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NINETEENTH ANNUAL KEPORT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, January, 1882. 



To his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council. 



The Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 in compliance with the provisions of law, herewith present 

 their annual report. During the year they and their college 

 officers have made the most strenuous efforts to continue 

 and maintain the established system in all departments, and, 

 considering the difficulties of the present situation, with a 

 good degree of success. By assigning extra work to the pro- 

 fessors, and keeping their salaries at the lowest point possible 

 without losing their services ; by refusing all appropriations 

 for investigations and improvements on the estate ; by con 

 fining all our operations to those of imperative necessity, and- 

 the practice of rigid economy in these, — we have succeeded in 

 keeping our expenses within our income, and making sundry 

 needed repairs on the buildings. The work of the farm has 

 been directed to ordinary crop operations, with the exception 

 of ploughing and reseeding some portions of the pasture for 

 the purpose of increasing the quantity and improving the 

 quality of its grasses. The area in tillage was forty-seven 

 acres : viz., Indian corn, twenty acres, yielding eighteen 

 hundred bushels of ears and forty-five tons of fodder ; r^^e, 

 twelve acres, yielding a hundred and eighty bushels of grain 

 and fifteen tons of straw ; oats, eight acres, yielding four hun- 

 dred bushels of grain and fourteen tons of straw ; potatoes, 

 four acres, yielding five hundred bushels ; turnips, one acre, 

 yielding four hundred bushels ; and two acres in cabbage and 

 other garden vegetables. Seventy-five acres were in grass, 

 yielding a hundred and sixty tons of hay; twelve acres 

 have been ploughed, and sown with winter rye for next 

 year's crop ; and forty acres were ploughed in the fall, to be 

 cropped next j^ear. The neat-stock at the present time is 

 forty-three head, included in which are two pairs of large 

 oxen, being stall-fed, and nineteen cows. There are ninety 

 swine of the Berkshire breed. The herd of cattle has nearly 

 doubled since its reduction in 1879, and is in good condition, 

 with many choice animals. It has not been sufficiently large, 



