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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LAND. 



TABLE No. 2. — Showing by Counties the Amount of Forfeited Agricultural College Land 

 Sold during the Year ending September 30, 18S3. 



Table showing by counties the number of acres of Agricultural College 

 lands subject to entry November 1st, 1883. 



Name of County. No. of Acres. 



Alcona 22,240.67 



Alpena - 840.00 



Antrim 3,320.93 



Benzie 4,400.00 



Charlevoix 3,524. 98 



Cheboygan.. 5,408.76 



Grand Traverse 520.00 



Iosco 20,874.97 



Kal kaska 1, 080. 68 



Manistee 6,280.00 



Missaukee 799.64 



Montmorency..- 7,985.90 



Oscoda \ - 15,284.07 



Otsego 3,833.59 



Presque Isle 400.00 



Wexford 23,480.00 



Total 126,274.19 



BOUNTY ON SORGHUM SUGAR. 



Mr. Daniel Root, of Hudson, Mich., sent me the following statement 

 regarding the manufacture of sugar from sorghum cane : 



In the year 1882, about the middle of May, I planted twenty acres of land 

 to early amber cane, in check rows three and a half feet apart. I cultivated 

 it the same as for corn, without any extra fertilizer. On the twentieth of 

 September I commenced to harvest and work up the crop. I used a good 



