Visitors, by members of the last graduating class, are thought likely to be of interest, both on account of their subject-matter and as specimens of the work done by our students, and are appended to this report.

THE NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

EXPERIMENT STATION.

By the act of Congress of March 2d, 1887, a law was passed entitled "An act to establish Agricultural Experiment Stations in connection with the Colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July 2d, 1862, and of the acts supplementary thereto." This act is commonly known as the "Hatch Act," from the active interest taken in its passage by Hon. Wm. H. Hatch, M.C., of Missouri. It authorizes the appropriation of $15,000 annually for the support of Agricultural Experiment Stations in connection with the colleges which were established in the several States "for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," by the Congressional act of July 2d, 1862.

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The Legislature of New Jersey, by its acts of March 16th, 1887, and of March 5th, 1888, designated the Trustees of Rutgers College as the parties to whom all moneys appropriated by Congress under said acts of Congress or supplements thereto shall be paid for the purposes mentioned in said acts of Congress." The department of Rutgers College known as Rutgers Scientific School is, by law, the State Agricultural College. The Agricultural Experiment Station is established in connection with it.

By the co-operation of the State Experiment Station, a large and well-fitted laboratory has been erected, and investigations are in progress upon the insect enemies of plants, upon the food products of our fresh and salt waters, and their improvement, upon the diseases of plants, and the application of science to the growth of agricultural and horticultural products, and upon the food consumption and the value of the products of the best breeds of dairy cattle.

While the main business of such a Station is in searching after new truths, and arranging them for practical and economic use, the proper location for it is in connection with an institution of learning. Almost all our investigators are teachers. The investigation and diffusion of knowledge necessarily go hand in hand; and the example of men devoted to the searching for useful truths is stimulating to those who

are yet in their preparatory studies, and are aspiring to fill well their places in life.

It is from those now preparing that our future investigators must come, and it is important that they should have those who are now in the field of work directly before them. In this respect it is believed the location of the Station at the College will be most salutary in its influence.

EXTENSION DEPARTMENT.

The work of the Extension Department has been growing rapidly and steadily since its inception. During the last year the attendance at the various courses exceeded 1,300, and more than 600 were enrolled in the accompanying classes. The work is conducted in strict accordance with the methods of "University Extension." A course of lecture studies consists of the following elements :

(a) A series of lectures.

(b) A printed syllabus.

(c) A class-hour, or hour of conference following each lecture.

(d) Written exercises by members of the class.

(e) An examination open to those who have taken the whole course. (ƒ) Certificates issued to successful students.

Every part of this work is voluntary. Many simply attend the lectures and do not enroll them selves as students, but all are encouraged to take the full course, since a far better knowledge of the subject can thus be obtained. All courses consist of twelve lectures-studies unless otherwise specified. For the season of 1893-94 the following courses are offered, to which additions will be made later:

SOILS AND CROPS, (6).

Agriculture.

By Professor Edward B. Voorhees, A.M.

This series of lectures will include, under soils, a discussion of the origin, formation and distribution of soils, their chemical composition, physical properties, relations to temperature, and soil-water, exhaustion, methods of improvement, tillage and drainage; and under crops, a discussion of the origin, habits of growth, composition, characteristics, methods of rotation, cultivation, management and uses of the leading farm, orchard and garden crops.

THE FOOD OF PLANTS, (6).

By Professor Edward B. Voorhees, A.M.

In these lectures will be discussed the constituents of plants, their sources and functions; farmyard and green manures, waste products and their composition, properties and uses of concentrated or artificial manures, the sources, composition and uses of phosphatic, nitrogenous and potassic compounds; methods of manufacture of prepared fertilizers. Considerable attention will also be given to economical methods of buying manures, the preparation of formulas and the methods of application and use for the various crops.

ANIMAL NUTRITION, (6).

By Professor Edward B. Voorhees, A.M.

In these lectures the principles of nutrition will be discussed with particular reference to the formation of the various animal products. This will include a study of the composition of the animal body and its relation to food, the composition of fodders and feeds, their digestibility and proper use for the various animals, the relative value of natural and artificial grasses, the formation and improvement of permanent pastures, the buying of feeds and the preparation of rations, and the manurial value of feeds. The principles of breeding and the importance of pure breeds of domestic animals, and their relations to improved farming; breeds for the dairy, dairy management, the composition of milk and of the various dairy products will also receive attention.

HOW CROPS GROW, (6).

By Professor Byron D. Halsted, Sc.D.

A course of lectures upon the structure and uses of the various organs of vegetation, together with a consideration of some of the more serious enemies to cultivated plants and methods of overcoming them; weeds, their habits, seeding capacity and methods of treatment; dodders, and other parasites, rusts, mildews, smuts, blights, etc.; spraying trees and herbs with fungicides. These lectures are illustrated with the lantern and by means of numerous wall-charts, maps and the specimens themselves.

ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, (6).

By Professor John B. Smith, Sc.D.

In this course only so much anatomy and physiology of insects will be given as to make intelligible the philosophy of the application of insecticides; transformation and reproduction of insects; injurious insects, insecticides; time of application; when remedial and when preventive; formulas; fertilizers as insecticides. These lectures will be illustrated by models and lantern slides.

APPLICATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS, (6).

By Professor F. C. Van Dyck, Ph.D.

Introductory lecture on matter, force, work, energy, power; the mechanical powers, levers, pulleys, wheel and axle, inclined plane and screw; principles of water-supply, water-power, windmills, etc.; heating and ventilation; the steam engine and its applications; principles of electricity as applied to lightning protection, alarms and small power.

CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, BRIDGES AND DRAINS, (6).

By Professor A. A. Titsworth, M.S., C.E.

Telford, Macadam and other roads in relations to local conditions and cost of construction, illustrated by diagrams; economics of good roads; bridges on country roads, best and cheapest structures, sizes of timber; graphical methods of determining strains; drainage, best European practice with applications to conditions of climate and soil here, simple methods of leveling for drains.

GEOLOGY, (6).

By Professor Frank L. Nason, A.M.

The formation of the world, its crust, ocean basins, mountains, sedimentary deposits, rocks; succession of life, fossil animals and plants; volcanoes and earthquakes; how minerals are brought within reach of man; water, hot and cold springs, alluvium, deltas, flood-plains, ice, glaciers, moraines, etc.; formation of soils, their composition and use; inorganic matter as food and in the arts.

The Fine Arts.

GREEK, HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ART.

By Professor Edgar S. Shumway, Ph.D.

1. Archaic Greek art-the temple and marble sculpture; the riper archaic. 2. Period of the great masters-(a) The dawn-Pythagoras, Myron. (b) Epoch of Pheidias-the art of Pheidias, the Parthenon and the Zeus of Olympia, the Theseion, the Erectheion, the temple of Nike, the art of Polykleitos. (c) Epoch of the Corinthian style-Paionios, Kephisodotos. (d) Epoch of Praxiteles-the art of Praxiteles, of Skopas, ethical pathos, the Mausoleum, the Niobids, the art of Lysippos, idealizing portraiture. 3. Hellenistic art-Pergamon, Rhodes, Samothrace, proportions, heads, drapery, portraiture, athletes, barbarians, children, physical pathos, the gigantomachy of Pergamon. 4. Roman art-(a) The last century of the Republic. (b) The Empire.

OLD ITALIAN AND MODERN FRENCH ART, (13).

By Professor John C. Van Dyke, L.H.D.

Early Christian and Medieval painting; Romanesque and Gothic painting; Early Renaissance-the Florentines; the Umbrians, Bolognese and Paduans; High Renaissance-the great Florentines, Bartolommeo and Albertinelli, Michael Angelo and Raphael, Giulio Romano and the Roman school; Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto and Correggio-the early Venetians; the great Venetians, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Paolo VeroneseDecadence in Italy and rise of French painting; Classicists of the First Empire; Romanticists and New-Greeks; Realists and Naturalists-peasant painters; the figure under the Semi-Classicists and history painters.

History.

THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN HISTORY,

By Professor Edward L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

This course is a study of the Renaissance and Reformation periods. The rise of the spirit of liberty and individualism; the revival of learning and the delight in beauty, manifesting itself in the Renaissance of painting, sculpture and architecture; the invention of printing; the great voyages and discoveries; the formation of modern nationalities; the beginnings of the modern physical sciences. The Renaissance and Reformation were closely related. The latter will be studied from the religious, political and social standpoint. The sources for the history of the period will be studied so far as is possible.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,

By Professor Edward L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

The Revolution will be studied in its relation to France and to the other European States. Attention will be directed to its causes, remote and immediate; to the course of affairs from the opening of the States General, through the Reign of Terror; to the rise of Napoleon and to his career as affecting society; the politics and the geography of Europe; to the men, measures, and particularly Constitutions of France through a quarter of a century.

THE FORMATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS A NATION,

By Professor Edward L. Stevenson, Ph.D.

The course will consider the causes tending to produce union among the American Colonies, the rise of the national idea, the formation of the Constitution, the development of the nation during the first twenty-five years of its existence. It will also be a study of prominent men and their measures contributing to the establishment of the Constitution.