1871. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE AG'L COLLEGE. 



A building for the accommodation of the Indus- 

 trial College of New Hampshire, in connection 

 with Dartmouth College, was dedicated at Han- 

 over, Friday, June 23, with appropriate ceremonies, 

 in the presence of the Governor and Council, the 

 Legislature, and other State officials. Addresses 

 were made bj' President Smith of Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, Prof. Dimond, Gov. Weston, ex-Gov. Smith 

 of New Hampshire, the Hon. Moses Hunt, Chair- 

 man of the State Board of Agriculture, the Hon. 

 David Clough, a member of the Council, Senator 

 Patterson, and others. 



"A brighter day" said the Hon. David Clough, 

 "is dawning for the farmers of New Hampshire. 

 We want a more intelligent and enlightened yeo- 

 manry in our State." This was the spirit mani- 

 fested by all who spoke — a spirit of congratulation 

 that New Hampshire is coming to realize the great 

 benefit to farmers of such means of education. 



Senator Patterson fitly said ; "The Agricultural 

 College belongs to the State — to the farmers espe- 

 cially. It is to teach the intimate relations be- 

 tween all professions — between labor and capital. 

 Without capital agriculture can do nothing; with- 

 out labor capital cannot accumulate. A college on 

 a barren soil will make agriculture, otherwise un- 

 profitable, a source of income." 



The building which was thus dedicated is knowTi 

 as "Culver Hall." It is pronounced by a corres- 

 pondent of the New York Trihune, a model of 

 architectural beauty. It stands about forty rods 

 east of Reed Hall, and fronts southward, with a 

 fine view. Nineteen miles distant, Ascutney, the 

 most pointed of the mountains of Vermont, stands 

 up chiselled sharp against the sky. The building 

 has a length of one hundred feet and a breadth of 

 sixty, and is three stories high, with a basement. 

 It is to be lighted with gas and heated by steam. 

 The first story contains the chemical lecture-room 

 and laboratoiy; the second, the State Museum, 

 "devoted to the exhibition of all the natural pro- 

 ducts, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal, of 

 the States of New Hampshire and Vermont;" 

 while in the third, the Museum of Natural History 

 of Dartmouth College has recently been placed. 

 There are also in the second story various rooms 

 for the accommodation of the officers of the Col- 

 lege. 



A correspondent of the Boston Daily Journal 

 makes the following statement as to how the funds 

 for the building were obtained : — 



The late Hon. David Culver of Lyme gave 

 .^lo.OOO to Dartmouth Colicge to establish a De- 

 partment of Agriculture, and his wife gave §10,000 

 for any purpose to which they might wish to applj- 

 it. When the trustees of the* Agricultural College 

 decided to establish it as a department here, the 

 trustees of Dartmouth proposed to the Legislature 

 of New Hampshire to appropriate .9'2o,000 for the 

 erection of a suitable building if the sum of .9'lo,000 

 was appropriated from the State Treasury toward' 

 completing the building, which they did at the 

 June session in 1869. Since that ,time Mr. John 

 Conant of Jaffrey'has given $7000 to pay for the 



farm which Professor Dimond had purchased on 

 his own responsibility, and he has given .^oOOO to 

 erect suitable buildings, on condition tliat the 

 Legislature give a sum sufficient to complete them. 

 As the Legislature is composed largely of farmers, 

 they will certainly not be so blind to their own in- 

 terests and the interest of the State as to refuse to 

 appropriate the small sum that is necessary for 

 this purpose. 



TKOTTING— OKLEANS COUNTY FAIE. 



A few weeks since we made a note of the fact 

 that the managers of the agricultural society of 

 this county in New York, had excluded trotting 

 from its grounds during its ensuing fair. The 

 editor of the Rochester Sural Home made some 

 strictures on this decision of the officers of the so- 

 ciety, and asked. Can not the numagers of our far- 

 mers' fairs devise and put into practice, a system 

 under which the horse can be exhibited and not 

 gambled with ? 



In the next number of the Rural Rome, a writer 

 with the signature of "Secretarj^" after quotmg 

 the editor's remarks, says : — 



I was surprised on reading this, as it is evident 

 that the olyect and intention of the Board of Man- 

 agers are not imderstood. The (Ganges in regard to 

 horses, are only and solely the omission of pre- 

 miums for "trials of speed" — the "mere races," 

 above referred to, on the one hand, and offering 

 much larger premiums to the horses exhiljited, on 

 the other. There is no change in the rules and 

 regulations in regard to the horses exhibited ; 

 nothing to prevent any proper tests of "strength, 

 steadiness, and good training as applied to work," 

 nor of style, action and speed. The track will be 

 in good order, and the judges will have all the 

 liberty they have ever had, or probably those at 

 any other county fair have, for all proper tests of 

 the various useful qualities of the horses exhibited. 

 The Board practically acknowledge that the horse 

 is the noblest and best animal used on the farm; 

 as they offer much larger premiums for those ex- 

 hibited, than are given to any other animals, or 

 articles, that may be shown. The list shows that 

 they offer seven premiums, of #20 each, and ten 

 of §10 each, making with the smaller sums oflered, 

 in all, §'28.5 that will be given to horses, mares, 

 and colts. As the highest premium offered for 

 any other animal or article is .^lO, it must be seen 

 that the merits of horses are fully recognized. 



It is only the "mere races," so generally attended 

 with betting, "gambling and other mischievous 

 practices," that are omitted. Thus I believe we 

 are putting "into practice a system in which the 

 horse can be exhiliited and not gambled with;" as 

 we allow of all but the regular races, whether 

 trotting or running, which always result in betting 

 in some form, and other disreputable practices. 



MANURE FOR TOBACCO. 



The tobacco growers of the Connecticut Valley 

 have for many years depended on the manure 

 made from fattening cattle and sheep for the lead- 

 ing fertilizer of their tobacco plants. But this 

 year the decline of some four dollars on a hun- 

 dred pounds of dressedbeef has decided many of 

 them to look to other sources for the great amount 

 of manure required by the tobacco crop. How 

 those of East Whately, Mass., are securing the 



