432 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



EEPORT OF J. W. CLARK, 



Farm Superintendent. 



President James C. Greenodgh. 



Sir : — I have the honor to submit my report of farm 

 pe rations since April 1st, 1883. During the past year the 

 farm was under the control of Mr. D. H. Tillson until April 

 1st, when it came under its present management. The plans 

 for the season had been formed in part, so that little change 

 was made in the general work of the farm ; but from the 

 first the aim has been to systematize the work so that it 

 might be done with the least possible expense. In caring 

 for the stock it has been insisted on that it should be done 

 with regularity and by competent men, which shows a marked 

 improvement in both the yield of milk and the condition of 

 stock. A careful record of the number of pounds of milk 

 given by each cow has been kept, and such as do not prove 

 themselves profitable have been or will be disposed of just 

 as soon as they do not pay for the food consumed ; this being 

 the only way that stock can be kept with profit. The board- 

 ing-house has been supplied with milk, and some sold to 

 families living near the farm ; the remainder has been set 

 and the cream sent to Amherst Creamery, which is found 

 more profitable than making butter on the farm. 



The crops grown the past season have been : corn, twelve 

 acres ; potatoes, four acres ; fodder corn, one acre ; carrots, 

 one and one-half acres ; mangels, one acre ; Swedish turnips, 

 one-half acre ; buckwheat, six acres ; wheat, two and one- 

 half acres ; rye, ten acres. The corn was so injured by the 

 frost that not more than half a crop of sound corn was bar- 



