18 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 



For 1S84— 



Current expenses 88.385 00 



One-half theextras 12.22(5 00 



For mechanical department 1,800 00 $22,411 00 



SUPPLEMENTARY STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARY. 



At the close of the fiscal year all bills of the several departments rendered 

 to the Secretary were paid. Of the balance on hand, 8?,G26.23, only 

 $4,822.50 is available for the current expenses of the institution, the rest 

 being unexpended balances of special appropriations. 



The amount appropriated by the Legislature of 1881 for current expenses 

 has all been drawn from the State Treasury. The amount on hand will be 

 barely adequate to meet tlie wants of the Institution during the remainder of 

 the calendar year. 



The salaries of the oflScers and employes of the College are as follows: 



President, $3,000; secretary, $1,500; six professors, $1,800 each; one at 

 $1,200; one assistant in chemistry, $800; one instructor, $600; superintend- 

 ent of horticultural department, $1,200; gardener, $743; farm foreman, 

 $600 ; steward, $C00. The two last named have theii* board in addition to the 

 above. 



The buildings for which appropriations were made by the Legislature of 

 1881 have all been completed and are now occupied. With all of them, ou 

 account of high prices, the cost has been slightly in excess of the amount 

 appropriated for their construction. This excess had to be paid out of the 

 current expense fund. 



The Board have felt for some time that to perpetuate and keep extending 

 the system of putting a boiler and furnace into each of the principal build- 

 ings was exceedingly undesirable. Rather than do this with the new library 

 and museum building they undertook, with what funds they could make 

 available for that purpose, to make a change in the arrangements for steam 

 heating. The boilers formerly used in the two large dormitory halls were sold and 

 removed. Four new boilers were purchased and set in a temporary house for 

 their protection, and from this boiler house underground piping was laid to the 

 two dormitory halls, the library and museum building, and the chemical labora- 

 tory. Tins change has given us a more convenient and effective system of 

 heating, and greatly lessens the danger of loss by fire to buildings that have 

 cost the State one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars for their con- 

 struction, and also to the large amount of valuable property which they 

 contain. 



COLLEGE LANDS. 



Through the courtesy of the Commissioner of the State Land Office we are 

 enabled to publish the following tables giving a detailed account of the sales 

 of college lands during the two years covered by this report; also the number 

 of acres of these lands yet unsold, and tlie counties in which they are located. 

 Persons desiring information regarding their price, or other conditions of 

 sale, should address their communications to the Commissioner of the State 

 Land Office, Lansing, Mich. 



