STATE REPORTS OF AGRICULTURE. A87 
dents of all the departments are permitted to use free of expense. They 
also have permission to consult, without charge, the historical and 
State libraries, the former of which contains 35,000 volumes, and the 
latter a choice collection of miscellaneous works and a complete law 
library. There are also extensive and valuable geological and minera- 
logical cabinets and collections in natural history, besides well-seleeted 
philosophical and chemical apparatus. 
One student from each assembly district is admitted into the Univer- 
sity free of charge. ‘To all others the tuition is $6 per term, with $2 for 
room rent. Board in clubs or private families will not exceed $3 per 
week. The number of students in the college of arts for the year end- 
ing June, 1870, is 94. . 
STATE REPORTS OF AGRICULTURE. 
The annual reports of the agricultural organizations of Missouri, 
California, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New York, Llinois, 
Ohio, Iowa, and Connecticut, for 1869, have been received, embracing 
all that have been published, as far as is known to the Department. A 
concise abstract of the most important features of each is given. The 
discussions at the meetings of the boards contain many valuable sugges- 
tions, though remarks are sometimes made that will not bear indorse- 
ment. The essays and lectures appear to have been weil considered, 
and comprise the results of many actual experiments. 
CONNECTICUT. 
The fourth annual report of the State board of agriculture of Con- 
necticut has been prepared and its original papers arranged by the secre- 
tary, T. 8S. Gold. It embodies the discussions at the meetings of the 
board, and several original articles, of which the leading subjects are 
swine, poultry, sheep and sheep husbandry, horses and their common 
ailments, and a second report on commercial fertilizers, with an analysis 
of their contents and their actual money value to farmers. ‘These papers 
are generally replies to queries propounded in a circular addressed to 
leading farmers throughout the State, and contain much information on 
the present condition of its agriculture. There are two lectures by 
Professor A. E. Verrill, on the external and internal parasites of do- 
mestic animals, liberally illustrated, forming a convenient treatise on the 
subject; also one by Dr. N. Cressey, on the natural history and patho- 
logical osteology of the horse; and another by Professor James Law, 
on the common ailments of the horse, and their prevention. 
Mr. Richard Goodman, of Lenox, Massachusetts, in a communication to 
the board, suggests that as a rule the farmers of New England eat too 
much pork as their daily food; men work off its effects, but the women, 
confined by in-door employment, exhibit its evil results in poor com- 
plexions, diseased bodies, and general want of stamina. To raise 
healthy boys and beautiful girls a greater variety of food is needed. 
He recommends placing promising steers on good pasture and early 
cut hay, so that every year one could be put into the beef-barrel, and 
after the first two years one could be killed at that age every fall; so 
that, with poultry and mutton occasionally, a good variety of food may 
be always available, and at a cost not higher than that of pork at the 
usual expense of raising corn in New England. The Chester White pigs 
are considered the best breed in the country; .they are small-boned, easily 
