The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-05

book OF 623 pages, over sixty of which
are devoted to a detailed exhibit of the
receipts and expenditures of the Aor;-
cultural College for the year, and a com
plete inventory OF its real and personal
property. The Lansing Republican
summarizes the subjects treated of in
the report, as follows: "The report of
the faculty showed the total number of
students to be 1876, or an increase of 10
over the previous year. The average
ages of the pupils are as follows: Res
ldent graduates, 23t years; Seniors.
II o-9; Juniors, 20 5-6 Sophomore,
-; Freshmen, II 1t; specials, 20.
There were 156 from this State, and 10
from other States. One of the resident
graduates, two of the specials and
two OF the Freshmen class were ladies.
and several application for admission by
ladies We're rejected for want of rooms.
The department reports are generally
encouraging, showing marked improve
ments in each, and the statements of la
Dor performed by students show con-
clusively that there is no relaxation in
this branch of discipline and that it is
well received. This is especially notice.
able in the department of botany and
horticulture. Very full and interesting
reports OF experiments with roots.
grains. grasses, ETC., are given, which
cannot fail to furnish valuable informa-
ton to agriculturists. In fact there is
scarcely page in the entire report from
which the intelligent farmer might not
CLEAN new and valuable hints in his pro-
fession. During the winter of
1919
Quoted by the faculty and pro-
fessors of the college at Greenville, Tray
erse City, Ypsilanti, Hillsdale, Owosso and
Lansing. These institutes generally oc-
cupied about two days each, and were
mostly well attended, lively interest in
the subjects discussed being manifested.
The proceedings at each of these insti-
tutes are given in full, and contain a
large number of essays and papers on diff
ferent subjects, interesting to all read
ers, but more especially so to farmers.
Some OF these papers, as published, are
illustrated by cuts. Among the most
valuable of them is one on electrical con-
duction, by Prof. r. G. Kedzie, in which
that gentleman, as we think, successful
ly refutes the idea that the conduction
of electricity of high tension is confined
exclusively to the surface of the conduc-
tor. A paper on trichina spiralis, or
pork worm, by Prof Cook, will well re-
pay perusal by any person, and the
same may be said of many others which
we have not space to particularize. The
report, in addition to the matters above
referred to, contains full list of speci-
mems of forest productions OF Michigan
sent to the Centennial Exhibition by the
Agricultural College, consisting of about
1900 specimens; full proceedings of
the State Agricultural Society for the
year 1876, including premium list, etc.,
and reports from various county societies
in the State, together with their officers.
Also, report of the proceedings of the
Michigan State Association of Agricult-
ure, held at Jackson, Dec. IA, 1876. A
complete register of meteorological OBJ
servations for 1876, taken by Prof Ked-
zie, is appended to the volume. From
this register it appears that the highest
temperature of the year was SO degrees.
The lowest temperature for the year was
Dec. 10, when the mercury sunk to 10
degrees below zero. The range of tenn
perature for the year was lis degrees"