264 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



from east to west underlaid with stone and covered with gravel. This 

 garden, which contains, without the paths, two and nine-tenths acres, 

 or in all, three acres, has been all drained as follows : on the ground 

 north of the wide passage way they have been laid thirty inches deep, 

 and with a fall of two to three feet in twenty-two rods, and twenty- 

 three and a half feet distance. Those south of the large gate-way 

 are twenty-eight feet distance and forty-two inches deep. A 

 description of this soil as it was found v\'hile trenching, will be 

 annexed to this report for future reference, with a view to witness 

 with accuracy the effect of deep and shallow draining in different 

 soils, as some of this garden is of a fine sandy loam, while a portion 

 is of coarse gravel. It will require about $50 in labor to finish this 

 garden. Your committee have agreed to have a wall laid with stone 

 taken from front of the farm-house, laid on the east line of the tool- 

 house. When this work, as well as that in front of the farm-house 

 shall have been completed, we may say that some progress has been 

 aiade in permanent improvements, never to be done again ; but while 

 they shall be approved, they will, we trust, be admired for time to 

 come, advising observers what may be done or omitted on a large or 

 small scale, in thorough draining or trenching of land. 



B. V. French. 

 Sam'l Chandler. 



At the eame meeting, also, the Committee on Crops and 

 Fertilizers, consisting of Messrs. Wilder and Bartlett, to whom 

 was intrusted the entire direction of this de^Dartment, jiresented 

 the following 



REPORT: 



In the spring the committee gave Dea. White, the farmer, specific 

 directions as to the crops and the system of cultivation to be adopted. 

 Herewith we subjoin a statement of the process, and the amount of 

 the products harvested. 



Before proceeding further, it is proper to remark, that much embar- 

 rassment has been experienced by the Board in consequence of the 

 inadequate appropriation made by the legislature for the well-con- 

 ducting of the farm, or for the interest — as it seems to the Committee 

 — of the Commonwealth. It should also be borne in mind that by 

 the contract between the Trustees and the Board, the latter are under 

 obligation to employ a large number of the boys of the State Reform 



