It is thus seen that in addition to the usual regulations of a sanitary nature established by all educational institutions, the lawmakers of Iowa have enacted this stringent law for the purpose of protecting the students of this institution against those dangerous, and often fatal temptations to whose dreadful influences they are so frequently subjected. This law has the hearty approval of our citizens, and its violations if any are of a covert nature. We regret that want of space forbids the insertion here of many other facts, of a statistical sort, and others, relating to the course of experiments already inaugurated at the college farm, and their promised results as indicated by the reports of the several departments. A chapter also on the government, police regulation, and general management of the College and Farm would be highly instructive, and of great interest, not only to those who contemplate availing themselves of the advantages offered by the institution, but to the general reader. Those, into whose hands this little work may fall, and who desire information in detail on the subjects referred to, can, by addressing the Secretary of the Faculty, procure copy of the Collage Annual for 1871. We append further extracts from that work, of a general interest, mainly with a view to show forth the present condition of the institution. We commence with the

EXPERIMENTAL FARM.

“The farm originally purchased for the use of the Agricultural College, comprises six hundred and forty-eight acres, and furnishes a great variety of soils for different experiments. It is watered on the east side by Squaw creek, and by Clear creek on the north; and near the center are two never, failing springs of pure water. On three sides, east, north, and west, the farm is bordered by groves of timber, embracing in all one hundred and sixty acres of the finest woodland. The entire farm is fenced; about three hundred acres are under the plow, and are cultivated by the labor of students. By vote of the Board of Trustees, May 1870, an addition of one hundred and ninety acres, lying north of the farm, has lately been purchased. This tract will supply grazing for the stock, which must largely increase to answer the necessities of the College.”

The design of the State, as indicated by the action of the Legislature, is to enlarge and multiply the College buildings proper, and also add to the general facilities for experimenting in all those branches of education in any manner relating to farm culture. These improvements will be made from year to year, no doubt as fast as possible, having due regard to the economical expenditure of appropriations made for this object. The day is long passed, when the institution itself can be denominated experimental, however the enterprise might have been regarded at the outset. The policy now is to lay foundation walls sufficiently broad, and thereon as time passes, erect such superstructures as shall be a credit and source of pride years hence to the citizens of our rapidly growing commonwealth. We insert here the following from the College Annual.

COLLEGE BUILDINGS.

“The main College Building which contains the dormitories, recitation rooms, chapel, library, museum, &c., &c., is one hundred and fifty-seven, by sixty-one feet on the ground, and four stories high, with a basement for dining-room, kitchen, store-rooms, &c., &c. It is located in the center of an enclosure of one hundred and ninety acres, which contains the vegetable garden, vineyard, orchard, nursery, ornamental grounds, and various buildings belonging to the College. Two new wings of the main building, for which the last legislature appropriated fifty thousand dollars, are being constructed, and will be ready for occupation in the spring of 1872. The present building supplies dormitories for a hundred and sixty students. When the wings are added it will accommodate two hundred and twenty.

West of the college building are the Work Shop, and Laboratory; the former a wooden building furnished with suitable tools, and containing a steam engine which drives various machines for laundry and other purposes; the latter a brick structure sixty by thirty feet, with one story for students in analytical chemistry, and a basement which furnishes apparatus and lecture rooms, for general chemistry and physics. Southward from the college at proper distances from each other, are three professor's houses built of brick, one in process of construction for Prof. Anthony, the other two being the residences of Prof. Jones and the President.