26 ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
pen, stone root cellar, hot house, blacksmith shop, ice house, 
stone milk house and well, with water to all the buildings. 
There are 2,276 rods of fencing on the farm, and the amount 
of land under cultivation in 1903 is 11234 acres, of which 
60% acres were cleared when the farm was acquired and 52%4 
acres since the state has managed it. In 1903, about four acres 
additional was stumped and planted to potatoes. The system 
of hog pastures was completed and fenced with woven wire. 
This, with the sheep pasture lots, gives a complete rotation of 
pastures for hogs and sheep. 
Field experiments are giving more and more useful results 
each year. The twenty-four permanent rotation plots, which 
illustrate the effect upon the soil of as many different plans of 
cropping, both good and poor, are beginning to show effects 
in yields, which will become more and more pronounced from 
now on. The station is doing a valuable work with potatoes, 
of which nearly one hundred varieties were tested in 1903, both 
for yield and quality. Strains of the same variety from differ- 
ent sources were also planted, and showed great difference in 
yield. An original method by Herman H. Chapman, of cor- 
rection of the yields of potato plots, so as to eliminate the 
difference caused by varying soil conditions among the plots 
was followed with good results. The new variety test of oats 
for the selection of a new kind for distribution is in its third 
year. Oats are by far the most important grain crop, and 
yield is the chief point considered. Variety tests of clovers 
and grasses for meadow and pasture, and tests of the absolute 
and relative amount of timothy and clover seed to sow, gave 
instructive results. 
A new experiment in changing seed oats from one locality 
to another is in its second year, and is planned in such a way 
as to secure accurate and effectual knowledge on this subject. 
lodder for stock feeding again demonstrated its usefulness, 
and the test made as to time of sowing, kinds, amounts and 
methods of sowing, clearly indicated the proper course to pur- 
sue for this locality. Corn for ears did not ripen. 
Many other but less important lines of experiment work 
were conducted, as tests of wheat and barley, millet, peas and 
beans, and garden vegetables. Small fruits were uniformly 
