The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-07-11
For Presidential Electors :
THE UNIVERSITY.

Wisconsin has a University. Connected
with the University are Grounds, and to
these Grounds the members of the Edito-
rial Association and their wives, at the
Convention at Madison, were invited to
take ride. The Grounds are so laid out
as to afford one of the most delightful
rides to be found. From the University
Buildings to lake Mendoza, along the
shore Of the lake, a1d return to the Build,
ings by another street, furnishes more
natural beauty than is often found in the
same distance Nature has done much to
furnish beauty of hill, plain and Lakeland
art has done much to lay out and improve
the Grounds so ae to make natures beauty
available for enjoyment. And the peo-
pie, as we'll as the faculty and students of
the University, are beginning to appreci
ate the situation and the opportunity.
The Buildings of the University are
situated on slightly elevation, and are
mainly the University, the Female, or
rather Woman's College, three Dormi
tories, and Gymnasium. These are all
substantial buildings we'll designed for
their purposes. The Woman's College
for the construction of which the State
lately made an appropriation of $4,000,
was constructed for $4,000. This is an
exception to the general rule, that public
buildings are seldom or never constructed
for the money at first appropriated. And,
if the building is equal TO the design, it
entities the Regents to credit for economy
in the expenditure of public money. From
our limited knowledge we think the
building to be well designed, substantial
and ornamental, and it IS said by good
judges to be fully equal to the design and
the purposes for which it is intended.
The remaining $4,000 has been and is
being expended for musical instruments
and furniture for the College.
The University Farm, including the
frs4 40 acres on which the buildings stand,
contains $50 acres. It is bounded on the
west by lake Mendoza, securing to the
University all the advantages of that
beautiful lake The soil is equal to the
average around Madison. Only 60 acres
of the 260 have been brought under Gull
tivation. Some of these 60 acres was COW
cred with scrubs and shrubs and requir
ed much labor for its improvement. It is
now being cultivated as an experimental
farm. 1t is laid out in small lots of a
certain size and these lots are cultivated
under the directions of general Over.
seer. Some of the lots are cultivated by
one person only, and others by different
persons. Any of the students can take
lots and cultivate them, or work by the
hour if they prefer to do so. Some of the
students avail themselves of the oppor
tunity to work, and some of them are
working their way through the Universe
ty. An account is kept of the time every
student works and of the labor performed.
And there is full record kept of the Cul
tivation Of each small and separate lot of
land. This record embraces every thing
that is done, and the time, and way, and
circumstances under which it is done, in
the cultivation of every lot. 1t is the in
tention thus to cultivate and to record, so
that at any future time, by referring &c
the record, it can be seen what the cult.
walton has been of every lot of the expert
mental farm. Whether the whole farm
when brought under improvement, viii
be cultivated as an experimental farm, Of
part of it, cultivated as a model farm
we are not infor med, and perhaps it i
not yet determined.