THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



vada and Colorado. We learn that the terri-
torial officers of Arizona left Leavenworth
last week, and will go tGrough as speedily as
possible. They were escorted by several com-
panies of cavalry, and followed by an exten-
sive train.-New York .Eveixyg POg.



ED U CAT IONA L.



   The Agricultural Schools Of the Countfy,

AS SEEN BY THE EDITOR ON A RECENT TOUR OF
               OBSERVATION.

               NUMBER 111.

  From Havana by steamer across Lake Gen-
eva, the journey is brief and delightful. The
world can boast of no finer little lake, and
the country on either side is beautiful, most
of it highly improved.
  Some little time before reaching Ovid Land-
ing, the eye is attracted by what at first ap-
pears to be a cluster of tall forest trees on the
high lands beyond. A little nearer, and these
apparent trees are transformed by clearer
vision into what now are defined as chimneys
on the top of an imposing structure hitherto
concealed by timber nearer the lake. That
building and the beautifully sloping lands on
which it stands, are the visible representa-
tives of
TRE NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,

the object of this detour from our line of
travel. As long ago as 1844, Jadge Buel and
other leading friends of agricultural educa-
tion agitated the subject in the public jour-
nals and in the Legislature of the state.
Nothing was actually done, however, towards
the establishment of an agricultural college,
until 1853, when an act of incorporation was
passed, but without any provision for means
to carry the act into effect. But in 1856, an-
other act was passed authorizing a loan from
the Treasury of $40,000, without interest, for
twenty-one years, in aid of the enterprise;
provided an equal amount should be raised
by subscription; which condition was at an
early day fulfilled, the required amount being
chiefly subscribed by the citizens of Ovid and



was finished and the institution opened in
Iw80.
              THN LOCATION.
 A better locatiex than the present one could
hardly have been selected. Though not cen-
tral to the State, geographically, still ita ready
accessibility from all points by rail and
Steamboat, renders that circumstance of but
trifling importance. Seneca eounty lies in
the heart of a fine farming district, between
Seneca and Caypga lakes, sad the village of
Ovid, *hoae western suburbs are the eastern
boundary of the Collage Farm, is the elevated
centr. of the county, commanding a view of
portions of several countioa, and presenting
to the eye as magnificent a prospect as it has
ever been our good fortune to enjoy.

  From the village, the Farm, which until
lately embraced 700 acres, slopes gradually
some two miles and a half westward to the
border of the lake; the lower limit being
over 600 feet lower than the upper. The soil
is chiefly of a clayey character, though seve-
ral varieties are presented, rendering the
Farm on this account very desirable. The
soil rests upon shale rock, limestone and slate;
each of these cropping out at different places
on the premises. The Farm is well watered
by a living stream of sufficient magnitude to
furnish a good mill power, now in use, and
near the upper end there is a fine body of
timber.
            THE COLLEGE EDIFICE
stands upon a handsome swell about midway
of the Farm, which is, unhappily, bald of all
trees. When completed according to plan, it
will consist of a central portion with two
handsome towers, two wings with front lines
parallel to that of Centre, each 84k feet in
length, and beyond these two transverse
wings, each 128 feet deep and 58 on front lin e
-the whole, except the first named wings or
"curtains," five stories high. It is designed
that it shall be finished with all the improved
modern facilities for ventilating, warming
and lighting, and that it shall contain apart-
ments for not lese than 350 pupils.



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