144 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



give us for the year a profit of $200.00 at least, if tlie accouut were to contiaue 

 open for the full year, or to Dec. 1 st. 



The College account includes all labor performed for the College in improve- 

 ment of grounds, draining, etc., etc., not included in regular farm labor, and 

 hence not included in the Farm Department regular account. The amount 

 appears as Bills Receivable in the Secretary's Report of farm receipts and dis- 

 bursements. In the early part of the year a system of drains Avas suryed on the 

 lawns near the new houses. These drains were G,2S1 feet in continous length 

 using as an outlet, an old four inch drain that was laid in the old pear orchard, 

 and Avhich reached the river through the low ground and a small ravine south 

 of the new houses. 



The cost Avas as follows : 



Tile - ---- -- $74 59 



Labor - - - - - - 425 01 



Crock for Silt basin 1 00 



Brick and cement - 75 



Lumber for box - -- - 30 



8501 65 



The grading was carried on near the new houses and the President's house at 

 a cost of labor for the year of S450.97. For compost drawn, GO loads costing 

 $15.00, the labor of drawing and spreading being charged in with tlie above 

 labor. Total expense, 8465.97. 



There Avas expended in 1875 $210.91 for the same object, making a total of 

 $676.88 expended on the grade to Sept. 30, 1876. 



The portion north of the barns Avas sown to Avheat, the seed being charged to 

 the College account, and the College account credited with the area soAvn at $10 

 per acre. 



The front drain (350 ft.) is laid from the base of the hill in the road, and is 

 for the purpose of carrying off the surplus Avater of that slope Avithout having 

 an open gutter. The Avater is to run into a silt-basin or trap Avith an opening 

 east, into a Avell that is filled Avith loose s-tones, for the purpose of catching any 

 loose dirt that may wash doAvn and thus prcA^eut the stoi:)ping up of the drain. 



The cost is this : 



350 feet 5 inch tile, @ 3f cents $13 13 



Crock - -- — 1 68 



Lumber - - 30 



Brick and cement 1 00 



Labor (includes stone outlet) 18 60 



$34 71 



The cost of the drains in fields No. 3 and 5 belongs to the College account. 

 These drains are not completed, but when completed Avill measure of continu- 

 ous length, 4,185 feet, of Avhich 965 feet consists of a six inch main drain, 

 Avhich can be used for more drainage in both fields by simply continuing the 

 laterals from joints already laid in. 



The cost to date is this : 



