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room with accommodations for 350 persons at one time and a dormi- 

 tory sufficient for 70 students. The dairy hall has been doubled in 

 size, making- it the most complete in appointments and the larg^est 

 building- for dairy instruction in the country, if not in the world. 

 It contains three large class rooms, a dairy laboratory, machine 

 cheese and butter rooms, office, etc. A sheep barn, swine barn, 

 poultry house and blacksmith shop have also been erected. Besides 

 these improveinents, a new sewer has been laid, water pipes have 

 been carried into the garden for irrigating purposes, and all wooden 

 buildings have been painted; a large amount of grading- has been 

 done around the new buildings, some drives have been changed, 

 and some new ones laid out, and a large amount of ground prepared 

 for planting in the spring. 



Some changes have been made in the facultj' of the school of 

 agriculture. Lieutenant H. A. Leouhaeuser has succeeded to the 

 position of instructor in militarj^ tactics; Professor A.D.Gaines has 

 become instructor in English, and Professor Wm. Boss, instructor 

 in carpentering. Owing to the growth of the school. Professor 

 Aldrich has been obliged to give up teaching carpentry and to 

 confine his labors to teaching drawing-, and your humble servant 

 has given up the teaching of botany to confine his labors to teach- 

 ing horticulture and fore8tr3\ 



Publications: — There have been several bulletins issued hy the 

 experiment station, two of which (numbers 38 and 39) were from the 

 division of horticulture. Number 38 is a twent}^ page report on 

 "Garden Tillage and Implements." Number 39 is a report on 

 "Potatoes: — Varietj' Tests, Potato Scab, Blight and Internal Brown 

 Rot; Tomatoes: — Varietj" Tests, Training; Strawberries: — Variety 

 Tests; Apple-Tree Sun-Scald; Raspberries:— Variety Tests, Cane 

 Rust." Each of these bulletins is profusely illustrated with half- 

 tones and hand drawn figures. 



APPLES. 



While no detailed report has been published on the subject of 

 apples by this division for several years, yet it is a subject that has 

 been and is now being carefull}' investigated here I exjoect the 

 coming season to publish a special bulletin on the behavior of 

 apples in the various sections of Minnesota. There is much that 

 is very encouraging for the growing of certain varieties of this fruit 

 in large areas of this state. The list of apples growing on the 

 university farm is large and embraces about all the known promis- 

 ing named sorts from Europe as well as a long list of promising- 

 seedlings of Northwestern origin. We have also about 700 seed- 

 lings from the best Russian sorts, which we dug last fall, and 

 which are intended for planting out permanently for trial the coming 

 spring, 



PLUMS. 



Plums produced heavily in ISg.!, but owing to the weather in 

 August and September the}' did not fill out well. Fearing the 

 results of this dry weather, we watered copiously twenty or more 



