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European larch, at St. John's University, CoUegeville. 



building, and gives a good chance for the young students to work 

 off their superfluous energy. Outside are tennis courts and cro- 

 quet grounds. The farm is so rough and rolling that much 

 of it must continue to remain in timber. There is an excel- 

 lent barn and carriage house and good buildings for chickens and 

 hogs. I learned that they milked thirty-six cows, and often had as 

 many as 150 hogs and 1,000 or more chickens. They have their 

 own meat house and meat curing rooms, electric lighting and heat- 



