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since the time named, to consume the hay and fodder product 

 of the farm, quite a large part of which has been sold, and 

 a portion of the proceeds expended in purchasing stable- 

 manure at the village, or commercial fertilizers. The receipts 

 and expenditures for the farm, including the payment for 

 student-labor, show a small balance in its favor. 



Mr. D. H. Tillson, as farm-foreman, has discharged his diffi- 

 cult and responsible duties with great fidelity, and made 

 unwearied efforts to command success. As usual, the horti- 

 cultural department has been ably conducted by Professor 

 Maynard. Its business is enlarging and becoming more 

 important every year. The sale of flowers, bedding and 

 potted plants, shrubs, ornamental trees, fruit-trees, and fruits, 

 is quite large, aggregating, during the last season, about four 

 thousand dollars. What may be called the business of this 

 department is carried on at a profit, and would show a 

 decided balance in its favor ; but this balance is more than 

 consumed in the support of the Durfee Plant-House, which 

 is little but a show-house, returning small revenue, though 

 of much interest to the public, and very valuable for study 

 and instruction. For further information of this department, 

 reference is made to the annexed report of Professor May- 

 nard. During the past year there have been the following 

 changes in our corps of instructors. Professor William B. 

 Graves, who for six years occupied the chair of physics and 

 mathematics, and discharged its duties with fidelity and suc- 

 cess, resigned his position in August to take a situation at 

 Phillips Academy in Andover ; and the place has been tem- 

 porarily filled by the employment of Professor Charles L. 

 Harrington, whose course here has fully sustained his reputa- 

 tion as a successful and enthusiastic teacher. The detail 

 period of three years of Lieut. Charles Morris, as instructor 

 of military science and tactics, expired the 1st of September, 

 and he returned to his regiment : the United-States Govern- 

 ment detailed Lieut. Victor H. Bridgman to the place, and 

 he has entered upon his duties in such a manner as to give 

 bright promise of the greatest efficiency and success. These 

 new men have apparently imbibed to the full of the Agricul- 

 tural College enterprise, have harmonized perfectly with the 

 previous members of the faculty, giving their sympathy and 

 co-operation in all their trials and successes. Annexed is a 



