DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 125 



Field No. 5 $6 42 



No. G - - - 1 59 



No. 7 - -- 72 GG 



No. 8 - 5 Gl 



No. 9 4 14 



No. 11 - - 32 40 



No. 12 43 34 



No. 13 - 32 99 



No. 14 85 61 



No. 15 109 3G 



Tile drains No. 2, 129 rods . 164 96 



Tile drains, Orchard, 143 rods 231 33 



Clearing swamp, Nos. 11 and 13 128 50 



Tile drains Nos. 9 and 11 23G 05 



Farm Department Account — filling muck bed, labor in lanes, on 



road, etc... 122 81 



Labor on experiments during the year 37 31 



Total $1,456 14 



This labor and material put into permanent improvements, is not shown to 

 the credit of the farm, as when once done it is considered as part of the farm, 

 aud does not appear ou inventory. 



The farm is inventoried as separate from the department, and has for some 

 time been retained at the same standard of value. 



The fields will appear in regular order. 



FIELD NO. 1. 



The east end has been turned over to the Horticultural Department by con- 

 sent of the State Board and the mutual agreement of the Superintendents of 

 the two departments. The west end, 4.22 acres, has been plowed and planted 

 to corn. The plowing was done in December, ou account of expected pressure 

 of other work in spring. 



The account of the field is as follows : 



Dr. Cr. 



To preparing ground and planting $14 24 



cultivation of crop 29 78 



seed corn 65 



permanent improvement 1 48 



By " " - $1 48 



inventory of crop at cost up to August 31st, estimating 



student's labor at 10 cents an hour 46 50 



To balance 1 S3 



$47 98 847 98 



FIELD Xo. 2 



was sown to wheat in 1877. The varieties sown were Arnold's Gold Medal and 

 the Asiatic, mentioned in a former report. These came up Avell and looked 

 finely for a few weeks ; but it soon became evident that the wheat was being 

 devoured by the Hessian fly. They worked badly in both varieties (soil sandy 

 loam), but worse in the Asiatic than in the other. 



