Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-08-26

"A N a ID D r e S.
ne4i ,ata'i FROM THE sos p 91a'- ta
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
- 20; laAi OF THE
-TARMlRg HIGH SCHOOL
: PENNSYLVANIA. .s a..
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This IIstitution, at this moment, claims the
special attention of its friends Its projectors
design that it shall be school where a gri-
cultural knowledge and science may be OBJ
tanned at an expense so moderate as to be
within the means of those whose occupation is
that of Farmer that whilst youths are
being taught the business which lis to be the
occupation of their after life, ,sthey will be con-
tributing to their own education, by the labor
of their own hands. Under the direction of
Professors who will be skilled in the art OF
farming, and in all those natural sciences
which pertain to it, all the management, bus
incss and work of the farm, will he perform
ed by the pupils whilst their minds are be-
agriculture, their daily occupation will be
practically testing the truth of what they
learn. H.. ..-,., ~. ~. .-.r,r. 81.
; 1t is the desire of the Board of Trustees to
put the public in possession of all information
respecting the design, present condition and
future prospects of the Farmers High School,
and to ask Of them to take such interest in the
Institution as its object aud merits demand.
9 The Board of Trustees in 1855, after a
most careful and personal examination of sew
eral points, in various quarters of the State,
fixed the location in Centre County, on the
Southern slope of Penn and Nittany Valleys,
within, perhaps: five miles Of the Geographi-
cal Centre of the State, where the land is
limestone, fertile and beautiful As place
for practical agriculture, nothing more favor
able could be desired /; and it is sufficiently
removed from those intrusions and annoyaR-
ces of town or public place, so prejudicial to
the pursuit of study, or the security of we'll
managed farm OR garden I o.
Two hundred acres of this land was gener-
ously donated to the Institution by Gen. James
Irwin, with the privilege of purchasing one
hundred acres upon each side of it, at any
time within five years. at sixty dollars an
acre and in the mean time, to have possess
sion of the whole, upon the payment of the
interest upon the value of the last mentioned
two hundred acres. The Board Of Trustees
took possession of the whole, and have appro-
priated of it, to the apple and peach orchards,
u Z acres TO smaller fruits, % acres to
the garden and nursery, l64 acres ). and to
the campus, 125 acres. Y system Of record
of all the doiugs on the farm has been arran-
ged, from which we extract the following
memorandum of what has already been done:
oF IMPROVEMENTS, ON THE FARM. 1i,ao.
90 acres have been grubbed and sprouted; !;
$40 rods of fence rows cleared, grubbed; pick
ed and burnt; 81 acres Of Wheat sown Sep
tenlber, $50, now good put down in clover;
75 acres of corn planted spring of 1857; 546
rods of hedge planted in 1856; 500 rods of
hedge in 1857; 325 rods of rail fence ;. 43-
coo nursery plants set out, comprising full
assortment of the most desirable nursery
; stock; 250 rods of seed beds of fruits. hedge
plants, &C.; 10000 plants of over 100 diff
fercut sorts, received as, contributions, many
of them intended for the arhore tum, and now
set in reserve beds, until the ground can be
prepared |; 600 apple trees set out in orchard
/ rows; 400 peach do ) 200, plums, aprico,
J and nectarines do; go pear, standard and
| dwarf do; 200 cherry 1000 plants of nuts,
berries. .&e..; 1900 grapeyines in vineyard
J60 avenue NAPLES 100 chestnut, iarch, oak
! pine and other Seeding timber trees, collec-
ted and to- beplantedi in lines, SO as to give al
] sight the n.easurelard location of every par
( Of the farm: 900, pine, spruce, fir, &C., to bt
/ planted for sheltering hedge. OF these al
are doing we'll beyond expectation, under tho
! favoring influences of a good season, except
! ing only smalls portion of the contributed
! plants. which were injured by delay and iex
posure. =; f;s - st-y{,l, heassssdy y0a b9sef-
/ 6... oEf EUILDINGs.s,y, .s5 ;..
T. One double-storied barn is finished and fit
Hted up, aud has been In use parts of two sea
) sons; II is1very capacious and much admired
1 for Its aconyenience. a The farmers house i
7 also finished and part of the ont buildings
/ For the college building, the cellars have beer
excavated; 600O perch of superior buildin;
! stone, are 1uarried and on the grounds thre
gangs of trickmakers have been at work fo
! some time, and the masons are about to com
mence the walls. The delay occasioncd b,
I uncertainty up to the goth of May, as to th
amount of funds which would be at the dispo
y sal of the Trustees, affected all work on th
farm and nurseries as well as the buildings
though to less extent. Work was done wit
hired teams and tools, and temporary hands
/ ano therefore suhAer hucu oisauNantaSe mos
of the, ground being new and but imperfect
cleared, and yet with many stumps and root:
This account might be much enlarged by dc
tail but it will serve to communicate an ide
2 of what the progress has been, = alrJp
All this work has been done under the
rection and management of VIM. G. Warine
: Esq. a practical horticulturist and farmer
in whose skill and science the Board of Tru.
tees have the most entire confidence.
IL A contract has been entered into, for Il
erection of an ediice, calculated for the res
q dence of Professors, lecture-halls and dorm