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lege and the station, embraces eighty acres of plow land 

 and twenty of permanent pastures. Three and one-half acres of 

 ground are laid out in twenty plots of one-tenth, twenty of 

 one-twentieth, and twenty of one-fortieth acre each. These have 

 been devoted to conducting experiments in various modes of 

 culture of wheat, oats, corn, and clovers, and to testing of varie- 

 ties. Of necessity, these investigations will have to be continued 

 for several years before any reliable results can be reached. 

 Field experiments are so difficult to perform on account of vary- 

 ing seasons and soil, that many of them reveal nothing of im- 

 portance. 



The general farm is used as occasion demands for making ex- 

 periments on a larger scale than can be conducted on small plots ; 

 it has been found that some lines of experiment conducted on a 

 large scale, are quite as helpful to the student in agriculture, as to 

 the station. 



Farm Buildings. — The farm barn (Plate VI,) was built in 1879, 

 with the exception of an addition 30 by 40 feet, erected this year, 

 is 160 by 104 feet, exclusive of a thirty-foot ice house which is at- 

 tached to it. The lower story is nine feet high and is surmounted, 

 except the recent addition, with posts twenty-four feet long at the 

 sides and thirty-two feet at the gables. 



The lower story contains a piggery, two covered yards, engine 

 and boiler room, root cellar, milk delivery room, platform scales,, 

 and accommodations for forty head of cattle. 



The second story provides for farm tools and machinery, threshed 

 grain, meal and bran, carriages and wagons, an office, and room 

 for washing carriages and slaughtering and dissecting small ani- 

 mals, and stabling for twenty horses. 



The third story provides room for one hundred tons of hay, fif- 

 teen hundred bushels of unthreshed grain, and stationary thresh- 

 er, storage and repair room, corn cribs, and quarters for one hun- 

 dred and fifty head of sheep. 



The Dairy-House, which was constructed a year previous to the 

 reorganization of the station, has been enlarged and furnished 

 with additional appliances for experimental work. The present 

 structure is 24 by 30 feet, one and one-half stories high, and con- 

 tains, in addition to the facilitiesprovidedin the first structure for 

 setting milk by the various systems and the manufacture of but- 



