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superintendent of the nurseries, has kindly assumed the care 

 and management of the required farm-work of students. 

 Mr. Clark, who as a student had become familiar with this 

 exercise, has experienced no difficulty in the task, and has 

 succeeded in maintaining the system in its usual efficiency. 



Though the farm crops in certain cases have suffered 

 somewhat for want of rain, they have been generally good, 

 and of good quality. The following is the acreage and the 

 crop yield of the past year, some of it given by estimation, 

 but more bv actual weight and measure : corn, ten acres 

 on the stump pasture, yield five hundred bushels shelled 

 corn and twenty tons fodder ; sugar-beets, three acres grown 

 for the Franklin factory, yield thirty-six tons ; potatoes, four 

 acres on the light sandy loam west of the college buildings, 

 yield five hundred bushels ; oats, on land adjoining the pas- 

 ture, twenty acres, yield one thousand bushels ; rye, twelve 

 acres on the light land north of the ravine, yield two hun- 

 dred and fifty bushels ; oat and rye straw, thirty -five tons ; 

 mowing-land, seventy-five acres, yield of hay one hundred 

 and fifty tons. The apple-crop of the farm was abundant, 

 but of small market-value, and was largely fed to cattle and 

 swine, in both the raw and cooked state, and with marked 

 beneficial results in both cases. The live-stock has increased 

 in number and value, the details of which will be found in 

 the inventory of farm property annexed. 



As a purely money-making and business affair, the year's 

 operations on the farm have not been a success, though an 

 analysis of the treasurer's report will show a deficiency of 

 but from five to six hundred dollars. The management 

 of the farm for this purpose never has been ; and it is more 

 than doubtful, if all the lands in their present condition are 

 to be used for that purpose, if it ever can be. It may be 

 said with truth, perhaps, that what the farm loses the insti- 

 tution gains ; but that gives no brighter view of the farm- 

 balance as such. Though farm-lands, with all their attach- 

 ments, are absolutely essential as an illustration for a college 

 of agriculture, and make a valuable return, as do other edu- 

 cational appliances, yet their complication with school wants 

 and affairs makes it difficult, if not impossible, to manage 

 them on those strict business princijjles which are indispen- 

 sable for profit. If the prime objects of connecting farm- 



