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The cost of clearing this land has varied from twenty to fifty dollars 

 an acre depending' largely on whether the land had previously grown 

 hardwood, or cedar and tamarack. 



FENCING. 



Three and one-half miles of woven wire fence was erected. This com- 

 pletely incloses the Station land and the fields that are now nnder cul- 

 tivation. The road fence in front of the Stati'on buildings was torn down 

 and new fence built. The old barnyard fences were torn out and replaced 

 by new ones. 



I'AINTING. 



The cro|)S exi)erimenter\s Inmse and the superintendent'^ house have 

 been painted in the past j'ear and some interior decorating done to these 

 houses, and also the Iboarding house and office. 



Bl'ILDINGS. 



Tlie manure ])it has been completed and an inclosed porch built on the 

 sn]»crintendent's house. 



MACHINERY. 



Koine new machinery has been added to the equipment. Among these 

 is a side delivery lake, higli pressure S])ray rig, pea thresher, corn 

 binder and several smaller pieces. 



CRors. 



The croips of 1021 were very light owing to the dry weather and the 

 gras.sho])pers. Prospects this year however, are much brighter as the 

 hay croj) is heavy and all other crops are showing up especiall}' well with 

 the exception of corn and the more delicate garden crops. 



A large percentage of the land in small grains was used for increase 

 fields of pedigreed seed grain. Fourteen acres were i)ut into sunflowers 

 this year so that we would have i)lenty for silage and for experimental 

 work with dry fodder. About twelve tons of di*y sunflower fodder was 

 fed last year to sheep with fairly good results and this year it is planned 

 to carry on experimental work in feeding the same. 



SHEEP. 



We now have 523 sheep and lambs in the flock of pure bred Rambouil- 

 let, Hampshire and Shropshire breeds and grades and cross breeds of the 

 same. Each individual is numbered and records are kept of the weight 

 of lamb at birth also at shipj)ing time, weight of fleece and number of 

 lambs produced by the ditt'erent breeds and crosses. Many of the pure 

 bred ram lambs are sold to the farmers as breeders and the grade ram 

 lambs, cull ewes and inferior pure bred lambs' are shipped to Chicago 

 for slaughter. 



DAIRY. 



We now have fourteen pure bred Holstein cows, one herd bull, three 

 bull calves, six heifer calves and six yearling heifers. Five bull calves 



