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Expense of Course.

The expense of the course is very moderate and within the means of any [unclear: young] man desiring to complete it. A detailed statement of expense will, from the [unclear: index] be readily found elsewhere in the catalogue. From the following statements it [unclear: fdgg] be seen that room rent is free and opportunity for work is provided for and [unclear: require] of students of the Agricultural College.

Museums, Apparatus and Farm Library.—A small but valuable library of [unclear: fan] books has been collected to which additions are soon to be made. In addition [unclear: jgghgh] the Agricultural library, the students of the Agricultural College have access to [unclear: the] University library.

Museum.—An Agricultural museum is being organized that will be of [unclear: hghgh]assistance in class room work. A valuable geological and zoological collection, [unclear: consented] with the University, will render like assistance.

Chemical and Physical Laboratories—Laboratories in each of these [unclear: department] are well supplied with modern appliances for illustrating lecture room teachings.

Club Houses.—A group of club-houses on the farm will accommodate a [unclear: large] number of students, that are devoted to their free use, to facilitate the [unclear: instruction] given in field work. It is desired that students avail themselves of rooms at [unclear: the] club-house.

Greenhouse.—A greenhouse is connected with the Horticultural [unclear: Department] affording invaluable assistance in connection with the botanical studies, and for [unclear: the] improvement of plants.

Farm.—The farm is divided into two departments—Farm and Horticultural, [unclear: The] former consists of 600 acres of land of varying quality and is well adapted to [unclear: in] purpose of instruction and experiment work. The students will be required to [unclear: labour] six hours a week, two hours on each of three days of the week, and will be [unclear: condensated] according to the character and amount of the work done, ten cents being the maximum pay per hour. In addition to this field labor, students will be [unclear: requirement] to perform farm labor whenever it is desirable to illustrate lecture room [unclear: teaching]. Such work will be done without pay,

Experiments will be constantly carried on for the farming interests of the [unclear: State] and for lecture room work. Students will be required to assist in the experiments

The Horticultural Department will stand in the same relation to the lecture [unclear: rove] and to the public that the farm does. It is an indispensable aid in teaching [unclear: the] student small fruit culture, grafting, budding, pruning, hot-house propagation [unclear: and] vegetable gardening, etc.

The Horticultural Department is provided with two greenhouses—one [unclear: 25×11] feet and the other 16×80 feet, and has also about 1,000 feet of hot-bed sash for [unclear: propagating] purposes. In the orchard and fruit garden are about eight hundred [unclear: varieties] of fruits, which are used in illustrating lecture room work and for [unclear: experiments] purposes.

As an experiment station, the farm has organized many experiments in [unclear: stock] feeding, tillage and crop improvement. It has already published, under [unclear: the] present management, one bulletin of results of pig feeding, and is about to [unclear: issue] results of four months' work in stock feeding, after which frequent bulletins [unclear: will] appear regularly. As the farm has been but a fraction of a year under its [unclear: present] management, it is not deemed desirable now to make a special report of its work.

The Farm Superintendent, Levi Chubbuck, B. Ag., is a graduate of the [unclear: Missouri] Agricultural College.