Excerpt from Record of the Alumni of the Kansas State Agricultural College The lands on the College farms were at first cultivated in'the ordinary way, but gradually more and more systematically, trials were made of fertilizers, special crops, methods of soil preparation, methods of planting, etc. The annual report for 1872 includes about twenty pages devoted to reporting the results of agricultural operations. Although efforts were made continually, it was with much difficulty that the legislature was induced to make any ap propriation even for agriculture. By the terms of the federal law all buildings must be furnished by the State, but up to 1872' nothing had been done. Bluemont College was the only building. The legislature of 1872 made an appropriation with which the stone wall enclosing the present campus was built and a barn was begun. Only one wing of this was ever completed. It was used as a barn until 1875, when it was taken for College classes. It has. Served many purposes since: General class-rooms; chapel; soc1ety hall; dormitories; residence of the professor of agriculture; quarters for departments of zoology, botany, bacteriology, and veterinary science; armory, etc. It is now used for instruction in farm mechanics, and for housing the machinery used in that work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.