peculiarly adapted to their pursuits is the course of study, it is to be hoped farmers will avail themselves more and more of the advantages here offered.

The College for its own sake also needs intimate relationswith the farmers of the State. We have a farm on which not only scientific principles of culture, rotation of crops, &c., are illustrated, but where the various manual operations are taught; we have machiney to use; we have stabling, storing, feeding, housing conveniencies to plan, and grounds to beautify. All these things can be studied properly only by visiting farms and gardens in various localities. But the same circumstances which make it desirable that the instructors of the College should know what is done amongst the best farmers of the country-the fact that this is a professional school of a kind hitherto untried, that we teach at once the practical bearings of the sciences taught, that we have a farm, and grounds, and stock to take care of, and that we are obliged to give instruction so largely by lectures, by confining the professors so constantly to the vicinity of the College, makes it particularly difficult for them to avail themselves of the advantages of visiting other localities which they so peculiarly need.

Specimens of our cattle and swine were exhibited at the Ingham County Fair; but after their long journey from the east, it was not thought advisable to send them to the State Fair at Kalamazoo.

Mr. Prentiss, Superintendent of the Gardens, has put up and distributed to all students who desired them, choice garden and other seeds, and slips of flowering shrubs, &c.

The Faculty contributed from the vegetable garden ten barrels of choice vegetables, including two barrels of pickles, to the Sanitary Commission, for the use of soldiers.

T. C. ABBOT,

President of the College.

REPORT

ON THE RELATIONS OF THE FARM AND GARDEN TO THE INSTRUCTION

OF THE COLLEGE: ADOPTED BY THE BOARD, 1863.

Resolved, That the farm shall immediately be divided into suitable and convenient fields, each of which shall be designated by a number.

A map of the farm shall be prepared, on which shall be represented the different fields, the number of acres in each, the character of the soil and the state of cultivation.

A map of the garden shall likewise be prepared, giving its divisions in sections, and subdivisions of sections, with a representation of the character and properties of the soil.

These maps, when approved by the Board of Agriculture, shall be preserved in the office of the Secretary, and copies of the same shall be mounted and placed in the Hall of the College Building and in that of the Boarding Hall.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

RULE 1. At least one week before the commencement of the term in each year, the Superintendent of the Farm shall present to the President of the College, in writing, a plan of the system of cultivation and management of the farm, proposed for the season, giving in detail the contemplated operations for each field and division. This plan shall embrace:

1. Proposed permanent improvements;

2. The crops to which each field is to be devoted, together with the variety and quantity of seed proposed;

3. The mode of culture, and the kind and quantity of fertilizers proposed for each crop;

4. A detailed and accurate description of any new seed or mode of culture, if any such is proposed, together with a full account of the advantages likely to be derived therefrom.

RULE 2. The Superintendent of the Horticultural Department shall, in like manner, present a plan of operations for his department, giving the details as minutely as possible for each section and subdivision of the gardens and grounds.

RULE 3. The Faculty shall carefully consider the plans presented by the Superintendents, and discuss, as fully as possible, the principles involved in the proposed methods; and they may offer such suggestions and amendments as may seem desirable for perfecting and maturing the same. The plans as perfected and adopted by the Faculty, shall be carried out in practice on the farm and in the gardens, unless modified by the Board of Agriculture when referred to them.

RULE 4. The plans for conducting the farm and gardens, as soon as determined, shall be recorded in full by the Secretary, in books kept in his office for that purpose.

RULE 5. The Professor of Agricultural Chemistry shall present to the Faculty a detailed statement of a proposed system for the management, manufacture and proper preservation of manures, having reference to the best and most economical disposition of the same, and the adaptation of special manures to particular crops.

RULE 6. The Faculty, after a full examination and discussion of the proposed system for the management of manures, shall determine the plan to be pursued, and make suitable provisions for putting into practical operation the plan adopted.

RULE. 7. The Superintendents of the Farm and Gardens shall keep a journal of all the work done in each field of their respective departments, and of all transactions connected with the same. This journal shall be transcribed by the Secretary, once a month, into books kept in his office for that purpose. The journal shall embrace:

1. A general statement of the weather at the time of preparing the soil-of putting in the crop-of cultivating the same during its growth, and at the time of harvesting;

2. A detailed account of the crops raised in each field and in the garden, including a statement of the condition of the

soil before cultivation, and during its preparation for the crop; the method of seeding, with variety and quantity of seed used, and its preparation for sowing or planting;

3. Details of the growth of the crops and any circumstances that may have influenced the development or maturing of it;

4. Time of harvesting the crop, the condition in which it is secured, the disposition made of the same--as, where stored, whether sold or not, with the yield and general results;

5. Purpose for which the crop has been cultivated, whether for profit or to test some new variety of plant or method of cultivation.

RULE 8. A committee shall be appointed by the Faculty at the commencement of the term in each year, to prepare and report a series of experiments for the next season, which report shall be presented to the Faculty at its first meeting in October following.

RULE 9. The Faculty shall decide upon the experiments to be made, and the manner of conducting the same; and shall appoint some one of their number to superintend such experiments. Each officer having in charge any experiment shall keep a full record of his proceedings in conducting the same.

RULE 10. Students, who have attained a suitable proficiency in their studies, may be appointed to assist in conducting experiments, and they shall, for that purpose, be under the direction of the officer having charge of the same.

RULE 11. The Superintendent of the Farm shall present to the Faculty, at their first meeting in February, a report on the stock belonging to the College, giving a detailed account of its condition, mode of management, increase and results of the system of breeding, together with such suggestions as he may think fit to make. This report shall embrace

1. The number and kinds of horses, their management and condition;

2. The number and condition of each of the different breeds of neat cattle; the number of grade animals, and the breeds