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and in the manipulation of butter and cheese. The house at present occupied. 
by the overseer, Mr. Quadling, will be assigned to Mr. Briinnich, and the 
ormer will occupy a neat cottage now being built by the students. 
The future work in the building line is planned as follows :—The finishing 
of the piggery; the pigs are now running in a large yard, to which will be 
added the necessary accommodation for brood sows, boars, &c., &c. A cottage 
to be built for the herdsman, of which plans have already been prepared. A. 
Tse barn to be erected before another winter. Plans are contemplated for a 
uilding which will have accommodation for thirty head of cows in the 
asement, besides. stalls for bulls. There will also be a gangway overhead for 
© reception of hay and corn, which, on unloading from the carts, may be 
elevated into the barn and supplied to the animals by gravitation. Then there 
'S a new silo to be built, different from the present one, which is rectangular, 
Whilst the new one will be round. 
Whenever a spare moment can be found, shade and fruit trees are planted 
on the ridge on which the main buildings stand, and a commencement has been 
Made to beautify the immediate neighbourhood of the College and of Professor 
Shelton’s house, by planting rose-trees and putting in cuttings of flowering 
Plants.” An unlimited supply of excellent water has been struck in a well sunk 
at the foot of the ridge, which obviates all necessity for carting water from the 
ockyer at a considerable expenditure of time and trouble. 
M The studies of the students are presided over hy Professor Shelton, 
lessrs, Briinnich (chemistry), H. Schmidt (science and bookkeeping), and 
itt (surveying and engineering); whilst for field operations and horticulture, 
€ssrs, Quadling and Gorrie are the instructors. 
Taken altogether, no students could have a more enjoyable and instructive, 
1f somewhat laborious, life. Ample opportunity is given to them, by means 
of a large area of splendid soil, the latest improved machinery, the best of stock, 
4nd the most able instructors in their several branches, to obtain a first-class 
‘cientific and practical agricultural education, which will not only benefit them- 
Selves in after-life, but also their neighbours in whatever part of the colony they 
May hereafter elect to settle in. 
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