Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-03
The Farmers College.
REPoRT OF GOV. PATTIsoS AND sUPERISrEN
DENT HIGBEE ON ITS CONDITION
AND WANTS.


HARRIsBuRG, Pa March Ex-Governor
Psttison, State Superintendent Hisbee
and Secretary of the Commonwealth h
Stenger, visited the State Agricultural
College at Bellefonte yesterday to at.
tend r e1ial meeting Of the Bosrl OF
Trustees, which was held last night.
The object of the special meeting was to
consider the financial condition of the
institution aud the following report
signed by Gov. Pattison and Superln.
tendent Higbee was presented
ain making the following report the
undersigned have no disposition to re.
feet upon the past management Of the
State College or to criticise the ability
aud fidelity of its present body of
teachers. We have only taken into
consideration its present financial
condition and its relation to The large
agricultural interests of the Common.
wealth. The college has an annual in
come of $4,000, three farms, body OF
students numbering from 1870 to $50, a
large bu lding requiring q considerable
amount to put it in repair and proper
working order, 3 faculty con.istirg OF
sixteen teachers and g current debt
reported as amounting to some as.
900.
"The farms are widely separated, one
in the eastern, another in the western
and another in the ceutral part OF the
State. The western farm is in no senses
a model farm, and is in no condition to
throw upon the market in Its present
state. 1t is an injury rather than a
benefit to the college. 1t ia an adver.
tisement against scientific farming and
not an illustration of its benefit. The
eastern farm is in better condition, but
is far from being what q model farm
should be. The central farm, in
immediate connection with the college,
is all that the friends %. I. agricultural
science ough. to require. To hasten
the liquidation OF the debt to put the
buildings in proper working order, to
supervise the farms go far removed
from the College itself, that, as model
farms, they may properly exhibit to the
people the rich results of modern science
applied TO agriculture and TO convey
the whole work Of the College into
closer sympathy with the farming and
industrial community of the State.
1--WE respectfully sumit to the Board
the following plan, which. in our judg.
ment, will best subserve the ends above
mentioned without detracting from the
present professional thoroughness of
the Institutions Faculty:
Eirst-Prssidsnt tdutiss prsseut) go
s@eood-Lsctursr on Agriculture and superia-
tsaaeat of the FARMS 1900
superintendent of Experimental sta
500
Toarth-Profssssr Of Chemistry 100
Fifth-Profesaof Of Botany sd Hortcul.
80
sixtb-Profssaof Of Mathematics and Civil
EngineeFtng - 1
seTesth-Professor u Modern Languages
(Rrencb German aud Engiishl ............... ! 10
Eighth-Professor u Geology and ZOOLOGY
and Head Of Preparatory Depaftueas.....,.. 30
klnth--PTofessof Of Veterinary Science and
Physiology and Assistant in Preparatory
Department. 20
Tsuth--Professor Of Military Science and
Tactics
EIsveath-Assissant of Military Science and
hfS
TEelfth-Assist4nt of Military Science and
Tactics Gd
Total cost Of teaching force .............. tt5 90
"This plan removes from the work oi
the College the Latin and Greek Ian
guages, except 50 far as the former maj
be introduced in the study Of French
II adds, as We think. to the efficiency
Of agricultural studies by supplying I
lecturer on scientific farming, who shal
at the same time act a. respons ibl
Cruar;utandfnf nf the f.rnna and ale,