Bulletin No. 9, 320 pages, 50,000 copies; also a Handbook for the Homeseeker, 200 pages, 100 illustrations, 50,000 copies. This book was prepared by direction of the legislature. Both books are distributed gratuitously. From the experiment station there have been issued the Twelfth Annual Report, 350 pages, 15,000 copies, and 7 bulletins, aggregating 148 pages, in editions varying from 5,000 to 12,000 copies each, generally the latter figure. During the past year the college of agriculture has printed and distributed gratuitously to the people of our State 32,468,000 pages of printed matter. During the past year 107 farmers' institutes, each lasting two days, have been held, with an aggregate attendance of about 50,000 different persons. President A. A. Johnson, University of Wyoming: The College of Agriculture, State of Wyoming, was reorganized at the opening of the present university year, with additional buildings, laboratories, and instructors, and now offers to the youth of Wyoming the following courses of instruction in agriculture, mechanic arts, and military science: (1) A one-year course, which is for those whose time is limited, but who wish some practical instruction in farming and ranching. The studies are so arranged that students from the district schools can enter at the beginning of any term. The recitations and lectures are with the regular university classes, a certificate is given for work done, and the grades may be credited toward the longer courses. The fall term includes bookkeeping or physiology, drawing, English grammar or rhetoric, arithmetic or algebra, and woodworking. The winter term embraces bookkeeping or physical geography, history and principles of agriculture, botany or horticulture, arithmetic or algebra, and metal working. The spring term is devoted to bookkeeping or civil government, the agriculture of soils and tillage, botany or horticulture, zoology or geometry, and field and laboratory work. (2) A two-years course, which includes the above and selected studies from the second and third years of the complete course. (3) A four-years graduating course, which is devoted to a thorough training in agriculture. (4) A graduate course, which is for graduates who wish to devote their time to special research in the fields and laboratories of the Agricultural Experiment Station. The chemical laboratory is fitted up with a view to making it as useful as possible to the State at large, and good opportunities are offered for carrying on special investigations or courses of study. Prospectors who wish to take a course in determinative mineralogy, pharmacists who desire to perfect themselves in chemistry before taking examinations or going away to a school of pharmacy, and especially those contemplating the establishment of some industry developing the natural resources of Wyoming, will be given every available facility for their work. The study being individual and not in classes, hours can generally be arranged to suit the student. The only requirement is sufficient previous knowledge to undertake the line of work desired. Tuition is free; apparatus broken and chemicals used are charged at cost. President H. A. Hill, Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College: Practical agriculture in the fields or practical mechanics in the shops is compulsory with all males over 14 years of age, and optional with males 12 to 14 years of age; but with females it is as yet optional. Theoretical agriculture and mechanics are begun earlier, when possible, in a primary way, and followed by higher works. The other subjects specified by the act of Congress of 1890 are taught to the whole school. The principal departments of the university are the literary, the scientific, the agricultural and mechanical, and the normal. President Inman E. Page, Lincoln Institute: For several successive years it has been necessary to report that though the regents were able to employ competent persons to teach the mechanic arts, they were not able for want of funds to employ a suitable person to teach agriculture. I am glad to report that the legislature has made a small appropriation for instruction in agriculture, which hereafter will be a part of the curriculum of this institution. A new main building, costing $40,000, has just been completed to furnish the facilities of the building destroyed by fire in 1894. President L. M. Dunton, Claflin University Agricultural College and Mechanics' Trade Schools, Hampton Normal Schools and Agricultural Institute, Hampton Va., to be dedi cated November 19, 1896. Institute: Special attention has been given to the further development and improvement of the department of agriculture. The farm and buildings have been placed in the best condition. Instruction has been given in the principles of agriculture, chemistry, biology, and mineralogy, accompanied with lectures. Practical appli cations of the principles taught have been made so far as the funds and equipment of the institution would warrant. The institution has been especially successful in the development of the mechanical department. The principal industries are woodworking, ironworking, masonry, house painting, printing, and the domestic arts. The principles of trades are taught without any attempt to manufacture articles for the market, and such instruction has been given as students are most likely to need after leaving the institution. Principal H. B. Frissell, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute: The school has increased the work done for the students in the line of agriculture the past year. More ground bas been added for the experiment station, and 12 acres are now employed in this way. Trees and shrubs have been planted for the purpose of showing what can be done in the raising of fruit. Regular instruction in agriculture is now given to every class in school, besides that given in the regu lar agricultural department. Variety and culture tests have been made, chiefly of sweet and Irish potatoes. Tests are being made of different methods of the preparation of the soil and of after cultivation of crops. The effect of fertilizers on soil and crop is being tested. A continuous test of our dairy herd is being made by the Babcock method. In addition to the manual training which is carried on in connection with the academic work of the school and the trade teaching in the sixteen shops, a building is in process of erection on the school grounds, to cost $40,000, to be known as the Armstrong and Slater Memorial Trade School Building, where a larger number of students can be taught trades than heretofore, and better work done. It is the design to allow only those to enter this school who have finished the academic course of the school. The work carried on will be more productive, and the sixteen shops already in operation will give to the graduates from this trade school an opportunity to put into actual operation the lessons they have learned. With the manual training continued through the entire academic course, the trade school following, and the productive industries of the school, it is hoped that well-trained mechanics may be sent out. President J. H. Hill, West Virginia Colored Institute: Though our curriculum is that prescribed by the State for the normal schools, we shall organize during the coming year (1896-97) an academic course based upon the natural sciences, having in view the establishment of a pure agricultural course. During the year there has been completed a large two-story building 43 by 82 feet, at a cost of $8,000, which is to be used for a machinery hall. TABLE 1.-Statistics for 1895-96 of institutions endowed by the acts of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, with public lands or a part of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, or both. a Not including 31 men and 14 women in summer and in winter schools of agriculture. $182,446 120,860 237,000 1,028, 793 174,512 109,356 8,863 550,000 145,000 685,000 475,000 378,083 153,000 125,000 50,000 735,000 TABLE 1.-Statistics for 1895-96 of institutions endowed by the acts of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, with public lands or a part of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, or both-Continued. Name of institution and its post-office address. Name of president. Michigan State Agricultural College, Michigan.. University of Missouri (agricultural and mechan- Montana Agricultural College, Bozeman, Mont. State University of Nevada (agricultural and me- New Hampshire College of Agricultural and Me- Rutgers Scientific School, New Brunswick, N. J. Agricultural College of Cornell University, Ithaca, North Carolina Agricultural College, Raleigh, N. C. Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. J. L. Snyder. 15 39 10 50 526 R. H. Jesse 10 48 5 Chas. S. Markland. 8 17 8 29 5 8 15 16 204 8 17 11 3 38 23 118 Austin Scott. G. E. Morrow. George W. Atherton. |