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day of December, 1860, but it did not survive the general de- 

 pression produced by the war, and at present its doors are 

 closed. 



The People's College, which was also designed to be, in 

 part, agricultural in character, was incorporated in 1853 

 by an act of Legislature, and subsequently located upon 

 a tract of 200 acres of land in Schuyler county, New 

 York. The buildings of this college have been partially 

 completed, but it is not yet in successful operation. 



MICHIGAN. 



The State of Michigan has a clause in her constitution 

 (adopted 1850) providing for an Agricultural College, in 

 accordance with which, in 1855, the Legislature appro- 

 priated $50,000, with which a tract of 700 acres of land 

 was purchased, near Lansing, and buildings erected upon 

 it for an Agricultural College. In 1857 an additional 

 $40,000 was appropriated to the College, and in the follow- 

 ing May, students were admitted. To Michigan belongs 

 the honor of thus having put the first State Agricultural 

 College in the United States in operation, but for some 

 cause this College has been obliged to suspend operation. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



The Massachusetts Legislature, as early as 1850, appoint- 

 ed committees to investigate the subject of Agricultural 

 education, and in 1856 incorporated a " school of agricul- 

 ture," and the question is still under consideration by pro- 

 minent citizens of the state, but as yet, the school has 

 riot been founded. 



MARYLAND. 



The Maryland Agricultural College was incorporated in 

 the winter of 1856, and soon after located upon the home- 

 stead of the Hon. Charles B. Calvert, upon a farm of 400 

 acres, ten miles north of Washington City; the act pro- 

 vided for an annual appropriation of $6,000, for the sup- 

 port of the college, provided the sum of $50,000 was first 

 received by subscription; this amount being received, the 

 college was partially completed and' opened for students in 

 1860, and has been in successful operation since that time. It 

 differs from the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, in its 



