AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

opened and another act passed by the legislature providing pecuniary means for the establishment of an institution, which it is confidently believed will succeed. The act provides for loaning from the surplus of the United States Deposit Fund§40, 000 for twenty-one yGars, without interest, to be expended in the purchase of a farm, in Seneca county, of not less than 300 acres, and for the erection of college buildings thereon, provided the like sum of§40, 000 should be obtained by private subscription for the same purposeé, and its payment secured to the satisfaction of the comptroller, and the land so purchased to be mortgaged to the State to secure the payment of the money loaned. The trustees accordingly selected a farm of 680 acres lying between the village of Ovid and the easterly shore of Seneca Lake. Posses- sion has been taken of this farm and the college buildings are in process of erection. 14

A kindred institution was also chartered, in 1854, by the legislature, under the name of The People's College of the State of New York,“ which is located at Havana, Schuyler county. The design of this institution is to give instruction in agriculture and the mechanic arts, and such other branches of knowledge as the students may prefer. Connected with it is a farm of 200 acres, on which the college build- ings are now being erected.

The State of Michigan has a constitutional provision requiring her legislature to establish an agricultural college; conformably to which an appropriation of 850,000 was made, in 1855, with which a tract of nearly 700 acres was purchased in Lansing, and the buildings erected. In 1857, the legislature made a further appropriation of 540, 000 for the use of this establishment; and in the May following, the first class of students was received. The design of this institution is to receive the pupil direct from the common schools of the State, and give such a course of English and scientific education as will render him an intelligent citizen and a practical farmer, qualifying him to discharge such duties as his country may require.

In March, 1855,„The Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania' was incorporated, at the instance and under the auspices of the Penn- sylvania State Agricultural Society, for similar objects as those of the Agricultural College of Michigan. It is located at the junction of Nittany and Penn Valleys, near Bellefonte, in Centre county, and comprises, with the buildings now- being erected, a farm of 400 acres, 200 of which were donated by General James Irvin, of Bellefonte. Its resources consist of§10, 000 appropriated by the State Agricul- tural Society; a legacy of 55, 000 from the late Elliott Cresson, of

and an appropriation of 850, 000 by the legislature, one half of which was made contingent upon a similar amount to be obtained from other sources, forming an aggregate capital of§100, 000. The trustees school edifice that will accommodate, when completed, three hundred students. The farm, at present, is under thesupervision of Mr. William G. Waring, who has for some time been engaged in planting orchards and hedges, as well as in embellishing the grounds with shade trees

Philadelphia;§10,000 subscribed by the citizens of Centre county;

have erected several of the requisite buildings, among which is the