New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-21
STATE AGRIcU1rURAL COLLEGE.

The Trustees Of the New-York State Agricultural
College have issued pamphlet containing the charter,
ordinances regulations and course of studies which 1t
is proposed TO pursue. Ii is embellisbed with neatly
printed view Of the College buildngs they will ap-
pear when fully completed. The Board of Manage
ment have been fortunate in securing as President 80
energetic and capable as Major NJ. X. Patrick,
and we have great hopes that he, with the cooperation
of such men as Henry Wager, John A. King, B. P.
Johnson James O. Sheldon and their associates will
accomplish much good.
As vet none of the Professors have been appointed,
except William II. Brewer, who has accepted the
chair Of Agricultural Chemistry and Botany.
The course Of instruction is to extend over three
wears on the completion of which special degree and
diploma will be conferred. The year is divided into
Summer and Winter terms-the former commencing in
April the latter in December. No student under six
teen ,ea1s of age will be received The annual charge
for tuition, with board, lodgings lights, and fuel, is
$500.
During the first, or Freshman year the STUDENT viii
be drilled in grammar arithmetic algebra, geometry,
the rudiments Of chemistry mineralogy geology, and
botany; while in the field, he viii learn to plow spade,
plant and manage crops and the dairy During the
Winter months, he will be instructed in making and
preserving manures, feeding animals, grating, &c.
higher branches of mathematics, chemistry, and the
cognate sciences and he commences to make surveys,
psn and build roads, and gets peep into comparative
anatomy, vegetable physiology, and drawing. His
field studies are ampl6ed too. lie now drains land,
bnds fences plants trees manages teams and wagons,
and makes excursions to collect specimens of minerals
and pants. In Winter he breaks and trains horses,
ets ont timber fattens aud breeds stocks, and in-
doors continues and extends his range Of study Prae'
cay in the shop and field and theoretically, by means
of models and drawings in the schooroom, be learns
the mechanical principles involved in the construction
of every variety Of farm implement and machines ms
hand being hardened and strengthened by the labor OF
eonstructng and repairing the implements, and trained
to skh manipulation i'm the delicate tracing OF theH
proportions in his sketoh-boOk.
The third year the student very properly Is wei
rose5 in the laws Of our State re)ang TO contracts,
hgbvays and fences in farm bookkeeping, and IN the
ote branches of learning In the laboratory, be not
only snalyzes earths and metals but his experiments
Load into the realm Of electricity and magnetism He
draws landscapes animals and architectural plans and
puts the finishing touches to his study
In n worI il is expected to take our farmer boy
,brongb every branch Of learning that bears directly
mon his occupation and to turn him ont at the end oi
the three years good farmer and a weli-edueated
man. All this for paltry six hundred dollars or whs'
John Johnston would get in a single year from fifteen
acres Of his wheat. And LET US here suggest tha'
e,be great te-draper could be induced to take par
in The instruction Of the boys it would be well Tor the
College.
Students contemplating joining the institution VIII De
furnished with every necessary information by apply
ine personally or by letter, to NJ. K. Patrick Presi
den, Of the College, Ovid, Seneca Co, n. y