DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 131 



Field No. 9 $51 52 



No. 10 157 77 



No. 11 138 22 



No. 12 - - 15 



Total of meu and team labor charged to farm. $1, 997 41 



Grand total of men and team labor as charged at 30 cts. per hour. $2,460 50 

 Less actual cost 2, 048 00 



Balance ^ 412 50 



Showing the actual cost of men and team labor for this year to be twenty- 

 five cents per hour nearly, or about §2.50 per day. 



The fields will be taken up in their regular order. 



Field No. 1. East end. This field, 2| acres, was in meadow, and only one 

 crop of grass was cut. It was mixture of clover and timothy. The grass was 

 cut on June 2Gth, and drawn on June 29th. The yield was' 9,680 lbs. of hay 

 of very fine quality. 



Field No. 1, west end, 5^ acres, was used for pasture for calves, and lambs 

 when taken from the ewes. The fence on east side of east end, bordering on the 

 "Marble farm," was relaid, staked and wired at a cost of $3.06. The field 

 account is 



Dk. Cr. 



To labor in haying |9 68 



By hay, 4 84-100 tons @ $8.00 $38 72 



To balance 29 04 



$58 72 $38 72 



The $3.06 for repairs of fence was charged to permanent improvement. 



Field No. 2. This field remains as it was left last year; the press of labor 

 in other places seeming to have required it. Twenty-four loads of compost were 

 drawn and spread on the sandy slope on the west side, and this with twenty-five 

 hours mowing weeds was all the out-lay. The sheep were pastured here a few 

 days in the early part of the season, but no receipts are credited. The ac- 

 count is — 



DR. CH. 



To labor... $9 41 



" compost 6 00 



By improvement of soil to balance $15 41 



$15 41 $15 41 



Field No. 3 was sown with oats. We began plowing east and west on April 21st, 

 with the soil very wet. There was at that time over an acre on the north side 

 of the field submerged. This water settled away quite rapidl}-, yet not so but 

 that when it was plowed, the water settled in the furrows at each round of the 

 plow. We finished plowing on April 27th, and then harrowed east and west, 

 then planed or smoothed north and south. Then 1,600 lbs. White Schoonen were 

 drilled in on the east side, and 977 lbs. Excelsior oats on the west side of the field, 

 using the Beckwith roller drill. After this the field was thoroughly rolled north 



