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men are going to give us. "We "want apparatus, I repeat, and 

 apparatus rooms. 



So much for educational matters. These are immediate 

 wants, and they are the more important because we are now 

 in our second year, and before our next annual meeting here 

 we are to have our third year ; and the second and third years 

 of any college are the years for scientific study. These are the 

 years when we want to teach chemistry, surveying, natural 

 philosophy. We require these things next year — that is, we 

 must do something this winter. But we absolutely need this 

 apparatus next summer and winter. In order that these young 

 men who have come forward and given the college such a start 

 may be carried creditably and safely through their course of 

 study, we must have this apparatus, and have it before another 

 year. 



Finally, the agricultural and horticultural wants of the col- 

 lege are these, which I know you wish to supply : We must 

 have model farm buildings, and the chairman of your committee 

 is here prepared to report his plans for a new barn. The next 

 thing is a supply of soft running water, and enough of it. All 

 these old barns along here had lead pipes bx^ought down from 

 the hill, that furnished an ample supply of running water. 

 Certainly this college, with all these buildings, ought to have 

 as much. We have a plan for a reservoir which will hold thir- 

 teen millions of gallons, in yonder hillside, which can be built 

 for a few thousand dollars, and the water brought down, through 

 a four-inch pipe, to the new barn, and straight along in front of 

 these buildings ; and then you can have water for your botanic 

 garden, — which is indispensable, — water for your stock, water 

 for all ornamental and useful purposes, and for security in case 

 "of fire. Certainly, with all these needs, we ought not to be 

 out of water, when there is plenty of it running to waste on 

 the hillside. 



Then we want some stock — model animals. These young 

 men have been studying dairy farming. Your Secretary has 

 lectured upon the Dairy and Dairy Farming, and has told them 

 of the Jerseys, and Ayrshires, and Shorthorns, and Devons, 

 and the little Brittanies, and so on ; and they want to see what 

 they look like, and they ought to see. This college must have 

 some model animals. You all know it. We have plenty of 



