Institute; Agricultural Society of Lombardy, Italy; Smithsonian Institute, and Harvard College.

Through the liberality of the publishers, the reading-room has been regularly suppl ed with the "Lansing State Republican," "Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture," "The Horticulturist," "New England Farmer," "Prairie Farmer," "Wisconsin Farmer," "Weekly Railroad Record," "Sturgis Journal," "Michigan Argus," "Detroit Commercial Advertiser," "Wolverine Citizen,” « Ann Arbor Journal," "Romeo Argus," and the "Bay City Semi-Weekly Press and Times."

For the Museum we have received the following: From William Duane Wilson, picture of Iowa Agricultural College; from Senator Buel, crystals of lead-very fine; from George R. Congdon, box of specimens of Grand Rapids limestonevery fine; from Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C., specimens of American fresh-water shells, and specimens of stones used in the construction of public buildings in Washington.

Donations of animals, implements, &c., have been received as follows:

Seth A. Bushnell, Trumbull county, Ohio, Chester-white

Hon. John Wentworth, Chicago, Ill., Suffolk boar;

Henry Birge, Drayton Plains, Mich., South Down ram; A. S. Brooks, Novi, Mich., Merino ram and ewe; Hon. Charles Rich, Lapeer, Mich., Merino ram and ewe; E. J & P. White, Lapeer, Mich., high-grade Merino ewe; Hon. Wm. Chamberlain, Red Hook, N. Y., Silesian ram; Wm. A. Dryer, Lansing, Mich., four high-grade Merino ewes; Edwin Hammond, Middlebury, Vermont, samples of wool from his celebrated Merino sheep;

T. A. Flower, Pontiac, Mich., Farmers' root-cutter;

Ames Plough Company, Boston, Mass., Sanborn's turn-wirst plough;

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S. E. Harrington, Greenfield, Mass., Harrington's "convertible seed-dropper and hand-cultivator," not yet tried here; Wheeler, Melick & Co., Albany, N. Y., Palmer's horse pitchfork;

Wm. Chamberlain, Oberlin, Ohio, right to use Hayne's portable fence;

E. T. Hickman, Newcastle, Mich., right to use Tufts' patent fence;

Reuben Hurd, Springfield, Ill., an article called " the American hog-tamer;"

C. H. Dana, West Lebanon, N. H., ear-labels for sheep;

A. Todd, Jr., Ontario, Wayne county, N. Y., stamps for marking sheep, and hoof-shears for sheep;

F. Van Doren, Adrian, Mich., hand corn-planter;

Robert Hale, Chicago, Ill., right to use Hale's patent sheeprack;

A. S. Brooks, Novi, Mich., superior black oats;

S. S. Bailey, Grand Rapids Mich., early Boughton wheat; J. H. Hawley & Co., Pontiac, Mich., Hurxthal & Lee's selfopening gate;

D. Goodsell, Cleveland, Ohio, Jones' seed-dropper.

SANFORD HOWARD,

Secretary of the Michigan Board of Agriculture.

REPORT

OF THE

FACULTY OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE..

[EXTRACTS.]

Accompanying this report, we present to the Board the various reports on the management of the farm, and of the several gardens, and of the stock, which have come before the Faculty for their action the present year. We also present the reports on experiments, and the meteorological record kept by Dr. Kedzie, according to the forms recommended by the Smithsonian Institute, similar to those published in connection with the report of the Board.

LABOR REQUIRED OF THE FACULTY.

The Board requested, some time last year, a report from the Faculty on the workings of the new system inaugurated last season for the uniting of labor and class-room instruction. One of the most obvious results has been to add very largely to the labor of the officers of the College. When two classes were nearly enough alike in qualifications, they have sometimes been united in branches of study not essential to the scientific character of the Institution.

The plan for the management of the work done by students: may be found in the report of the Board for 1863, pages 45 and following; the departments of instruction may be found on the 81st page; while the general plan on which the Institution is conducted, is given in the same report, pages 8 to 18.

This plan threw no such studies out of the course, but lessened the time devoted to them by the professors of the College.

In a literary institution, an approximation to the amount of labor required of the instructors may be gained by comparing their number with the course of study; for the duties of the professors are, to a large degree, confined to the class-room. But an estimate made in this way would obviously be unjust in regard to any school of practical industry. It has been necessary to assign out-of-door superintendence and instruction to nearly every one of the College officers. One or two instances will show how much as been required of the members of the Faculty, if it be remembered that the entire amount of labor was divided amongst them as equally as possible.

The Professor of Animal Physiology is also Superintendent of the Farm. He has had charge of the stock, and of the sales and exchanges of it; plans to mature in regard to the management of the farm, the three hours daily labor of students to superintend personally, and instruction to give in the field in manual operations, and in the use of tools. He has given a course of lectures on farming operations. In addition to this, he has had his usual class recitations in studies, requiring not only class-room exercise, but investigations with his class in field and forest. The labor of instruction is much increased from the lack of proper text-books. It is so, also, in nearly all the departments. The application of the sciences to agriculture have not been taught to classes in years past throughout our land, or elsewhere, and suitable books are not yet written. Consequently, the labor of imparting instruction is largely increased.

The Professor of Agricultural Chemistry has had to give instruction principally by lectures. He has had agricultural experiments to superintend, meteorological records to keep; he has had a class in Elementary Chemistry, one in Agricultural Chemistry, and one in Analytical Chemistry, to teach; he has had, for one-half year, to superintend personally the practice of his class three hours a day in chemical analysis; he has given a course of lectures on the application of Chemistry to the Arts, and another course on Military Hygiene, and still it

was found necessary to assign to his care a class in another study, wholly removed from the range of his own professorship.

The Professor of Botany has charge of the several gardens belonging to the College, the College grounds, the three hours: of daily work of students in the garden to superintend personally, daily in-door lessons to hear, the weekly military drill to conduct, and lectures to give. And yet, as before stated, the labor has been equalized as far as possible between all the officers.

It is evident from these statements that, for the highest efficiency of the Institution, a further division of labor should be made as soon as the condition of the College will warrant it. The Superintendent of the Farm must not give half his time to instruction in the classification of animals, in geology, and other branches not belonging to his own professorship. The department of chemistry must be divided into several distinct fields of labor. A civil engineer, a geologist, an entomologist, a professor of meteorology, and one of veterinary science, must take their places in the Faculty of Instruction.

The Faculty do not, however, recommend the enlargement of the corps of instruction for a year or two to come. For, the farm and the gardens fitted for experiment and illustration, the stock and buildings necessary for carrying out the objects. of the Institution are all so indispensable to the instruction which the Faculty should give, that we think it best to expend upon these objects a large portion of what the State may appropriate to the Institution. The grounds should be made a model of taste; the fields should be fitted for experiments;. additional buildings for the protection of stock are greatly needed; additions of choice stock are essential; a propagating house for plants, and other means of illustration and experiment, are necessary for the accomplishment of the legitimate: aims of an Agricultural College.