Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-08-01
STATE COLLEGE MATTERS
and Changss Carried
Through Last Year

The Maine State College report for lss2
has Just been published 4 record is given
of the changes and improvements, which
are such As were contemplated when an
appropriation for college purposes was
ma,le at the last session of the Legislature.
The changes made have contributed TO the
securing of better conditions for the educa-
tional work which the college is seeking 10
do The equipment of the ply library
with about $1,000 worth of apparatus, is
destined To add largely to the value of in
struction in physics. President Fernald,
referring to the oreanizing of the library
says it has been completed Four new
eases have been supplied, and all the books
have been classified and arranged in accord
anca with what is known as the Dewey
system
Within the year the unbound volumes
have been bound together with a portion of
the pamphlets With accessions by gift,
by exchanges. by purchases and by binding
the nuIbtr of volumes in the college library
Is D. 80, and in the part of the library as
signed Ia the experiment station 500 making
thu, total number G,0i7 The presentation
hy J. G. Clark, Esq of the Blake hebarium
is referred 10 IN grateful terms. The Pres
DIDN'T SAYS it is source of no little satisfac-
ton to be able to state tina, the last dollar of
Indebtedness growing out of the destruction
of the herd in 1856 has been paid
through the provision made for canoeing
the debt by the Legislature From
the stock which has been placed upon the
farm there appears TO be- no good reason
why valuable and profitable herd may not
bc developed; herd large enough 10 con
sumo the greater part of the hay which the
farm produces. With stock restored more
thrifty methods Of farm practice can be
adopted than have been possible during the
past three years. With whatever land may
br needed assigned for experimental pur-
passes, there is no good reason why the
farm may not well fulfil its function as
an adjunct To the experiment station.
The extent and variety of experimentation
and research undertaken by the station are
such as could not have been ATTEMPTED under
Il less liberal proNi ion than that made by
thu natlonil government The work of
inSeStig CATION is of a two-fold character
First. it must address itself 10 problems in
the agriculture and horticulture of the State
as press for immediate solution snd the an
swering of the great number of practical
questions which farmers ask; second, the
station must address itself tn some of the
protounder problems of agricultural science.
which require long and careful research
In conclusion, tresideot Fernsli SAYS the
pirt generally manifested by the students
has been eommcnlahle One exception oc-
CURED near the close of the autumn term
which was given a notoriety greater than
the circumstances warranted.
Prof. Waller Balentine, professor of the
department of agriculture, states that the
appointment of veterinary professor
marks a step of progress in the development
of the agricultural course.
1he appropriation of $500 for the pr;d-
nee of stock has resulted in placing upon
the farm by the trustees of one Holstein
COW and one bull, one tive-year- Guern-
sey COW and heifer calf. two two-year-oli
Guernsey helfers which haze since dropped
heifer calves aud one vearlng Guernsey
heifer, two two-year-oll Maine state regis
tered Jerseys, four grade short horn cows
one two-year-old grade Holstein COW, one
Hulstein heifer and one COW of unknown
breeding With these animals for a nucleus
the farm will soon have herd of blooded
stock AMI he able to recover from the effect
of selling hay during the past fonr years.