty, Joseph Perkins, Matthew Henry Buckman, John Ordronaux, 
Alpheus Benning Crosby, Peter Collier, Henry Williamson Haynes, 
Edward Swift Dunster, Rev. Henry A. P. Torrey, Volney Giles Barbour, 
George Henry Perkins, and Louis Pollens, instructor. 
The departments of the University and college are as follows: 1. The 
academical department; 2. The agricultural and scientific department; 
3. The medical department. The agricultural and scientific department 
embraces a course (A) in civil engineering; (B) in metallurgy and 
mining engineering; (C) in chemistry; and (D) in agriculture. The 
several courses of study pursued in this department are as follows: 
First year, (same for A, B, C, and D.)—First term: Algebra, Loomis’s; geometry, 
Loomis’s ; chemnistry—laboratory practice and recitations, Eliot and Storér’s. Second 
teym : Geometry, Loomis’s ; chemistry—laboratory practice and recitations, Eliot and 
Storer’s; French; geometrical drawings, Warren’s. Third term: Geometry, Loomis’s; 
French ; chemistry—qualitative and laboratory practice, Fresenius’s; drawing, prin- 
ciples ef perspective. 2 
SECOND Year, (same for A and B.)—First term: Trigonometry, plane and spheri- 
cal, Loomis’s; descriptive geometry, Church’s; chain and compass surveying ; physics, 
