156 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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the bottom of a shutc, all the corn above, in the crib, must be moved and, with 

 such movement of the corn, it is claimed by those -who have tried it, tliat ver- 

 min are very effectually driven from the crib — tiiat they will not nest and stay 

 wiiere their arrangements are disturbed every week. 



The corn is easily loaded under cover in the drive way and moved to any 

 point where wanted for use, or to the granary for grinding. 



The doors to the drive way arc G feet wide and are upon rollers, opening each 

 way, and when open just cover the space to the outside of the building allotted 

 to cribs. This enables the doors to be thrown open to drive through, or they 

 may be left open for purpose of better ventilation of the interior, without any 

 danger of doors being torn off or being otherwise injured, as they are entirely 

 out of the way. The drive-way is planked, and may serve to store some of the 

 larger farm implements when not in immediate use for drive-way, while the 

 upper floor can be used for smaller implements if not used for corn. 



The cost of construction, with one coat of paint, is as follows : 



To mason work on foundation $12 94 



lime - 4 00 



lumber 194 CG 



paint and oil - 7 00 



mechanic's labor 74 00 



student " 39 72 



one window, 3 sash, glazed, 12 by 14 1 75 



hardware, nails, etc — 18 19 



men and team labor, hauling stone and grading for foundation,.. 24 30 



freight on lumber from Coral 39 64 



$417 00 



There were 10 perch of stone used of those tliat were on hand, worth 87|- 

 cents per perch. 



The lumber was purchased by the car-load at Coral, Montcalm county, and 

 thus a saving of from three to four dollars per M. was made on the material. 

 The students have i)erforn)ed 49G| hours' labor on the building, under the 

 charge of the mechanic. The building was some larger than will be essential 

 at present, but when three or four ricw fields are brought under cultivation, as 

 they soon will be, all the room will be needed, and perhaps more. 



EXPERIMENTS — WHEAT. 



In my report as Professor, in 1877, I mentioned the fact that I had sown 

 thirty varieties of wheat, for experimental and educational purposes. These 

 plats were noticed for work that the Hessian lly had done, and I do not know 

 as I can better give the result than to copy the article entire, as written by me 

 in July and published in several of the State papers. 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE WORK. 

 EXPERIMENTAL WHEATS AND THE HESSIAN FLY. 



In 1876, the Agricultural College received (too late for sowing) several va- 

 rieties of wheat from David Landreth and Sons, Philadelpliia. 



These were sown in field No. 2 on the farm, September 14-1 G, 1877, this 

 field lying beside the Lansing and Howell Gravel road. The west portion was 

 sown to Arnold's Gold Medal, while the eastern portion of the field was sown 



