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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Annaal reports 

 of the several 

 departments to 

 be filed with 

 secretary of 

 the board. 



Agricultural 

 operations to 

 be carried ou 

 experimentally. 



What reports 

 to contain. 



Proviso. 



Grant of 

 swamp lands. 



Board may sell 

 the lands. 



Deeds thereof. 



drawn on the treasurer, as secretary of the college, and shall 

 file and preserve all vouchers, receipts, correspondence, or other 

 papers relating thereto. 



§ 5008. (3564.) Am. 1871, p. SOI, April 17, Act 180 ; 1873, p. 

 194, April 24, July 31, Act 1^5; 1875, p. 267, May 3, Aug. 3, 

 Act 221. Sec. 33. The superintendents of the farm, horticultural, 

 and other departments, the curators of the museums, and each of 

 the professors, shall make a written and detailed report of the 

 workings of their several departments annually to the president of 

 the college, which said reports shall be kept on file in the office of 

 the secretary of the State board of agriculture. Agricultural 

 operations on the farm shall be carried on experimentally. Care- 

 ful experiment shall be made annually in field crops, in keeping, 

 feeding, and fattening stock, and in the preparation and applica- 

 tion of barn-yard and commercial manures, and a detailed account 

 of them shall be published in the annual report of the board. 

 The college shall serve also as an experimental station, making 

 trial from time to time of new varieties of fruits, grains and vege- 

 tables. The reports shall contain an account of the management 

 of all the several fields, pastures, orchards, and gardens of the col- 

 lege, as designated by permanent names or numbers, and shall give 

 an account of the preparation and enriching of the land, the plant- 

 ing, cultivation, harvesting, and yield of the crops and disposition 

 of the same ; the management of the stock, Avith a careful com- 

 parison of the cost of keeping, growth, and profit of the several 

 breeds kept on the farm ; also an account of the students' labor, 

 specifying the amount used in each of the several departments of 

 the college, with other details, in such a way that the reports, as 

 issued from year to year, shall contain a continuous history of the 

 college, farm, and garden: Provided, That the State board of agri- 

 culture shall deem the same practicable or advisable. 



§ 5009. (3565.) Sec. 34. All the swamp lauds granted to the 

 State of Michigan by act of congress, approved September twenty- 

 eight, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, situate in the townships 

 of Lansing and Meridian, in the county of Ingham, and Dewitt 

 and Bath, in the county of Clinton, of which no sale has been 

 made, or for which no certificates of sale have been issued by the 

 commissioner of the land office, are hereby granted and vested 

 in the State board of agTiclture and placed in the possession of the 

 State agricultural college for the exclusive use and benefit of the 

 institution, subject only to the provisions relating to drainage and 

 reclamation of the act of congress donating the same to the State. 



§ 5010. (3566.) Sec. 35. The State board of agriculture shall 

 have authority to sell and dispose of any portions of the swamp 

 lands mentioned in the preceding section of this act, and use the 

 same, or the proceeds thereof, for the piirpose of draining, fencing 

 or in any manner improving such other portions of said lands, as 

 it may be deemed advisable to bring under a high state of cultiva- 

 tion for the promotion of the objects of the State agricultural col- 

 lege. The terms and conditions of the sale of the portions of the 

 al)ove described lands thus disposed of, shall be prescribed by the 

 State board of agriculture, and deeds of the same, executed and 



