REPORTS FROM DIFFERENT STATES. 373 



and eighty bushels shelled corn, five hundred bushels potatoes, 

 forty-eight tons sugar beets, one hundred bushels rye, fifty 

 bushels barley, three hundred bushels of oats, two tons of 

 millet, three hundred tons of apples, and two hundred and eight 

 tons hay p produced by one hundred and seventy-one students, 

 laboring six hours each week on the farm, during intervals of 

 study, under practical instruction. 



The Institute of Technology, at Boston, has three hundred 

 and fifty-six students. 



The Agricultural College of Michigan has a good farm, well 

 cultivated, and devoted to the various grains, fruits, plants, etc. 

 Special attention given to the improved varieties of stock, cat 

 tle, sheep, and hogs. Number of students, one hundred and 

 thirty-one, who perform four fifths of the farm labor. 



Minnesota College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts has a 

 good farm under cultivation. Number of students, three hun 

 dred and fifty-four; of this number, one hundred and seventeen 

 were pursuing agricultural or mechanical studies. 



The College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts, Missis 

 sippi, has one hundred and ten acres of land; forty-two stu 

 dents receive practical instructions from the Professor of Agri 

 culture. 



Missouri Agricultural and Mechanical College has six hundred 

 acres, well cultivated; the best varieties of blooded stock; has 

 raised large quantities of corn, oats, potatoes, hay, grapes, etc. 

 Number of students, three hundred and twenty-two, who are 

 instructed in practical agriculture, and have performed three 

 fourths of the labor on the farm. 



The College of Agriculture, University of Nebraska, has a 

 farm of four hundred and eighty acres. Number of students, 

 one hundred and thirty, with twenty-five in agricultural depart 

 ment. 



Dartmouth College has four hundred and eight students. 

 The Commissioner of Agriculture says: &quot;The number of stu 

 dents in this college has nearly doubled during the present 

 year,&quot; (1873.) Whether this increase is attributable, in any de 

 gree, to the establishment of the College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts with th& College proper, he does not say. 



The Scientific School and School of Agriculture, New Bruns 

 wick, New Jersey, has fifty students. 



Cornell University Agricultural College, New York, has a 



