The Portland daily press., 1866-09-26
The s,.,e AaricaI.uraI college.


The following communication appears in
the Bangor Wing. 1t will be seen that meet
ing of the Trustees win be held at the Farm
in Orono to day, and that there is pros
pect that the College may be opened for the
reception of students next Spring.
We take special pleasure in announcing as
now fixed tact, that the Trustees of the State
College OF Agriculture and the Mechanic
Arcs nave, through the committee of the Board,
decided upon active operations, and design to
pc prepared to open the College for students
ia ia tne spring The committee have been az
the rarm, and devoted two days TO c,'rel ,
examination of the soil, crops fruit trees-S ela
location for the College Buildings; &c, So'
Messrs. HELLER, of Bangor, who mas aat ,u "
| two years experience in the manuiacSio ID
brick, averaging three millions per year, anu Io
Gould of RHewer who has been engaged III tiio
| same business, both regarded as gocu 80
| and skillful and successful IN t1e ais, p H.
| pounce the clay and sand found uPo. tne
nremises as equal if not superior TO any IN tne
| State for brick and the sand unequalled both
for MASTERING and brick. The facilities also for
the manufacture are highly favorable. Thus
| in the immediate vicinity OF the location for the
| College Buildings, the most important and
| costly materials can be furnished at compare
| lively small expense.
Hon. John h. Gilman, one of the committee,
| who has the care and management of the Farm,
| informs me that he has orders to prepare the
| yard for the manufacture of brick, and do all
that can be done this fall to facilitate the ear
hest possible commencement of the work next
| season.
he has orders also to procure and prepare
lumber. These, with other movements and
| the improvements already commenced and in
| contemplation, begin to look like doing some
thing. Some four hundred pear trees were SET
| out last Spring and few other trees. These
trees, and those previously upon the Farm
| the committee pronounced in a fiourishing con.
dltion, superior to anything they have seen II
the State. Mr.. Gilman understood Mr.. Good
| ale to say that he had nothing in his nursery
at Saco, SURPRISING it.
| Itwas exceedingly gratifying to find the com
mittee o highly satisfied with everything, and
now to be confirmed in the decision, that bet
ter location, all things considered, could not
have been selected in the State. Every kind
of produce and fruit congenial to Maine car
here be cultivated and matured as successfully
as in any other section. No better corn is rails
ed in New England than is raised on the Pc
nObscot, and in the town of OrOno. The same
can be said of apples, pears and plums Here
tofore, less attention has been given to these
products. But in the first half dozen years
the quantity and quality of fruit has been re
markably increased and improved.
A full meeting of all the Trustees is called
at the Farm on the 26th, and it is especially de
sired that the members from the western coun
ties may be present. and, if need be, become
better satisfied that there has not only beer
no mistake" in the location, but a grand sue
cess; and all that is now wanted is united
determined and strong effort on the part of al
the friends of this institution, and adequat,
funds to put it in operation, and the enterprise
will prove what its oriGnators contemplated
and its friends have prnmised-the pride, orna
ment and glory of Mama. an institution wher
the sons of our nohla farmers and mechanic
shall receive an education of which their pa
rents and guardians may well be proud, an,
point to Thorn and exclaim, g These are m,
| Jewels" N WILSON