the Agricultural Department for barns, tools, stock, etc., and $20,000 to the Horticultural Department for green house, barns, drainage, trees, tools, etc., besides $5,000 to Chemical Laboratory, and $10,000 for Library and apparatus. The present Legislature has lately appropriated $75,000 to begin the erection of a main building which is to cost $150,000; and $25,000 for a Mechanical Building and machinery, to include a large Drill Hall for the Military Department. Plans have been adopted and the erection of these buildings is to begin at once. The new Mechanical Building is to be ready for use at the opening of the Fall Term, and the walls of the main building are to be erected this year.

The University began in 1868 with seventy-five students. The num ber has rapidly increased, till now its catalogue shows a total number of two hundred and seventy eight in attendance during the year closing June 7, 1871. As fast as required, the several Departments have been organized, till at length all the great industrial classes are represented, including Agriculturists, Mechanics, Engineers, Miners, Architects, Chemists, Merchants and Publishers, and each class may find here the instructions necessary to the best understanding and performance of its work.

In the Autumn of 1870 the University was opened for the instruction of female students, and now it offers all its advantages to all classes of society, without regard to sex, sect or condition.

LOCATION.

The University is situated in the city of Urbana, adjoining the limits of the city of Champaign, in Champaign county, Illinois. It is 128 miles from Chicago, on the Illinois Central Railroad. The new and splendid Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railway passes near the grounds. The county is one of the most beautiful prairie regions in the West. The two contiguous cities, constituting, really, only one community, have together a population of nearly 9,000, well supplied with churches and schools, and affording boarding facilities for a large body of students.

GROUNDS AND FARMS.

The lands occupied by the University embrace about 623 acres, divided as follows:

1. The Campus, about 13 acres, including ornamental grounds and a Military Parade ground.

2. The Horticultural Grounds, about 130 acres, embracing gardens, orchards, nurseries, arboretum and forest plantations.

3. The Experimental Farm, 70 acres, including the experimental plats and fields.

4. The Stock Farm, 410 acres.

The University owns another farm near Urbana, designed to be sold. The experimental apple orchard has over 3,000 trees of nearly 1,400 varieties. The pear orchard has, already planted or growing in nursery, over 400 varieties of pears. The other fruit plantations embrace a large number of varieties of various fruit trees and small fruits.

The forest plantations already include 20 acres of timber trees planted in rows, and designed to illustrate artificial forest culture.

BUILDINGS.

The old University Building, now occupied partly by class rooms, library and laboratory, and partly with private rooms for students, is of brick, 125 feet in length and five stories in hight, with a wing of 40 feet by 80 feet, four stories in hight. The building was donated by Champaign county.

The new University Building, of which the above is a cut, is to be 214 feet in length, with wings extending back 124 feet. It is three stories beside basement and Mansard roof. It is designed wholly for public use, and will contain a large public hall for chapel and general exercises, large drawing rooms and thirty class and lecture rooms, sufficient for the instruction of 1,000 or 1,200 students. In one wing, to be made fire-proof, will be provided a spacious library and reading

and the useful arts.

hall, and large and commodious rooms for museums of Natural History Several large rooms for literary societies will also be provided in the Mansard story. The building is surmounted by companile towers for clock and bells.

The new Mechanical Building and Drill Hall is to be built this summer and to be ready for use in September. It will be of brick, 128 feet in length by 80 feet in width, two stories in hight, with towers three stories in hight, as shown in above perspective view. It will contain a boiler and forge room, a machine shop, furnished with steam engine, lathes, and other machinery; pattern and finishing shop, and shops for carpentery, cabinet work, wood working machinery, paint rooms, printing rooms, draughting rooms, and rooms for models, finishing, etc.

In the second story will be a large drill hall, 120 feet by 60 feet, sufficient for the evolutions of a company of infantry, or a section of a battery of field artillery. On the ground floor of one of the towers will be an armorer's shop, a band room, officer's rooms and a military model room.

The Veterinary Stables and operating rooms are to occupy the building heretofore used as shops. It is provided with a good yard and

sheds, and will be fitted up for practical instruction in the care and treatment of sick animals during the winter clinic.

The University has three barns belonging to the stock and experimental farms and gardens, and three dwelling houses for the superintendents.

We present here the plans and a perspective view of the farm house recently built on the Experimental Farm of the Industrial University. This house is designed to afford a fair model for a farmer's house. It is tasteful in appearance, economical in cost, and compact and convenient in arrangement. We offer it as another contribution to rural architecture.

Downing recognized the truth that a house should be in keeping with the scenery by which it is surrounded. One would build a very different style of house among the rugged hills of New England from that which would be appropriate on the prairies of Illinois. The house here shown is not so marked in style as to demand surroundings of any extreme type. If well set off by clumps of conical evergreens, or of tall and branching elms, it will look well on the prairie. The dimensions of the several rooms are given in the plans.

A cellar under the whole, walled with hard brick and having a cement floor, affords a laundry, a large cistern and an ample cellar, in two compartments, one of which may be given to dairy uses and the other to vegetables

The front door is sheltered by a pleasant verandah, and the front hall or entry affords direct admission to office, parlor and kitchen. The "office," a small room which the intelligent farmer will find abundantly useful for his business affairs, will also serve as a library and