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samples of frosted wheat that had been placed under test, foreign 

 grains that were being tested, etc. We visited the workshop 

 where we found the boys engaged in making different articles 

 necessary upon a farm. It was evident the school was being 

 conducted in a manner to make the instruction for the farmer's 

 son as complete as possible. 



Mr. Eeeves said he had supposed on going to the station he 

 would find an institution that was just getting into working 

 order. He had understood the new school building had 

 just been erected, and supposed it was still incomplete. 

 He had been surprfced to find everything there in such 

 fine working order, and it was the most complete institution of 

 the kind in the country. Everything in the school room, work- 

 shop, greenhouse, etc., was in good working order. At the 

 barn he had been interested in examining the silo and samples 

 of food taken therefrom as well as the foods used in experimental 

 feeding. This "sauer kraut," as one of the professors called it, 

 was fed to the cattle, but it was not as sour as he had supposed. 

 It was preserved in this way and was very palatable to the live 

 stock. 



The following report was made by Prof. Green: 



CENTRAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 

 Beport of Prof. Samuel B. Green, St. Anthony Park. 



Members of the Minnesota Sorticultural Society, Ladies and Gentle- 

 men : 



I will not take your time to more than suggest some of thelines 

 of work which have been undertaken and have occupied the 

 time of my division of the experiment station the past season. 

 A full and detailed account of the work accomplished during the 

 eight months I have been in charge will be found in the report 

 of the university experiment station for the year about to close. 

 The season as a whole has been favorable to plant growth 

 here, although so much damage has resulted from early frosts in 

 the northern portions of our state. We have been somewhat 

 troubled with excessive rains but the work generally speaking 

 has been satisfactory. I have labored under the disadvantages 



