1891.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 4. 247 



Present Farm Management. 



The form is under the general management of Prof. Wm. 

 P. Brooks (the professor of agriculture), with Mr. F. S. 

 Cooley superintendent. Mr. Cooley is a native of Sunder- 

 land and a graduate of the college in the class of 1888, and 

 began his duties in the capacity of superintendent last 

 April. Your committee wish to acknowledge his attentions 

 in conducting them over the large tract of territory embraced 

 in the farm, during their inspection of the crops and stock. 

 On our visit to the college in June your committee found 

 under cultivation about twenty acres of corn (fourteen acres 

 of field corn and six ensilage), six acres of oats, six acres 

 of rye, two acres of beets, with such other vegetable crops 

 as are necessary or profitable, all in good condition. Six- 

 teen acres of pasture land were broken up last year. 

 Ten of it are now devoted to corn, and six to oats ; about 

 one hundred acres in grass were looking well. The hay 

 crop, it was estimated, would reach nearly two hundred tons, 

 and there was a fair prospect of from seventy-five to one 

 hundred tons of ensilage. In August, 1889, a system of 

 drainage was begun to improve a tract of land of about 

 thirty acres, and about five and a half miles are already laid. 

 On this important and improved method of farm work the 

 students have tho benefit of both theory and practice. We 

 found at this visit in June six students employed on the 

 farm proper, and some eight or ten at the plant house. In 

 speaking of the great task of underdraining this thirty-acre 

 lot, Professor Brooks says, " Very much of the ditching for 

 this work has been done by the students working under the 

 provision of the labor fund, but for which our operations 

 must have been far less extensive." 



Buildings. 



Most of the college buildings originally erected, having 

 had their day of usefulness, have given place to new and 

 more commodious structures, which are finely situated, 

 occupying a commanding site, from which point the scenic 

 aspect of the town and its surroundings is very beautiful, 

 being diversified by valleys, plains and swelling eminences, 



