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Board of Agriculture, two young sows of the breed that run wild 

 in the forests of the Southern States, have been procured from 

 Florida. The additions to the barn have also made it possible to 

 begin some experiments in the breeding and feeding of poultry an 

 important branch of farm economy that has as yet received but 

 little attention by experimenters. 



The season of 1890 was a disastrious one so far as securing 

 results from field experiments are concerned. The floods of the 

 spring that made it almost impossible to plant at the proper time, 

 or in a proper manner, were succeeded by a short, but severe, 

 midsummer drought, which in connection with the late and wet 

 spring, materially interfered with the development of the crops, 

 particularly corn. Consequently our reports for the year are bar- 

 ren in the line of field experiments. 



Tne details of the work in the fields and barns have been since 

 the first of July, in the hands of Mr. Clinton D. Smith, Assistant 

 in Agriculture, to whom much credit is due for careful, accurate 

 and painstaking work. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Henry. H. Wing. 



