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beets for the manufacture of sugar, and also proved that the 

 seed can be matured here, while Professor Stockbridge has 

 been making experiments with fertilizers and crops both inter- 

 esting and instructive, but which have not been sufficiently. 

 matured as yet to be given to the public. The care of the 

 garden and the class-work of the student have been intrusted 

 to the charge of Professor Stockbrido;e, while the manai^ement 

 of the farm is committed to John C. Dillon, Esq. Mr. Dillon 

 has the charge of the stock, stock-breeding, dairy, swine, 

 poultry, men, teams, crops, etc., etc., and these in the 

 main are as well cared for and prudently managed as a 

 considerate man ought to expect, when it is taken into 

 consideration that the whole establishment is yet only in its 

 infancy ; that many improvements have been planned and 

 but few perfected ; that his teams and his men are liable to 

 interruptions from the conservatory, the garden, the vineyard, 

 and calls from all sources in such an extensive establishment, 

 before chaos has been reduced to order. 



The farm is not claimed now as a model nor as a money- 

 making concern, but only as in the experimental stage, 

 endeavoring to prove that farming may be made to pay if 

 conducted on scientific principles , and to show the farmers of 

 Massachusetts, if they will avail themselves of the facts here 

 demonstrated and the improvements here proved, how they 

 can turn this information to their own benefit, and out of the 

 teachings and experiments of the college coin money for their 

 own pockets. 



During the year. Professor H. J. Clark, the Professor of 

 Veterinary Science, one of the best microscopists of the age, 

 an enthusiast in his department, has gone where the beauties 

 of nature are not seen "through a glass, darkly," while the 

 trustees have been fortunate enough to secure the services 

 of Professer Noah Cressy, who is a live, energetic, practical 

 and practising veterinarian, to fill his vacant chair, — one of 

 the more essential departments of an agricultural college. 



Within a short time, by the news of the day, we have 

 learned that the colleore boatino^-clubs have removed their 

 headquarters from the waters of the Connecticut to the 

 waters of Saratoga. The bland and enticing invitation of 

 John Morrissey, "Will you walk into my parlor?" etc., 



