Middle Year Course in Agriculture. First Term Mathematics, Loomis's Trigonometry, Surveying and Levelling, with use of instruments and practice in the field; Drawing of Plans and Maps; Lectures on Civil Engineering; Practical Botany, useful and noxious plants; Propagation of plants, fruits, &c.; Organic Chemistry, Gums, Sugar, Alcohol, Essential Oils, Organic Acids and Bases, Fermentation, Putrefaction, &c.; Lectures. Second Term Mathematics, Geometry completed; Mensuration and Navigation; Spherical Trigonometry, Analytical Chemistry, Atfield's and Bowman's; Physics, Loomis's Natural Philosophy; Zoology, Human and Comparative Anatomy. First Term Course in Mechanic Arts. Mathematics, Loomis's Trigonometry, Surveying and Levelling, with use of instruments and practice in the field;" Drawing of Plans and Maps; Lectures on Civil Engineering; Descriptive Geometry, Church's Organic Chemistry, Gums, Alcohol, Essential Oils, Organic Bases; Fermentation, Putrefaction, &c.; Lectures. Second Term Mathematics, Geometry completed; Mensuration and Navigation; Spherical Trigonometry, Analytical Chem-istry, Atfield's and Bowman's; Mechanical Drawing; Lectures on Machinery; the design, construction and use of Prime Motors; Physics, Loomis's Natural Philosophy; Zoology, Human and Comparative Anatomy. Senior Year · Course in Agriculture. First Term Agricultural Chemistry, Soils, Manures, (natural and artificial), and various farm crops; Zoology, General Principles, Classification and special relations to Agriculture; Physics, Astronomy and Meteorology, (Loomis's and Brocklesby's ;) Lectures; Political Economy. Second Term-Agricultural Chemistry, use of the various crops in the feeding of stock and production of milk, butter, cheese, fruit, &c.; Zoology, Human and Comparative, Physiology and Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Rural Economy; Lectures; Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Haven; English Composition and Declamation through the year; Lectures through the year on Rural Architecture, Landscape Gardening and Esthetics of the farm. Course in Mechanic Arts. First Term - Chemistry, the Analysis of rocks, ores, minerals and organic bodies; Mechanics, the Principles of Mechanism applied to the strength of materials, the working of stone, the location and construction of roads, and the building of bridges, including Graphical Problems; Physics, Astronomy and Meteorology (Loomis's and Brocklesby's ;) Political Economy. Second Term-Technical Chemistry, the construction and management of iron works, glass works, bleaching works, salt works, dyeing and calico printing;. Technical Mechanics; Lectures on mill work and other topics relating to manufacturing industry, also on applied electricity; Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Haven; English Composition and Declamation through the year; Lectures upon the Agricultural and Mineral resources of the United States and other countries. In addition to the regular lectures to be given by the faculty of the college, occasional lectures or short courses will be given by gentlemen of eminence, on the various sciences connected with Agriculture and Mechanics. A Bible exercise once a week during the whole course. This may and probably will be somewhat modified from time to time after the classes have been all organized and experience has made suggestions of desirable changes. It will be seen upon examination that these studies are all of great practical importance to the farmer, being admirably adapted to secure thorough mental discipline and valuable agricultural knowledge to all who pursue them with fidelity. From the examination made at the time of this visit the board are thoroughly convinced of the great importance of this institution to the agricultural interest of our state. To be sure it is yet in its infancy, but it has already made all the progress that the limited means at its command, and the brief time it has been in operation, would lead any person at all acquainted with the discouraging embarrassments attending the establishment of a new college, to anticipate, and even more. The gentlemen standing at the head of it and having it in their immediate charge, are live men, fully abreast the spirit of this new age, possessing great energy and large experience in the practical instruction of young men. It does not become this board to lavish encomiums upon these men, but they feel constrained to say that the advancement made at Dartmouth, since the accession to its Presidency of Dr. Smith, affords conclusive evidence of the possession on his part of a general wisdom, keen foresight, extended view and executive ability seldom met with. And no less fortunate has the Agricultural College been in its leading Professor than it has been in its President. The peculiar training enjoyed by Prof. Dimond, both upon the farm and in schools of learning, based as it has been upon natural talents of a high order, and supplemented by rare business capacities, has most admirably fitted him for the important post he occupies so ably. Were this a fit occasion, we could also bear witness to the eminent ability of the several other gentlemen associated with these upon the faculty of instruction. It now remains to be seen if the people of New Hampshire will second these devoted efforts by their patronage, and by such other means as may be at their command. If the farmers of this state wish to raise themselves to a higher plane of intelligence and to a greater success in their calling, this noble institution, devised and erected with special reference to their improvement, stands with open portals to aid them. We sincerely hope that they will not only avail themselves of the advantages thus extended to them, but be ever ready to do what they can to encourage its officers and render its existence as lasting as the blessings it diffuses are beneficial. One embarrassment has arisen which should not be allowed to stand long in the path of its advancement. This is the want of a suitable building in which its students may find room and board. The apartments of the Academical Department are already more than filled by its own students. The rent of those afforded by private houses can be had only at prices beyond a limit convenient for many of the students to meet. It is a suggestion of Mr. Conant that a suitable building be erected, at the earliest practicable day, to meet this pressing necessity, towards the cost of which he offers to give five thousand dollars, on condition that the state will furnish the balance of the sum required, which, will probably be some twelve or fifteen thousand dollars. That such an appropriation would be a wise one we have no doubt, and commend its serious consideration to the legislature, confident that such an investment will enure to the great benefit of our agricultural population for generations to come. F.FRENCH THE WEBSTER PLOW, MADE AND USED BY DANIEL WEBSTER, AND NOW IN THE MUSEUM OF THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, AT HANOVER. Length of plow, 13 feet; beam, 9 feet, 1 inch; handles, 6 feet, 4 inches; distance between handles, 2 feet, 10 inches; width of mould-board, 20 inches; width of share, 16 inches. THE CROPS AND DROUGHT OF 1870. [An address by James O. Adams, Secretary of the Board, delivered at the Farmer's Meeting at Concord, November 29th, 1870.] The subject which has been assigned to me, at this meeting, is the only really dry one in the programme; but though it be dry, and in its consideration I must be confined to a detail of facts, I will endeavor to present the matter in such a way as to suggest profitable inquiry and to lead to beneficial action, by the soilworkers of New Hampshire. It has been no uncommon occurrence of late years, to experience sharp and sometimes withering droughts; they have usually commenced in July and almost invariably terminated in August, or early in September. The most widely extended drought, within my personal knowledge, took place in 1854. It extended over much of New England, but was most severely felt in the middle states and the west; but neither the dryness of 1854, nor that of 1865, both of which were noted in meteorological reports, in some sections of the country, equalled in severity and destructiveness that which prevailed the past season in nearly every section of our state, and extended over New England and no inconsiderable portion of New York. In this section, the dry season dates from early in July,—a rain falling July 8th, and no more with the exception of two or three showers, scarcely one of which was accompanied by thunder and lightning, until late in September. Day after day the sun poured down his parching rays; weeks passed and no joyous rain fell upon the arid earth; even months rolled on and the heavens withheld their accustomed outpourings from the clouds. Vines withered in the heat of successive days, and at length refused to revive under the refreshing influences of the night; the cereals had too far matured to be seriously influ |