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mencing with pasture plowed up : 1st year, corn ; 2d year, roots ; 3d year, 

 oats, harvested, and the ground sown to winter wheat, the land seeded with 

 timothy ; 4th year, the land seeded with clover, in addition, and the wheat 

 harvested ; 5th year, meadow ; 6th year, pasture. 



The fields now in this rotation are : No. 6, corn ; No. 10, roots ; No. 3, oats, 

 followed by wheat ; No. 9, wheat harvested ; No. 5, meadow ; No. 8, pasture. 

 The rotation was varied slightly in the case of No. 8, as it was mown as per 

 experiment in the history of the field, and then pastured afterward. Fields 

 No. 1, 3, 4 and 11 of the plowed fields have not been placed in the rotation as 

 yet. The remaining fields will be brought under cultivation as soon as 

 practicable, and into the rotation as soon after as will be feasible from the 

 amount of clearing that must be done. 



In regard to the stock, I recommend the purchase of another Cotswold ram, 

 and also of an Ayershire and a Devon bull, of new strains of blood for 

 breeding jjurposes. The year after, means must be taken to secure another Short 

 Horn bull. The farm department has received presents, beside those hereto- 

 fore acknowledged, of a fine Merino ram from the flock of Mr. G. W. Phillips, a 

 member of the State Board of Agriculture ; a Gale Plow, complete, from the Gale 

 Manufacturing Co. ; a "Wolverine" plow, from the Ann Arbor Agricultural 

 Works ; one-half price of Challenge Feed Mill, from the Challenge Mill Co., 

 Batavia, 111. ; a triangular hoe, from a firm in Otsego ; a set of cultivator 

 teeth for Champion Cultivator, and one-half price of the Cultivator, of Latta 

 & Shupe, Battle Creek, Mich. 



The farm departments are also under obligation to Prof. Carpenter for valua- 

 ble assistance in the laying out and platting of drains, beside the compilation 

 of valuable records pertaining to the farm and drains in a single volume to be 

 kept for future reference, and additional records from time to time as shall be 

 necessary. 



For the result of the general working of the department as regards profits, 

 etc., I refer you to the Secretary's report of farm receipts and expenditures, 

 showing a balance in favor of the farm of $990 18, which, with the difficulties 

 of tbe season and large amount of outside work, is a very satisfactory record. 



The above report I beg leave to submit as the farm department report for the 

 ten months beginning December 1, 1875, and ending September 30, 1876. 



Before closing this report I desire to express my high appreciation of the serv- 

 ices rendered by the foreman of the farm, Mr. C. L. Ingersoll, in the compil- 

 ing of this report, and in the discharge of his many and responsible duties. 

 He has exhibited much knowledge, skill and energy, and I shall gladly welcome 

 him to a position of still greater responsibility in the growing department of 

 agriculture in the College. 



A. B. GULLEY, 

 State Agricultueal College, \ Prof . of Practical Agriculture. 



Lansing, Mich., Sept. 30, 1876. 



