78 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



has recently set apart the old library room in College Hall for this purpose. 

 It is hojied that, this can be so fitted up and arranged as to meet the require- 

 ments of the department in this particular. 



DONATION'S TO THK FARM DEPARTMENT, 1881, 1882. 



S. N. Fox, St. Louis, Mo.: 



Potato Hug Exterminator. 

 Oliver & Son, South Bend, Ind. : 



Two Oliver Cliilled Plows, complete. 

 Gale Manufacturing Co., Albion, Mich. : 



One Gale Three-Horse Plow, complete. 

 Prof. W, Lazknby, Columbus, 0. : 



12 Varieties Winter Wheat. 

 I^ational Department Agriculture, Washington, U. C. : 



6 Varieties Winter Wheat. 

 •George Stuart, Grand Blanc, Mich.: 



1 Pair Jersey Red Pigs. 

 Ann Arbor Patent "Whiffletree Co., Ann Arbor, Mich. : 



Plow Harness and Wiiiffletrees, for plowing orchard. 

 C. Hills, Delaware, Ohio: 



Ohio Short Horn Record. Vols. 1 and 2. ^ 



James Buckingham, Zanesville, Ohio: 



Devon Record. Vol. 1. 

 Ayrshire Breeders' Association: 



Ayrsliire Record. Vol. 3. 

 Hon. H. G. Wells, Kalamazoo, Mich. : 



Jersey Cows, Sketch of. 



Practical Farmers. Vol. 1. 

 "W. K. Sexton, Howell, Mich. : 



Holstein Cattle, Sketch of. 

 J. R. King, Meridian: 



Machine for Raising Buildings, Photograph of 



student labor. 



This problem has engrossed much of my attention, for it is one of the great 

 ■questions in this department. Our College has been almost, if notquite alone, 

 in maintaining a distinctive labor system, that makes it compulsory upon all 

 students to devote three hours of each afternoon to labor upon tiie farm or 

 garden. Otiier colleges have adopted this system, but have found so many 

 difficulties in the adjustment and supervision of student labor that they have 

 given it up after a brief trial. True to the spirit of its founders, and I believe 

 in accord with the public sentiment in our state, those in charge of this Col- 

 lege have steadily persisted in holding to the grand idea that the practical and 

 the theoretical of agriculture shall here go hand in hand ; but while this is 

 true, it by no tneans follows that the difficulties have all vanished after the 

 experience of more than a score of years. How to manage this large force of 

 students, for this brief time each day, with the least possible loss (they cannot 

 by any management be handled with profit to the departments), and so that 

 they shall retain their sympathy with labor and the laborer, gain correct 

 notions of farm methods, economy and practice is the problem which meets us 

 ■daily. 



