8 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The dwelling-house occupied by the farmer, as well as the 

 principal barn and the sheds, have been kept in good repair. 

 No alterations of any consequence have been made in these 

 buildings. The contemplated changes are confined to the barn ; 

 they are of no particular importance as far as expenses are con- 

 cerned, and may be attended to whenever circumstances render 

 it advisable. 



The entire expenses, arising from the increase and the 

 improvement of farm buildings, have been paid from the 

 regular annual income of the Station. 



The work in the field has been on a more extensive scale 

 than in any preceding year, for new lands have been added to 

 those occupied during the past. The grounds assigned to the 

 Station at the beginning of its existence consisted of two fields 

 situated at some distance from each other. One field, about 

 three acres in size, which had been used for a series of years 

 for experiments with fruit, was returned three years ago 

 to the College. The other, which comprises an area of 17.72 

 acres, has remained ever .since under the control of the Sta- 

 tion. Upon these grounds are located all buildings and experi- 

 mental fields described in this and in the three preceding annual 

 reports. 



The new lands added during the past season, in consequence 

 of an agreement between the Board of Trustees of the State 

 Agricultural College and the Board of Control of the State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, consists of twenty acres of 

 unimproved grass land and of about ten acres of wood-land. 

 The entire field is a part of the western slope of a prominent 

 and extended elevation, covered with a dense natural forest 

 growth. The wood-land assigned to the Station stretches along 

 the western termination of the grove ; it reaches to the crest of 

 the hill, and has been secured to enable the control of the water- 

 shed towards the adjoining lower grounds. Three thousand and 

 eight hundred feet of drain tiles have been laid to improve the 

 growth on the lowlands. Twelve acres of the old grass land 

 have been turned over to renovate the soil durinof the comino: 

 season by drill cultivation of suitable crops. It is proposed, 

 subsequently, to turn the more elevated portion of these lands 

 to account for experiments with fruit trees, and to raise upon 



