THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



required in other colleges, are here pursued
from one to two years each.
  " The law requires each student to labor
three hours a day, and provides for payment
for this labor. The plans for labor, heretofore
existing, had been found to be such as to pre-
serve the ability to work, which years of se-
dentary life is apt to endanger, and they were
adopted by the Bcard.'
  Financially considered, the College is in a
prosperous and hopeful condition. Sale has
been made of some of the Swamp Lands do-
nated by the State, aLd which lie contiguous
to the farm of the College. The State appro-
priates, for the presez* .$10,000 per annum
for the improvement of the farm and the main-
tenance of the school, and provisions have
been made for the benefits derivable from the
Congressional grant of 244,000 acres of land.
as by the provisions of the Act approved July
2, 1862.
  The Faculty cf the College is believed to be
an able one, and the institution is gradually
gaining a higher place in the confidence of the
people.
  The number of students in attendance the
past year was 72-"' six more than during the
preceeding year and twenty-two more than in
18G0." The President states that the number
would have been much larger but for the en-
listment of scores of young men after they
had made application for admission.
  'We predict a career of great prosperity for
this institution when the war shall have ended
and the attention of the whole people is again
turned to the great Arts of Peace. Meantime
the farm and garden, which were begun in the
woods, and have required much labor to bring
them into a cultivable condition, will have
been so far improved as to render them more
attractive and valuable to the students who
may gather there for instruction in the best
methods of applying the sciences to these prac-
tical arts.
   In subsequent Nos. we shall give accounts
 of the colleges in New York, Indiana, and
 Pennsylvania.



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           [From the State Journal.]
         An Afterneon In Brooklyn.

 ED8. STATE JOURNAL:-To one who has nev-
Br before spent more than from sunrise to sun-
set in this great metropolis, one *eek, two
weeks, and then this third week, of continual
going out and sight-seeing, has been each day
a new delight. Besides the dear friend, the
hospitality of whose home we have enjoyed, it
is surprising to see how many acquaintances,
friends of of the old-time and new, one meets
with in this Babel of streets and bang. The
people of Madison have not been without a fair
representation, and more than one of us has
planned to send back to our friends, through
your paper, brief notes made by the way of our
daily adventures. And now, lest the beautiful
vision be drifted out of sight by the pageant of
to-day, let everything else go by while I give
you just a glimpse of yesterday afternoon.
  It was the anniversary of the Sabbath School
of Plymouth Church.-Last Sunday the usu-
ally over-flowing congregation of that church
had assembled to listen to a farewell address
from their pastor, who, on the coming Satur-
day, sails for Europe. The announcement of
the Sabbath School anniversary for Tuesday
afternoon had been remembered by all Brook-
lyn and a portion of New York, and we who
were there at the opening of the doors were
fortunate enough to get in; those of our party
whose watches were a little behind, with a
crowding, irritated, disappointed mass of peo-
ple stayed outside.
  The children of the church, to the number,
so the superintendent told me, of nine hundred,
occupied front seats in the gallery; those of
other schools, counting many hundreds more,
had seats nearest the desk below. Need ILtell
you that the children, one and all, girls and
boys, little and large, were in the regalia of
their best, that they came in good order, filing
into their places, at the several entrances, with
banners and song and flowers and the happiest
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