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own legislature to $40,000 and until we get a little more done 

 at home, I fear I shall have to be busy here. . . . 



[1860] Why were you not at the Association? I wanted 

 to gossip with you about a plan for making a series of experi- 

 ments on ag. practice with manures and a project for getting 

 10 or 15000 dollars from Congress to do it with, etc. etc. . . . 



We here, with imperfect organization, over head and ears 

 in debt, with buildings half finished and only 100 students, 

 have consumed annually about $400 worth of apparatus and 

 reagents no purely literary man could see the use of all 

 that expenditure, and hence it could not be made through 

 him. I found Dr. Voelcker at Cirencester, calling on a parson 

 president to approve of a change in the structure of a sand 

 bath!! and Dr. Schultz in Berlin working an agl. class in 

 a garret because the great University had too many uses for 

 its money to give him more room ! ! ! Hohenheim, and Pop- 

 pelsdorf and Tharandt owe most of their efficiency to their 

 standing alone. . . . 



[1862] The Washington folks are still talking about the 

 Agl. Dept. and writing to me about it. I laid out a plan for 

 them that will take $100,000 to start upon. I don't expect 

 they will get more done than talk this winter. The bill as 

 reported, is a humbug, but it may be made something of yet. 

 I shall say more about this again. The agl. dept. is doing noth- 

 ing and I fear it will fizzle out if something is not done. . . . 

 It is a scientific and not a practical man that is wanted there. 



[1864] We have had a long hard fight on the Land Grant 

 Fund we have outflanked the enemy and spiked all his guns, 

 but the infernal guerrillas still hover around in the shape of 

 anonymous correspondents, etc. I still have some fears, 

 though they are very much allayed. 



Professor F. H. Storer occupied in Massachusetts a 

 position analogous in many ways to that held in Con- 

 necticut by Professor Johnson. On the founding, in 



