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OFFICERS. 
 
 President. 
 
 M. R. PATRICK. 
 
 N. Y. Ag. College, Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y. 
 
 Chairman Hoard of TVustees. 
 Hon. JOHN A. KING, Jamaica, L. I. 
 
 Secretary Board of Trustees. 
 BENJ. P. JOHNSON, Albany. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 ARAD JOY, Ovid. 
 
 Counsel to the Board. 
 Hon. JOHN E. SEELEY, Ovid. 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 SAMUEL CHEEVER. 
 HENRY WAGER. 
 ALEXANDER THOMPSON 
 ARAD JOY. 
 JAMES 0. SHELDON. 
 
 Finance Committee. 
 HENRY WAGER. 
 J. B. WILLIAMS. 
 A. A. POST. 
 
 Building Committee. 
 HENRY WAGER. 
 ALEXANDER THOMPSON. 
 BENJ. N. HUNTINGTON. 
 
 Farm Committee. 
 HENRY WAGER. 
 ALEXANDER THOMPSON. 
 JAMES 0. SHELDON. 
 
 /Jrchitect. 
 S. E IIKWKS, Esq., 
 
Prof2Ssor of Agricultural Chemistry, Botany, Sfc, 
 Prof. WILLIAM H. BREWER. 
 
 Trustees. 
 IIox. JOHN A. KING, Jamaica. 
 
 " WILLIAM KELLY, Rliinebcck. 
 
 " HENRY WAGER, Western. 
 
 " B. P. JOHNSON, Albany. 
 
 " WILLIAM BUELL, Rochester. 
 JOEL W. BACOX, Esq., Waterloo. 
 Hon. ABRAHAM A. POST, Flint Creek. 
 
 " ADDISON GARDINER, Rochester. 
 
 " J. B. WILLIAMS, Ithaca. 
 ALEXANDER THOMPSON, M. D., Aurora. 
 E. P. PRENTICE, Esq., Albany. 
 Maj. M. R. PATRICK, Ovid. 
 Hon. SAMUEL CIIEEVER, Waterford. 
 AR.AD JOY, Esq., Ovid. 
 RUFUS K. DELAFIELD Esq., New York. 
 JAMES 0. SHELDON, Esq., Geneva. 
 Hon. BENJ. N. HUNTINGTON, Rome. 
 
AN ACT 
 
 To Incorporate tlie New York State Agricul- 
 tural College. 
 
 Passed April 15, 1853. 
 The Penph of the State of Neio York, represented in Senate and 
 
 Assembly, do enact as folloics : 
 
 Skction 1. John Dclufield, Henr}' Wager, B. P. Johnson, Wil- 
 liam Kelly, John A. King, N. B. Kidder, Joel W. Bacon, William 
 Buell, Tallmadge Dclafield, Robert J. Swan, and such other persons 
 as shall or may be associated with them for that purpose, are hereby 
 constituted and created a body politic and corporate, by the name, 
 style and description of the " Xkw York State Agricultural 
 College," and the said corporation shall have and enjoy all the 
 corporate rights and privileges enjoyed by any incoj'poratcd college 
 in the State of New York, and shall be subject to the provisions 
 and exercise the powers and duties contained and set forth in tho 
 second article of the fifteenth chapter, title one, of the Revised 
 Statutes. 
 
 ^ 2. The farm and grounds, belonging and attached to the said 
 College, shall consist of not less than three hundred acres. 
 
 '^ 3. The plan of instruction shall embrace the following branches 
 of knowledge : Practical and scientific agriculture ; chemistry and 
 its manipulations, so far as it may be usefully connected with agri- 
 culture ; mathematics and mechanics ; surveying and engineering ; 
 geology and botany; tlic practical management of the farm, of tho 
 dairy, and of the various kinds of live stock ; also such other 
 branches of knowledge as may lie deemed u«eful and proper. 
 
 9 4. The persons named in tlie first section of this act shall bo 
 and form tho iirst Board of Trustees. 
 
 k 5. Tliis act shall take efl'oct immediately. 
 
AlSr ACT 
 
 To amend an act entitled "An act to Incorpo- 
 rate the New York State Agricultural Col- 
 lege," passed April 15, 1853. 
 
 Passed February 5, 1857. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate aiod. 
 Assembly, do enact as jollows : 
 
 Section 1. The Trustees of the New York State Agricultural 
 College are hereby authorized to increase the number of Trustees of 
 said College from time to time, if they shall elect so to do, provided 
 that the whole number of Trustees shall at no time exceed twenty- 
 four. 
 
 No such increase shall be valid unless a resolution to that eflfect 
 be passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees, at least 
 thirty days prior to the time of making such increase, nor unless 
 the Secretary or other authorized oiEcer of the said Board shall give 
 notice in writing to each Trustee, in the usual manner, of siich pro- 
 posed increase, nor unless a majority of all the Trustees then in 
 ofl&ce shall vote in favor of such increase. 
 
 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COLLEG-E. 
 
 Soon after the passage of the act of incorporation, Mr. John 
 Dclafield, of Seneca county, who had devoted much time and efficient 
 service in procuring the act of incorporation, and much and most 
 valuable service in the cause of agriculture in the State, was unani- 
 mously elected President of the College. He, with the aid of the 
 other Trustees, made considerable progress in obtaining subscriptions 
 to the stock, when in the fall of 1853 he suddenly died. His death, 
 a severe loss to the agricultural interests of the State, was most 
 severely felt by his associate Trustees, and for a time almost 
 paralyzed their exertions. 
 
 In 1855, the people of Ovid, in the county of Mr. Delafield's 
 residence, made an effort to obtain subscriptions to the stock for the 
 College, with the expectation that, if successful, the Trustees, in 
 locating the institution, would properly appreciate their efforts. A 
 subscription was obtained, mostly in that vicinity, to the amount, 
 together with that obtained by Mr. Dclafield and his friends, of 
 more than forty thousand dollars, for a College to be located at 
 Ovid. They, through the agency of the Rev. Mr. Brown, Principal 
 of the Academy at Ovid, and with the aid of the friends of the 
 enterprise from different parts of the State, prociired the passage of 
 the act of 1st March, 1856, the first section of which provides that 
 when the Trustees shall certify to the Comptroller that they have 
 located said College in the county of Seneca, and have purchased 
 a suitable sita for it, with three hundred acres of land, and have 
 obtained vali^ subscriptions to the stock to the amount of forty 
 thousand dollars, which is paid or secured to be paid to the satis- 
 faction of the Comptroller, and shall mortgage the land to the State, 
 that the Comptroller sha41 loan to the Trustees the sum of forty 
 thousand dollars for twenty-one years, without interest, out of the 
 income of the United States Deposit Fund, not otherwise appro- 
 priated, "to aid in the payment for lands so purchased, and in 
 constructing suitable buildings thereon for the uses and purposes 
 
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 of said College," &c. This act was amended in 1857, and pro- 
 vision made for advancing the money from the Treasury generally, 
 the Deposit Fund failing to supply the amount. 
 
 Although the establishment of such an institution for the educa- 
 tion of the farmer and others had long been determined upon by the 
 friends of agriculture in the State, this liberal and timely subscrip- 
 tion to the stock, at Ovid, has enabled the Trustees to bring it into 
 being at an earlier period than could probably otherwise have been 
 done. In view of all the premises, they have located it in the town 
 of Ovid, on the east side of Seneca Lake, and have purchased, in 
 all, about seven hundred acres of land for its purposes. 
 
 The farm is upon the western slope of the county, bounded west 
 by the Seneca Lake, and persons may leave Albany or Buffalo in the 
 morning, and, by the way of Geneva, reach the farm the same day ; 
 or New York or Buffalo in the afternoon, and, by the New York and 
 Erie road and the head of the Lake, reach the farm the following 
 morning. The spot selected for the College is one commanding a 
 view of great beauty and grandeur, taking in the town of Geneva 
 and more than twenty miles of the Lake, and the whole eastern 
 slope of the county of Yates and part of Ontario. Still, the spot 
 is retired, and the Trustees think none the less desirable, for that 
 cause, for the purposes intended. It is easy of access from any part 
 of the State. 
 
 All persons will concede that if an Agricultural College has 
 attached to it a farm, either for purposes of experiment, illustration 
 or means of employment to students, it is of the highest importance 
 that it should possess the greatest variety of soil possible. The 
 Trustees of the New York State Agriculturiil College felt the vital 
 importance of this matter, and only made the selection they did 
 after much deliberation. Had they selected a farm having no 
 variety of soil, however fertile it might have been, or how complete 
 all its other qualifications were, the general feeling would be that it 
 was unfit for its purpose, or at least ill adapted to it. An article on 
 the general features of the Botany of this farm, by Prof. Wm. H. 
 Brewer, indicates the varieties of its soil and its adaptation to the 
 
 purposes for which it is designed. 
 
 The farm is about two and a half miles long, and extends east 
 from the shore of Seneca Lake, the eastern end lying on the ridge 
 between the Lakes, and has an elevation of about 550 feet greater 
 •than the western, the slope being gradual and the exposure to the 
 
west. A small stream, having its sources mostly beyond the farm, 
 runs through it to the Lake. Tt is bordered in some places by dry 
 grain land, in others by a narrow swale, while nearer the Lake it 
 sinks into a deep rocky ravine. The immediate banks of the Seneca 
 Lake form low bluffs, from the top of which the land rises gradually 
 to the extreme eastern end of the farm at Ovid village. 
 
 The rock underlying the soil at the western end of the farm, and 
 which crops out at the Lake shore and in the ravine, is a soft shale, 
 the '^Moscow shales''^ (of Prof. Hall, in his reports on the Grcology 
 of New York), belonging to the upper part of the Hamilton group.^' 
 On this lies the " Tully limestone,'''' an impure limestone, having a 
 thickness on the farm of about eleven feet, half of which is suffici- 
 ently compact for building purposes, and is burned for lime, which 
 Ls being used in the construction of the College buildings. 
 
 Above this lies the " Genesee slate,'''' which underlies the upper 
 part of the farm, or at least two-thirds of the land. This last is a 
 slaty sandstone, very variable in both its chemical and physical 
 characters, — varying from shale and slate to slaty sandstone, and 
 even compact sandstone, thin strata of which are compact enough 
 for building purposes, and indeed on the extreme upper part of the 
 farm it has been obtained for this use. 
 
 The rock, in places, has each of these characters, and varies by 
 all possible mixtures and proportions of these; hence, by its decom- 
 position, forms some of the most fertile lands of the State. No 
 better proof of this is needed than the fact that a large part of what 
 is known as the ^'■Genesee comitry" of central and western New 
 York, a region of world-wide renown for its fertility, lies on the 
 same geological formation, having precisely the same physical and 
 chemical characters. 
 
 These varied characters of the underlying rocks, combined with 
 other causes, give great diversity to the soil ; there arc conscqueutly 
 on the farm very dry soil, rather wet soil, thin soil lying near the 
 rock, deep and rich soil, soil poor in organic matter and soil black 
 with organic matter, sandy loam, clay loam, stiff clay, brick clay, 
 hard gravel, &c., the details of which can only be made intelligible 
 by a map. 
 
 COLLEGE BUILDINGS. 
 
 The College buildings to be erected, will, when completed, accom- 
 modate three hundred and fifty students. That portion of the build- 
 ing now being erected, and which will be fiuisbcd, it is expected, 
 
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 by early summer, consists of two wings, the one 58 by 128, the other 
 60 by 84A — four stories — calculated to accommodate 150 students. 
 The buildings will be supplied with every needed convenience for 
 the students. 
 
 OUTLINE OF COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 The chief object of the institution is to provide a system of 
 instruction essential and practically useful to the Agricultural inte- 
 rests of the State ; to combine theory with practice ; to aiford whole- 
 some discipline to the mind, accumulation of knowledge, and habits 
 of labor and industry. 
 
 The course of instruction shall continue for three consecutive 
 years, at the expiration of which, and upon the recommendation of 
 the President and professors of the said College, the trustees may 
 confer a degree or diploma, authorized by the Revised Statutes of 
 the State, on all students who have completed the full course of 
 three years, and received the recommendation above named. 
 
 TERMS. 
 
 There shall be two terms of study annually, the Summer and 
 Winter term. The Summer term, from April 15th to November 1st. 
 The Winter term, from December 1st to March 1st. 
 
 ADMISSION. 
 
 Each candidate for admission to the College must be able to read 
 and write the English language well, be well acquainted with its 
 grammar and higher arithmetic. 
 
 (An acquaintance with the branches of science taught at the 
 academies and colleges of our country will prove a great advantage 
 to the student on entering the Agricultural College.) 
 
 No student shall be admitted under sixteen years of age, and each 
 student must pass a satisfactory examination, and give evidence 
 that his moral character is in like manner satisfactory. 
 
 Each student on his admission into the College shall subscribe an 
 engagement in the following form : 
 
 " I (A. B.), now aged years and months, do hereby 
 
 promise and agree, with the consent of my parent or proper guar- 
 dian, that I will faithfully observe and conform to all the rules, 
 regulations and orders of the New York State Agricultural College. 
 
 " Witness my signature, this day of ,18. . . 
 
 [" Signature of the student.] 
 
 " Witness, 
 
 [" The parent or guardian."] 
 
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 CHARGES. 
 
 The charge for instruction, with board and lodgings, lights and 
 fuel, will be two hundred dollars per annum, one-half of which sum 
 must be paid semi-annually in advance. 
 
 DISCIPLINE. 
 
 In the administration and management of the College and farm, 
 order and system should prevail, and as obedience and subordination 
 are essential to the welfare and prosperity of the College, and to 
 the comfort of all connected with the Institution, the students, and 
 every person employed by the corporation, will be required to obey 
 the President, professors and teachers or other officers. Any 
 refractory or disrespectful conduct will be punished according to 
 the degree of the offence. 
 
 GENERAL COURSE OF STUDIES. 
 
 FIRST YEAR. SU:\X3IER TERM. 
 
 English language. Arithmetic reviewed and completed, commence- 
 ment of Algebra, and principles of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, 
 and Botany. 
 
 (English language and these elementary studies will be carried 
 on during the term, with mathematics. Although this is not 
 in(e7ided to be a manual labor school, still, the students will be 
 required to spend such time in the field as may be necessary to apply 
 the Theory to the Practice of Husbandry. Therefore — 
 
 The Freshman during this term will be instructed in plowing, 
 spading, care of hoed crops, gathering hay and grain crops, manage- 
 ment of the dairy, &c. 
 
 WINTER TERM. 
 
 Algebra completed. Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology and Botany 
 continued ; Geometry, Drawing commenced. 
 
 (The Freshman class during this term, to be instructed in making 
 and preserving manures, care and feeding of store animals, root and 
 stock grafting, taking and preserving scions, &c.) 
 
 SECOND YEAR. — SUMMER TERM. 
 
 Trigonometry, Analytical Geometry, Surveying, Constructiun of 
 Roads, &c.. Agricultural Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology and 
 Botany continued, Outlines of Comparative Anatomy, Vegetable 
 Physiology, and Drawing. 
 
 (Practical Instruction to the Juniors — in sowing grain, planting, 
 gardening, setting trees and shrubs, uiakiug fences and walls, drain- 
 
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 ing and irrigation, training, pruning, grafting and budding, handling 
 teams, loading wagons and carts, collecting specimens of plants and 
 minerals, &c.) 
 
 "WINTER TERM. 
 
 Descriptive Geometry, Engineering, Carpentry, Bridges, &c., 
 Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Agricultural Chemistry, 
 Mineralogy, Geology and Botany reviewed. Human Physiology, 
 iA-(f^t*-yt^Gi^!si.o^ and Comparative Anatomy continued. Principles of Veteri- 
 ^ nary practice, Book-keeping, Drawing, Farm Implements, Ma- 
 chinery, Architecture, &c. 
 
 (Practical instruction in fattening, breeding, and rearing stock, 
 training steers, handling cattle, training colts to saddle, harness or 
 draught, preparing timber for fences, posts, &c.) 
 
 THIRD YEAR. SUjNIMER TERM. 
 
 History of Literature, General and Agricultural ; Physical Geog- 
 raphy, &c.. Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Rhetoric and Logic, 
 Constitution of the United States and of the State of New- York ; 
 Laws of New York relating to Contracts, Highways, Fences, &c.; 
 Book-keeping applied to the Farm ; Entomology, Ornithology, 
 Accoustics and Optics. 
 
 (The Senior class to make up Topographical maps, from their own 
 and other surveys, with reference to draining, irrigation, and land- 
 scape gardening ; examine and collect botanical, mineralogical, 
 anatomical, and entomological specimens for winter analysis, Essays, 
 Lectures, &c.) 
 
 AVINTER TERM. 
 
 Astronomy, Electricity, Magnetism, Meteorology, Intellectual 
 and Moral Philosophy, (including evidences of Christianity and 
 Natural and Revealed Keligion,) Rhetoric and Logic continued. 
 Veterinary Practice ; Drawing of Animals, Landscape, Composite, 
 &c. 
 
 (The Senior Class to continue experiments in the Chemical Labora- 
 tory and prepare essays on any subject that may be designated by 
 the Faculty. They also will take charge of all experiments in fat- 
 tening and feeding Stock, &c.) 
 
 THE FARM. 
 
 It is intended to divide the Farm into two divisions — one, to be 
 
 the special sphere of the Jimiors; the other, of the Freshman Class. 
 
 It is intended that reduced maps shall be struck off from the Tope- 
 
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 graphical map of the farm, of which each Student shall have one, 
 and be required to keep a record of his labors on his oiun half — 
 cost, productions, value, and all the data for making a complete 
 report at the close of the year. In this way each Student becomes 
 thoroughly acquainted with the character of every portion of the 
 farm, before entering the Senior Class. 
 
 During the last term of the graduating class, they will be requir- 
 ed to prepare from their maps and field notes, above mentioned, 
 plans for laying out the grounds — having reference to aspect, soil, 
 location, &c., with accompanying essays upon the cultivation and 
 management of the whole farm, not only with an eye to pecuniai-y 
 proHt, but to rural beauty and effect of landscape. 
 
 STUDENTS FOR LIMITED PERIODS. ' 
 
 It is probable that many young men may desire to attend the /f 
 institution for limited periods, to avail themselves of the pj:*c*iCT»& )h^i>v/i'fu 
 
 afforded them for instruction in agricultural science ; and such stu- 
 dents will be allowed to fall in with the regular classes in recitation 
 and instruction in the studies to which they wish to apply them- 
 selves. To organize a "special course" for irregular students, or 
 for any other, indeed, would require an exti'a force of Professors ; 
 ■Pl/iiTtu^ i\i.Q " regular y of Professors on the " College course " being quite 
 as much as can be attended to successfully. 
 
 
 The President and Professors of the College will, as they may 
 deem it important for the benefit of the Institution and the Students, 
 suggest modifications of the course of studies, and submit the same 
 to the Trustees, that the instruction may in all respects be such as 
 to accomplish in the most thorough manner the results for which 
 this Institution was founded. 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 First. The government and management of the College shall bo 
 under the direction of and control of the President of the College, 
 who shall be responsible to the Trustees for the general management 
 and well-being of every department ; all matters of discipline and 
 arrangement shall be under the control of the President, and all 
 professors, teachers, officers, pupils and other persons employed shall 
 be under his supervision and direction. 
 
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 Seco7id. Professors shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees 
 to fill such departments as the Trustees may deem expedient. The 
 Professors shall, in conjunction with the President, superintend 
 vigilantly the moral conduct, industry and progress of each student, 
 and other persons employed in the College or on the farm. The 
 Professors shall, as often as may be required by the President, 
 report to him the condition of their respective classes, in such form 
 as he may from time to time direct. 
 
 Third. A Chairman and Secretary shall be elected annually to 
 perform such duties as the act of incorporation or the action of the 
 Board may require. 
 
 Fourth. A Treasurer shall be elected by the Trustees. It shall 
 be the duty of the Treasurer to hold and carefully preserve all bills, 
 notes, bonds and mortgages, or other evidences of debt, or obliga- 
 tions or securities for personal or real estate, belonging to or held 
 by the College ; he shall receive and deposit in bank all moneys 
 received from any source for account of the College. He shall pay 
 all drafts or orders on him, made by the Chairman of the Finance 
 Committee, which drafts shall always be drawn payable to the order 
 of the said Treasurer, and be specially endorsed to the party entitled 
 to receive the amount expressed in such draft or order ; he shall 
 prepare, and present to the President on the first day of every month, 
 a full and detailed statement of all moneys received and paid by 
 him for or on account of the New York State Agricultural College, 
 and exhibiting the true balance of cash on the said last day of each 
 month. 
 
 Fijth. A Finance Committee, consisting of three members, shall 
 be annually elected by the Board, whose duty it shall be to audit all 
 accounts against the College, and to invest upon approved securities 
 any surplus money belonging to the institution, and generally to 
 supervise its finances. 
 
 Sixth. On or before the tenth day of January, in each year, a 
 report shall be prepared by the Trustees, stating their proceedings, 
 operations and expenditures, and including the last day of December 
 then passed ; the management of the farm ; progress of the students ; 
 also setting forth suggestions for the improvement of the institution, 
 if necessary. 
 
 Seventh. In ease the number of applicants for admission of scholars 
 to the institution shall be greater than can be received, a preference 
 shall ba given to the application of those who have subscribed to 
 
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 the funds of the College, provided due notice thereof be given to 
 the President. 
 
 The Trustees feel, in submitting to the public the outline of the 
 course of instruction and management of the College, that a great 
 responsibility rests upon them. The subject of an institution for 
 the instruction of the sons of farmers and mechanics, and others, in 
 the great work before them, is as yet in a great measure untried in 
 this country ; though, as far as the institutions now in progress 
 report, there is every reason for encouragement. Upon the manner 
 in which this institution, as well as others to be put in operation, 
 shall be conducted, much depends. That an institution ma}^ be so 
 conducted as to be the means of doing great good, and of securing 
 the co-operation and cordial support of the farmers and mechanics 
 of our State, we have great confidence. We shall have to meet the 
 ardent expectation of many who will expect that a single year's 
 operation will show great practical results ; and others will expect, 
 it may be, that experiments of the most important character will be 
 exemplified at once, on the institution being put in operation. To 
 such we would say, the work connected wit<li an agricultural institu- 
 tion must, of necessity, require time to develop all that can be done 
 for the proper instruction of the students, and for the satisfactory 
 development of facts, which are to be ascertained from long continued 
 and well conducted investigations and experiments ; and while we 
 feel assured that a single year of instruction will be most valuable 
 to every industrious and thorough pupil, yet we cannot disguise the 
 fact that a series of years must be required to fully develop the 
 inestimable value of an institution like this. 
 
 The Trustees believe that the course of studies, a general outline 
 of which is given, will be thorough and practical, so that every 
 student shall be enabled properly to understand the great principles 
 connected with agriculture in its every department, and how, practi- 
 cally, to apply them in the management of the farm. It shall bo 
 their aim to select, as instructors, those who are competent to give 
 such instruction, so that no portion of the work necessary to be 
 understood shall be overlooked, and all wlio pursue a thorough 
 course of study shall be able to carry out all the principles and 
 practices deemed necessary and important for the farmer. 
 
 To gentlemen interested in advancing the great interests of our 
 country, as well as to the farmers and mechanics of tl'.e State, the 
 Trustees look with confidence for the support of the institution, and 
 
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 trust they will see the importance of sustaining the institution by 
 their contributions to its funds, as well as by sending to its halls 
 their sons to be educated in a manner which shall not only increase 
 their usefulness, but place them in a position equal to the educated 
 men of other pursuits. 
 
 The President of the College, as well as the Trustees and such 
 Agents as may be employed, will present to the public the subject 
 of funds. The Trustees appeal to all Professions to advance the 
 only institution in our State which is solely designed for the purpose 
 of furnishing an education suited to the wants of the great majority 
 of our young men. It is believed that the great interests of practi- 
 cal education can in no other institution be more fully promoted 
 than in this. 
 
 The Trustees will be pleased to receive from the various Agricul- 
 tural Associations in our country their Transactions for the Library 
 of the institution, and from others such works as may be useful to 
 the institution. 
 
 Students, contemplating joining the institution, will be furnished 
 with every necessary information by applying, personally or by 
 letter, to M. K. Patrick, President of the College, Ovid, Seneca 
 county, N. Y. 
 
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