II. Second Year, THIRD TERM.-Agriculture, its Processes.

Tillage, plowing; the physical manipulations of the land. Implements and Machinery. Drainage, Irrigation, etc. The Practice of Manures. Farm Buildings their construction and arrangement.

III. Third Year, FIRST TERM.-Agriculture, its Products.

1. Farming and Farm Crops.-The cereals, their cultivation, their management and uses. Hemp, Flax, and other commercial crops. Root crops and the Legumes. Grasses, and the care of Pasture Lands. Rotation of crops, and the use of Artificial Fertilizers.

IV. Third Year, SECOND TERM.-Products continued.

2. Animals and Animal Products-The Principles of Breeding and the various Improved Breeds. The care of Domestic Animals and Fattening for Market. Dairy Management, including Milk, Butter and Cheese. Animals of Draught.

V. Third Year, THIRD TERM.-Products continued.

3. Horticultural Products and Rural Embellishment.-The Orchard, including the Nursery propagation of Trees. The Market Garden; forcing of plants and fruits. The Vineyard; manufacture of wine, cider, etc. Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Landscape Gardening.

Either during the First Term of the Second Year, or subsequently, the study of Book-keeping will be continued with special reference to Farm Accounts, which is believed to be one of the most important branches of study, and opportunities of practice will ultimately be afforded the students in keeping the accounts of the College Farm. The study of Botany will also be continued with direct bearing upon the plants, useful or injurious, which the farmer most frequently meets. Some attention will also be given so Entomology, either as a separate branch, or in connection with those farm and orchard products which suffer most from insect depredators.

The lectures of the different terms are adapted as far as possible to the seasons when they can best be practically exemplified.

For College graduates and other advanced students who may wish to take a one year course in Agriculture only, the lectures will be so arranged that such students can attend a double course during two-thirds of the year, thus:

1st Term-the lectures numbered III; 2d Tm., I and IV; 3d Tm., II and V.

MILITARY TACTICS.

During each year, the students will be drilled in Military tactics. They will also be instructed in the principles of Military Engineering and Fortification, and will be afforded opportunities for visiting the various military posts and fortifications in the vicinity. For this purpose the school is furnished with arms by the Quartermaster's department of the State.

APPLIANCES.

Among the advantages for the profitable pursuit of the above studies, are : 1. The Library, the Collections, the Literary Societies, and all the facilities for literary education furnished by Rutgers College.

2. A Farm, where special attention will be given to Market Gardening, and to the cultivation of fruits; where the best modes of culture and the most improved implements are used; and where a system of keeping a full and com

plete account of all the operations, expenses and income of the farm can be studied.

3. An Observatory, arranged and fitted with all the instruments needed for teaching practical astronomy.

4. Accommodations for the Laboratory and Museum, with ample room for lectures and experimental science, and for the practical operations of analytical chemistry; and where special provision is made for exhibiting the collections of the minerals, rocks, fossils, plants and animals of the State.

5. Full sets of instruments for Surveying and Engineering.

6. Excursions to mines, manufactories, &c., under the direction of Professors.

ADMISSION, FEES, ETC.

Applicants for admission to either of the above courses, as candidates for a diploma, must be, at least, sixteen years of age, and must bring testimonials of good moral character. They must also pass a satisfactory examination in the following subjects, viz: Arithmetic, Algebra to Quadratic Equations, English Grammar and Geography.

Persons desiring to enter the school for the purpose of pursuing special branches, will be required to pass an examination on the subjects necessary to fit them for pursuing those branches to advantage.

Adults who wish to attend upon any of the courses of lectures, and are not candidates for diplomas or certificates, can do so, subject only to the rules for fees and discipline.

The proper time for entrance is at Commencement (June 17th and 18th, 1867,) or at the beginning of the College year, (Sept. 20th, 1867,) when new classes are formed; but students will be admitted to a class at any time, upon their passing a satisfactory examination on the subjects the class have passed over. Examinations are held at the close of each term.

Diplomas will be conferred upon those who have passed satisfactory examinations upon all the subjects prescribed in either course of study; and Certificates will be given to those who pass examinations in special branches.

Fees.--The charge for tuition is $75 a year; one-third, or $25, being payable at the commencement of each term; incidentals, $8.

Students in Analytical Chemistry are charged $15 additional, each term, for chemicals and use of apparatus.

The fee for conferring the diploma is $7.50.

FACULTY.

The President of the College is Rev. W. H. CAMPBELL, LL. D.; and the scientific Professors are, GEO. H. COOK, in Chemistry and Natural History; DAVID MURRAY, Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; and Col. JOSIAH H. Kellogg, U. S. A., in Engineering and Military Science. A Professor of Agriculture is to be appointed. Rev. T. S. DOOLITTLE is Professor of Rhetoric, etc., and there are two Tutors, one in Chemistry and one in Modern Languages.

STATE STUDENTS.

Every county is entitled to send as many free students to the Scientific School as the county sends representatives to the Assembly.

The number of students in 1866-7, was 26.

KENTUCKY AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE.

AT LEXINGTON.

HISTORY.

KENTUCKY'S portion of the grant, amounting to three hundred and thirty thousand acres, was accepted by the State, January 27, 1863, and its appropriation was determined by the Legislature, February 22, 1865. By the enactment last mentioned, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky," became a special or distinct department of the University of the State, established at Lexington. The scrip was sold for $164,960, and is invested in Kentucky State bonds, bearing interest at 6 per cent. per annum, yielding an income of nearly $10,000 annually.

The history of the University has a romantic interest, but it would occupy too much time to narrate it here, in much detail. It was organized in 1858, chiefly or wholly in consequence of the earnest efforts of Mr. John B. Bowman, of Mercer County, who conceived in 1855, while pursuing the occupations of a farmer, the plan for founding for the people of his native State, "A Modern American Christian University," especially accessible to poor young men of the industrial classes in society. In one hundred and fifty days of actual labor, as he himself writes, subscriptions were obtained to the amount of $150,000, and soon increased to $200,000,-a large proportion being secured by notes of $500 and $1,000, from farmers in Central Kentucky.

In February, 1858, a charter was secured for the new institution, under the name of the Kentucky University, and in September, 1859, the College of Arts was opened, under the presidency of Robert Milligan, in the town of Harrodsburg. Various obstacles prevented its permanent establishment at that place.

At length the Trustees of Transylvania University, instituted at Lexington in 1798, made overtures for a union with the new establishment, and after various negotiations it was decided to combine these two foundations, and unite with them the third foundation derived from the Congressional grant. A bill permissive of this arrangement having been passed by a large majority in the General Assembly, Kentucky University was removed to Lexington, the grounds, buildings and endowment of Transylvania University were formally transferred to it, and the State Agricultural and Mechanical College was made one of its departments. The capital of the entire University now exceeded $500,000, which was soon enlarged by subscriptions from the citizens of Lexington, to the amount of $100,000 more. Somewhat later, Mr. Bowman purchased for the permanent site of the University, Ashland, the homestead of Henry Clay, and Woodland, an adjoining estate which extends within the limits of the city. The entire tract contains 433 acres of land of much beauty and fertility, (cost $140,000,) and is already the seat of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. The Kentucky University, thus reorganized, consists of six Departments.or Colleges, namely: 1, Of the Arts; 2, Of Agriculture and Mechanics; 3, Of the

Bible; 4, Of Normal Instruction; 5, Of Law; and 6, Of Medicine. An Academy or Preparatory School is also maintained. It is with the second only of these departments with which we are now concerned.

AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE.

College, in one or more of In order to graduate in any must pass a satisfactory ex

Ten schools or sections will be organized in this which the student may, at his option, be enrolled. school, he must remain in it at least a year, and amination. In order to take a Bachelor's degree, he must have graduated in several of the schools.

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

I. SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term-Mental Philosophy, begun.

Second Term.-Mental Philosophy, completed.

SENIOR CLASS.

First Term.-Moral Philosophy.

Second Term.-Christian Ethics.

II. SCHOOL OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

First Term.-Fowler's English Grammar; Klipstein's Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Analecta Anglo-Saxonaca; Lectures on the Science of Language; Exercises in English Composition and Elocution.

Second Term.-Fowler's English Grammar; Klipstein's Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Analecta Anglo-Saxonica; ". Anglo-Saxon Version of the Holy Gospels; " Lectures on the Science of Language; English Composition and Elocution.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

First Term.-Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres; Essays, Declamations, and Debates.

Second Term.-Kames' Elements of Criticism; Chamber's English Literature; Essays, Declamations, and Debates.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term.-Chamber's English Literature; Whately's Logic; Essays, Declamations, and Logical Disputations.

Second Term.-Chamber's English Literature; Whately's Rhetoric; Essays, Original Declamations, and Logical Disputations.

SENIOR CLASS.

First Term.-Lectures on English Literature; Readings in English Literature, with Critiques; Theses, Original Orations, Disputations, and Exercises in Extemporaneous Speaking.

Second Term.-Lectures on English Literature; Readings in English Literature, with Critiques; Samson's Elements of Art Criticism, with Lectures; Theses, Original Orations, Disputations, and Extemporaneous Speaking.

II. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS.

FRESHMAN CLASS.

First Term.-Towne's Algebra.

Second Term.-Davies' Legendre's Geometry, Books I, II, III, IV, V, VI.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

First Term.-Davies' Legendre's Geometry, Books VII, VIII, IX; Plane Trigonometry and Measurement.

Second Term.-Loomis' Surveying and Navigation; Loomis' Geometry.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term.-Loomis' Calculus.

Second Torm.-Snell's Olmsted's Mechanics.

SENIOR CLASS.

First Term.-Davies' Spherical Trigonometry; Snell's Olmsted's Astronomy, begun.

Second Term.-Astronomy, completed.

IV. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term.-Elementary Chemistry and Physics; Instruction given by daily Lectures, fully illustrated by experiments, specimens, &c., and impressed by daily Examinations; Applications of these branches of science.

Second Term.-Lectures on Chemistry, illustrated by experiments, continued twice a week; Elementary Physics, with experiments, three times a week.

SENIOR CLASS.

During the Session.-Experimental and Applied Chemistry and Chemical Physics; five Lectures a week, more thorough than during the Elementary Course, and illustrated to the greatest possible extent by experiments, models, diagrams, specimens, &c. The numerous applications of the science to Agricul ture, the Arts, and Manufactures, are specially indicated, and the Art of Testing in general and the Detection of Poisons considered. Organic Chemistry is discussed during the latter part of the course, and such instruction given in the Chemistry of Vegetable and Animal Physiology as the alloted time allows.

Practical Chemistry.-Provision will be made for instruction in Practical Chemistry, including the Chemistry of the Soil, as soon as students are sufficiently prepared.

Text-Books.-Yuman's New Class Book of Chemisty; Fownes' Chemistry for Students; Quackenbos' Natural Philosophy; Graham's Elements of Chemistry.

V. SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY.

SOPHOMORE CLASS.

First Term.--Terminology and Outlines of Structural and Systematic Botany;. Collection and examination of Specimens; General Views of the Animal Kingdom; Collection and Preservation of Insects, Birds and Mammals.

Second Term.-Structural and Physiological Botany, embracing the Laws of Propagation, Hydridization, Training, Pruning, Budding, Grafting, &c.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term.--Human Physiology and Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, especially of domestic animals; the making of Illustrative Preparations; Collection of Zoological Specimens.

Second Term.-Exotic Botany, including the Green-house, the Grapery, and Principles of Treatment; Geology; Outlines of Mineralogy and Lithology; Sources and Materials of Mineral wealth; Building Stones; Mineral Veins; the Location and Working of Mines and Wells for Petroleum, Salt, Artesian Waters, &c.; Collection of Specimens.

SENIOR CLASS.

First Term.-Systematic Zoology; Collection of Specimens; Outlines of Historical and Dynamical Geology.

Second Term.-Entomology; Insects injurious or beneficial to Vegetation; Preparation of a Thesis.

VI. SCHOOL OF HISTORY.

JUNIOR CLASS.

First Term.-Smith's History of Greece; Liddell's History of Rome; Lectures.

Second Term.-The Student's Gibbon; Political Economy; Lectures.