SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



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4th. Labor on field No. 1, prepared and contemplated 

 for a garden, work done previous to Dec. 1st 



LoOO J m • • • ■ • . 



Labor since Dec. 1st, 1855, by men and teams, 

 6,400 days' work, ..... 



Powder, $4 ; repairing of tools, $2, 

 Cost of tile, and freight, .... 



2,500 tins to cover joints, .... 



Labor on lot No. 1, 

 Labor on lot No. 2, costing. 

 Labor on lot No, 3, " 

 Labor on lot No. 4, " 



$1,228 55 



$1,228 55 



495 15 



389 69 



51 15 



$2,164 54 



The getting out of stone, drawing them off and grading of the 

 ground south of the farm-house, which has long been desired, and is 

 justly charged to the account of permanent improvements, is nearly 

 finished. Labor to the amount of about $150 Avill complete this 

 work, so that it can be ploughed quite well seven inches deep or laid 

 down to a lawn which will be a beginning to a similar finish, till all 

 the ground will become a fine grass lawn ; never intending to remove 

 the stone for the plough, but to remove all unsightly objects from the 

 front of the institution to the lake. This will improve the appear- 

 ance of the farm very much. 



Amongst permanent improvements, none claims our consideration 

 more than the garden. With the advice of the Board, your committee 

 have laid out a garden, of about three acres, near the road and 

 adjoining the lane leading to the barn. This is well located ; but 

 your committee found this lot, like most of the farm, abounding io- 

 stone : these have all been removed, the ground trenched two feet in 

 depth and drained by Albany Tile, emptying into the large stone 

 drain west of the garden, and emptying into a ravine south of the 

 garden ; the loam has been carefully mixed while trenching. One 

 large cart-way has been laid out, twelve feet in width, from the road 

 through the garden, underlaid with stone and covered with gravel. 

 Round this garden and at a distance of twelve feet from the east and 

 west ends, are paths of six feet in width, leaving fine borders ; also, 

 on the north side is a large plat in Avhich we contemplate to set out 

 choice garden fruit trees, and through the garden are two paths running 



