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farm by the increased amount of manure made ; for the more 

 stock kept, the more manure, and the more manure the 

 greater will be the crops, and the larger the crops the more 

 stock can be kept. The milk can be set and the cream 

 taken every day by the Creamery Association, netting about 

 2^ cents per quart for the milk set, and the skim-milk can 

 be fed to swine and young stock ; in this way returning 

 nearly all of the valuable constituents of the food back 

 to the farm, making it better and more productive each 

 year. 



Another need of the farm is suitable shed-room for the 

 wagons and carts where it will be convenient, that all such 

 property may be housed when not in actual use, and not be 

 exposed to the weather as was the case the past summer. If 

 the shed which now extends across the south side of the 

 barn-yard were moved so as to form a continuation of the 

 shed on the west side of the yard, a portion of it converted 

 into a place for storing wagons, carts, etc., much space 

 which is now of little use could be made valuable, and the 

 barn-yard which is now nearly ruined by this shed, shutting 

 out the sunshine, would be made comfortable during the 

 winter months. One end of the shed should be made into a 

 tenement for the help, and the farm be saved the expense of 

 hiring a tenement for the men, off the farm. The Agricul- 

 tural Department of the college needs more money than any 

 other branch of the institution, to place it on a level with 

 the other departments. It has always been compelled to 

 take a secondary place in importance, but the time has come 

 when it should rank second to none, and money should be 

 given for a building, to be known as the Agricultural Hall, 

 where different kinds of farm produce and implements can 

 be brought together to be used for illustrations. The other 

 departments of the institution have their collections to aid 

 them in explaining or applying the subjects taught, and why 

 not the agricultural ? for a more useful and interesting col- 

 lection could not be brought together than one composed of 

 agricultural products and implements. 



The farm account from April 1st, 1883, to Jan. 1st, 1884, 

 without giving the farm credit for the improvement made in 



