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often reduced by receipts for labor per- 

 formed on the farm or elsewhere about the 

 college. There are thirty or more profes- 

 sors and assistants in the faculty, and in 

 addition to the chairs provided by the 

 Massachusetts College there are professors 

 of mechanical engineering, domestic econ- 

 omy and household science. 



The Mississippi Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College is conducted on the same 

 general plan, except that women and 

 negroes are not received as students. Out 

 of a total of 368 students entered last 

 year 316 elected to take the agricultural 

 course. By farm labor the students may 

 reduce their expenses there to $100 a year. 



Over 800 students took the farming 

 course last year in the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College, in Manhattan. The col- 

 lege farm comprises over 300 acres, and is 

 well equipped with live stock. The State 

 has supplemented the United States grants 

 "by the erection of a number of substantial 

 buildings, which are valued at $350,000. 

 Students of both sexes are admitted at 14 

 years of age, after passing an examination 

 in reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, 

 geography, English grammar and United 

 States history. Connected with the course 

 of study here is industrial training in 

 several of the arts, to which each student 

 is required to devote at least one hour a 

 day throughout almost the entire course. 

 Young men may have farming, gardening 

 fruit growing, woodwork, ironwork or 

 printing. Young women may take cooking, 

 sewing, printing, Horticulture or music. 

 Tuition is free, and the annual expenses 

 of the student range from $100 to $200. 

 Students are paid at the rate of 10 cents 

 an hour for work. 



The Iowa State College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts is a flourishing and 

 well attended institution. It has fifteen 

 buildings, erected by the State at a cost of . 

 $500.000, and these include a hall for 

 women. There are besides dwelling houses 

 for professors and other employes, a cream- 

 ery, barns, stables, seed houses and forcing 

 houses. The college lands, of which 120 



acres have been parked as college grounds, 

 are 200 acres in extent. "The farm." Mr. 

 True says, ''consists of rolling prairie, 

 bottom and woodland, and is stocked with 

 good representatives of five breeds of 

 horses, six breeds of cattle, seven breeds 

 of sheep and six breeds of hogs. These 

 animals are used in class illustrations and 

 for the various experiments in breeding 

 and feeding for milk, meat, wool, growth 

 and maintenance, conducted by the exper- 

 iment station as a department of the col- 

 lege. All the crops of the farm are grown 

 for some educational purpose; all the ani- 

 mals are fed by rule and system, and the 

 results of their management reported upon 

 and used in class work. Labor is not com- 

 pulsory, but students in the agricultural 

 courses are given work that is parallel with 

 their studies. Some students pay for 

 their board by work in the mornings and 

 evenings. There is a practical working 

 creamery and cheese factory in operation 

 throughout the year. During the summer 

 season from 15,000 to 25,000 pounds of 

 milk are taken in daily and manufactured 

 into butter and cheese. The number of 

 students in 1897 was 573, including 

 women.*' 



In New York State the Agricultural 

 College is an annex of Cornell University, 

 and in 1897 there were 127 students tak- 

 ing the farming course. The tuition in 

 agriculture at Cornell is free, and the 

 yearly expense of the student ranges from 

 $300 to $500. The "four years' course in 

 agriculture is designed to afford an educa- 

 tion as broad and liberal as that given by 

 other departments of the university, and 

 leads to the degree of BacKelor of Science 

 in Agriculture. The college farm occupies 

 125 acres of land, and it is well stocked 

 with dairy cows, sheep, horses, hogs and 

 poultry. The dairy building is equipped 

 with modern appliances and machinery for 

 making butter and cheese. Ten acres are 

 devoted to the gardens, orchards and nur- 

 series of the horticultural department, 

 which also has eight forcing houses. Can- 

 didates for admission to the Cornell agri- 



