8 THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



for the purpose of establishing a Professorship of Agriculture, and the trustees have elected 

 to the chair Dr. Daniel Lee, former editor of the Genesee Farmer and Southern Cultivator. 



In Massachusetts, arrangements have been made, in connection with Amherst College, for 

 the instruction, in agriculture and its kindred sciences, of young men, not permanently 

 members of the college, but who may resort to it, for longer of shorter periods, at pleasure, 

 for this specific purpose. This department is under the special direction of the well-known 

 agriculturist, Prof. J. N. Nash, editor of the Valley Farmer, and the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, 

 formerly President of the College. The plan of instruction embraces a full course of lec- 

 tures on the natural and physical sciences, and lectures and recitations on practical agricul- 

 ture and the application of science to rural affairs. 



The legislature of Michigan, at its last session, passed an act establishing an agricultural 

 college in that State. This act provides that the site for an agricultural college shall be 

 purchased within ten miles of the capital of the State, of not less than five hundred acres, 

 nor to exceed one thousand ; that twenty-two sections of Salt Spring lands shall be appro- 

 priated for the purchase of the land, erection of buildings, and all other necessary expenses 

 to be incurred in the establishment and successful operation of said college ; that the purpose 

 of the school shall be to improve and teach the science and practice of agriculture ; and that 

 the course of instruction in said college shall include the following branches of education 

 viz., natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, 

 geology, mineralogy, meteorology, entomology, veterinary art, mensuration, levelling, political 

 economy, book-keeping, and the mechanic arts connected with agriculture. The tuition is 

 to be forever free to pupils within the State. 



During the summer scholastic term, or from the beginning of April to the end of October, 

 the pupils are to be required to devote not less than three nor more than four hours to 

 manual labor, no student to be exempt except in the case of sickness or other infirmity. 



The legislature of Massachusetts, at the last session, passed an act incorporating the 

 "Boston Veterinary Institute," which has since been organized in the city of Boston. The 

 object of the institute is to afford ample instruction to persons desirous of qualifying them- 

 selves for the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery. The plan of instruction includes 

 lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the horse, 011 the theory and practice of veterinary 

 medicine and surgery, and on cattle pathology. Students will also be allowed to attend the 

 lectures on chemistry and pathological anatomy in the medical department of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and clinical lectures will be given by the faculty. The officers of the institute con- 

 sist of the following gentlemen: D. D. Slade, M.D., President; George H. Dodd, Prof, of 

 Anatomy and Physiology ; Charles M. Wood, Prof, of Theory and Practice ; Robert Wood, 

 Prof, of Cattle Pathology. D. D. Slade, M.D., John W. Warren, M.D., George Bartlett, 

 M.D., and Charles Gordon, M.D., Board of Examiners. 



In 1852, a charter for an agricultural college was granted by the legislature of New York, 

 chiefly by the agency of the late Hon. John Delafield, of Fayette, Seneca county, New York. 

 It had been contemplated to build the college on Mr. Delafield's farm, and progress had been 

 made to that effect by the procurement of some thousands of dollars, when the project was 

 interrupted by Mr. D.'s sudden demise. Recently, the trustees of the institution have con- 

 sented to its removal to the town of Ovid whenever the sum of $40,000, required by their 

 by-laws, shall have been secured to put it on an enduring basis. This site is central, beau- 

 tiful, and healthy one of the best, it is believed, that the State affords, and the people here 

 have a mind to the work. 



On the 1st of August, 1855, a meeting of persons interested was held in the town of Ovid, 

 to confer together on the subject, and to assist in devising plans for the promotion of the 

 institution. Addresses were delivered by various individuals, and resolutions were adopted 

 in favor of raising the sum of $200,000 for the purpose of carrying out the work ; of this 

 amount the town of Ovid was pledged for $10,000, and Seneca county for $30,000. 



For the purpose of establishing an agricultural department of the academy at Westfield, 

 Massachusetts, Stephen Harrison, of that place, bequeathed, during the past year, $5000. 



In 1844, an agricultural department was established in connection with the college at 

 Oberlin, Ohio, and a successful course of lectures given in connection with other instruction. 



